Scottish inventor, John Logie Baird, born in 1888, and known as the inventor of the colour television, has an extremely interesting tale to tell

in his autobiography involving the bloody thumbprint on a razor blade left by a boy who killed

himself, slitting his throat with the razor and coming back after death to leave

another thumbprint that could be used to compare the prints.

Known as the father of television, the British Science Museum, say John Logibert shared

an early interest in engineering.

He set up a telephone exchange in his bedroom, as a boy, to connect with his friends across the street.

He'd enrolled at the Glasgow Technical College, but the First World War interrupted his course so that he couldn't graduate.

In 1915, he went to work at the

Clyde Valley Electrical Power Company he invented a thermal water absorbent sock

before moving to Trinidad and setting up a jam-making business unfortunately

the venture wasn't successful so he returned to Scotland a year later.

It was after moving to Hastings by the coast in England that he began to experiment with broadcasting images.

Apparently, he collected together odds and ends including a hat box, a tea chest, a bicycle light, darning needles and scissors,

and from this he built his first apparatus.

In 1924, he broadcast a silhouette of a Maltese cross 10 feet in size, proving that his system he'd

created worked.

That same year, he fortunately survived a 1,000-volt electric shock

when he was experimenting at home in the flat he rented.

Apparently after this, his landlord asked him to leave.

His television company would go on to make the first TV programmes broadcast on the BBC as part of their experimental broadcasts.

And now we get to the bloody razor blade thumbprint and the remarkable tale told to Loughbyberd one day when he was staying at a hotel.

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