The television as we know it today was invented in 1923 by John Logie Baird, his invention iterated and combined elements of existing technology and augmented them with novel elements. After a series of demonstrations and refinements to the technology, growing public adoption, and regulatory disputes, The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was established - the exact date varies depending on where you begin counting, technically the organisation was founded in 1922 as a company rather than a corporation and covered other forms of broadcasting namely radio, but it eventually became a public body in 1927, the first public television broadcaster, now the oldest in the world.
Fast forward 98 years and we are approaching the centennial of the BBC, there are only a few thousand people still alive in the UK today who are older than the BBC - this is important to note because time is running out.
