Scottish engineer and inventor John Logie Baird has gone down in history as a pioneer of television, who in 1926 became the first to demonstrate the televising of moving objects. Written by Nick Smith
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Here, Robin Longbottom examines how an engineer born in Keighley went on to play a crucial role in the design of battleships BEHIND St Thomas’ Church at Sutton-in-Craven is a low, unassuming memorial to John Gordon Longbottom – who died aged 54 in 1924. The inscription on it describes him as ‘Late Professor of Mechanics Royal Technical College Glasgow’. Although he was born in Keighley in 1869 he belonged to a well-established Sutton family that had lived in King’s Court, off the High Street, for some three generations. The family had been textile machine makers and mechanics since the end of the 18th century and therefore it is not surprising that John followed in his ancestors’ footsteps and went into engineering.