Drafted and added to Workington's page on Wikipedia June 2009.
Harold Dunn(1904-1999) - Engineer and inventor. In 1935, Harold built and then demonstrated the first television set in West Cumbria. He astonished the scientific world, because his set produced a picture in Workington, some 52 miles outside the expected range of the BBC's signal relayed from Alexandra Palace transmitting station. Harold communicated with John Logie Baird and used Baird's mechanical scanning principle in his own TV, which was built from radio and car parts improvised components and what he called junk. The set and Harold's papers are now in the collection of theNational Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. [15][16]
