An octogenarian expert on the early development of television will give an open lecture at the University of Dundee on Monday, September 23.
Grant Dixon's fascination with TV began in 1928 and as a schoolboy he built a scanning disc television receiver for the early BBC transmissions. After becoming president of the British Amateur Television Club in 1951, he constructed a complete colour CCTV system which produced its first colour pictures in 1954.
Mr Dixon's lecture marks the start of the second DisplayMasters (correct) course, a unique Masters degree course which is led the University of Dundee and jointly run with the Universities of Abertay, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Nottingham, Trent, Oxford and Napier.
Throughout the next year, students of the course will complete a week long module at each of the participating universities studying all types of display technology, systems and applications from displays within the cockpit of an aeroplane to those on mobile phones. Module One, "Foundation in Displays", takes place at the University of Dundee throughout next week and will give students a comprehensive overview of the course.
DisplayMasters is the only course in the world which comprehensively teaches all aspects of display technology and students, the number of which has doubled since last year's course, spend much of their time working in industry with companies including Nokia, Philips and Hitachi.
In contrast to the state-of-the-art technology the students will be studying, 86 year-old Mr Dixon will be giving a working demonstration of an early television system and showing off various artefacts relating to TV through the years.
The lecture starts at 6.30pm in the first floor conference suite, Tower Building
By Jane Smernicki, Press Officer 01382 344768 j.m.smernicki@dundee.ac.uk