First photograph of a television image. This early TV image showing a face was produced on a television designed in 1926 by the Scottish engineer and inventor John Logie Baird (1888-1946). Baird made mechanical televisions, which produced a picture using a spinning Nipkow disc. Models produced at around the same time, such as the television produced by the US inventor Philo Farnsworth (1906-1971), used the now-universal electron beam scanning, but this was still the first photograph of a television screen in use.