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The £22,000 television . . . and it doesn’t even have a remote control
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Charities call forabanon grouse moor
hare culling
By Lynsey Bews
WILDLIFE charities have called for a three-year ban on mountain hare culling on grouse moors.
The group of ten organisations, including RSPB Scotland and the Scottish Wildlife Trust, say the animals are now being culled on a large scale across Scotland.
They want the practice to be banned until safeguards are put in place to allow sustainable management of the species and ensure international conserva- tion obligations are being met.
But the Scottish Gamekeepers Association said a ban would be ‘environmentally irresponsible’.
Mountain hares – which are often found on grouse moors and are an important source of prey for eagles – are protected under the EU’s Habitats Directive.
The organisations say culling has developed relatively recently
‘May be breach of EU obligations’
‘in the belief that it protects red grouse against the tick-borne louping ill virus, despite the lack of scientific evidence’.
Duncan Orr-Ewing from RSPB Scotland said: ‘We don’t know what impact these large scale culls are having on mountain hares’ wider conservation status, which could mean that the Scot- tish Government may be in breach of its legally binding international EU obligations to this species.’
A spokesman for the Scottish Gamekeepers’ Association said: ‘Allowing hare numbers to multi- ply uncontrolled over three years, as suggested, will have huge grazing impacts, including around forestry blocks, where culling currently takes place.
‘The numbers of tick will esca- late, endangering any bird that nests on the ground, not to men- tion the potential repercussions for human health.’
Early model: The picture appeared in the opening on the right
World changer: John Logie Baird at work
By Jonathan Brocklebank
THE inventor called it the Baird Televi- sor and, although most people scoffed, he believed it had potential.
And, notwithstanding a few improvements to the original down the years, it seems Scotsman John Logie Baird was on to something.
Now one of the earliest ‘Televisors’ – dating from a time when few could see any possible use for the machine – is expected to fetch up to £22,000 at auction.
This forerunner of the television was man-
ufactured in 1928 – two years after Logie Baird first demonstrated a working TV system – and has the serial number 258.
The wooden set has a spiral punched scanning disc which has been fully restored and still has its original tube.
That is not to say it is capable of picking up Sky or BBC channels – even with a set-top box.
However, the television, built as an item of furni- ture for well-to-do fam- ilies with deep
pockets, rep- resents a key milestone in the birth of modern mass media.
It is being auctioned off as part of a speci- ality tele- communica-
tions sale by Auction Team Breker in Cologne, Germany. The lot is one of the highlights of the
Smart TV: The Televisor has been restored
Milestones of Telecommunication sale on Saturday – and, fittingly, it uses the type of technology pio- neered by men like Logie Baird that will allow bidders to take part in the auction live from anywhere in the world.
Also going under the hammer are
the first fax machine and a proto- type colour television set.
In January 1926, Helensburgh-born Logie Baird demonstrated a viable television system before 50 scien- tists using mechanical picture scan- ning with electronic amplification at the transmitter and receiver.
The image could be sent by radio or over ordinary telephone lines, leading to the historic transatlan- tic transmissions of television from London to New York in February 1928. That year he also achieved the first television transmission to a ship in mid-Atlantic.
In 2011, a 1936 set by Logie Baird – bought for almost £100 three weeks after transmissions began – sold at Bonhams for £16,800.
The machine had a 12-inch screen contained in a walnut and mahog- any case, with the picture being reflected onto a mirror that opened from the top.
One viewer aT a Time
n The Televisor was the first receiver sold in Britain. n Around 1,000 were made by English company Ples- sey and cost about £26 – a four-figure sum today.
n The poor quality picture was tiny – little bigger
than a postage stamp – and it was impossible for more than one person to see it at a time.
n A rotating aluminium disk with square pin- holes ‘scanned’ light from a neon lamp, which varied in brightness depending on the infor-
mation transmitted by the TV station.
By Victoria Allen
Bin lorry tragedy
A FATAL Accident Inquiry into the bin lorry crash that killed six people will exam- ine whether the man behind the wheel was fit to drive.
Harry Clarke, 58, will not be prosecuted after the bin lorry he was driving ploughed into
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pedestrians in Glasgow city inquiry to focus