Today in 1928, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated the first transmission of color television.
At his studios in Long Acre, London, Baird showed red and blue scarves, a U.K. policeman's helmet, a man poking his tongue out, the glowing end of a cigarette and a bunch of roses. Nature magazine reported: “Delphiniums and carnations appeared in their natural colours and a basket of strawberries showed the red fruit very clearly.”