Remember racing home after school to watch your favorite TV shows?  As soon as the bell rang, my friends and I would break into a full sprint to make it to my house in time for the opening credits of our favorite shows. We'd plop down on the floor with some snacks and drinks and steal an hour or two before one of our parents insisted we start on our homework or do chores or something else we didn't want to do.

None of that would have happened without a Scottish engineer and innovator by the name of John Logie Baird. One of TV's inventors, he was the first to demonstrate a working television on January 26, 1926. Later, he would invent the first color television and the first "purely electronic" color picture tube.

90 years later, I can't help but think that without Mr. Baird's efforts we would have missed so many fun-filled afternoons.  And our parents would have found a way to fill that time — probably with lots more chores!