John Logie Baird invented television in 1926 in his science lab in London.  But how did he do it?

John Logie Baird was born near Glasgow on 14 August 1888. As a young boy he put a telephone system and electric lights in his home. Imagine what he could have done on the Playstation! 

He built his first television system using a biscuit tin and a knitting needle! Yes really! This made a disc with a spiral of holes in it. As the disc revolved, the image was scanned.  By 1925 he had created a machine that converted light shone on a subject into electrical currents.  These were sent to a receiver that changed them back into a picture.

Read more about this talented scientist and his part in one of our favourite inventions here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/baird_logie.shtml

To know more about the history of television http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bluepeter/show/dyk/index_television.shtml

Did you know?  The biggest ever television set stood at a massive 24.3m high and 45.7m wide in Japan in 1985!

We have five copies of Flipside magazine to give away!!

Flipside is a magazine aimed at 11-15 year olds (don’t worry if you’re a bit younger – unless you are very afraid of sharks!) with an interest in science and technology, music and films, and sport and adventure.

You can’t buy Flipside in the shops but you can find out more about the magazine on the website here: http://www.flipside.org.uk/

To win one of the five copies, all you have to do is send an email with your name, age and address to: Hay-Wire.Clubhouse@nesta.org.uk with ‘OH FLIP!’ as the subject.

The winner will be chosen at random on Thursday 22nd September at 5pm. Good luck!

If you are still feeling a little green around the gills after doing the quiz then you won’t want to know about the horror-that-is… ‘Veggie ice cream’.  Eeauch!

Yes it’s true. Tana Ramsay, who's married to TV chef Gordon Ramsay, has developed the idea of 'ice greens' for children who don't like eating vegetables. Is there no end to the horror?  Imagine a sprout-flavoured whippy cone with a runner bean stuck in as a ’99!  Read more (if you can face it)

By the way, talking of inventions, remember our competition in the last Haywire?  We asked what you would most like to make out of chocolate and why?  It’s a chocolate invention competition. Perhaps you would like to make a chocolate pencil so that whilst you were writing away at school you could also be having a sneaky nibble.  Snigger!

We’re sure you must be bursting with ideas. And we’d love to hear them! But we reckon that sneaky computer-kid Mike Teavee must have had a go at the Haywire email system because we cannot find them! So we are terribly sorry about this.  If you entered already, would you mind sending your ideas again? And if you didn’t enter the first time then, why not give it a go? Here are the details: