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Uncommon card · Science
John Logie Baird, an Uncommon card
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Ranked #1,587 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.
- In 1928, the Baird Television Development Company achieved the first transatlantic television transmission.
- Baird's early technological successes and his role in the practical introduction of broadcast television for home entertainment have earned him a prominent place in television's history.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Logie Baird article was read about 190,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get John Logie Baird
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Logie Baird (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
