Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton (1863 - 1930) was a Scottish consulting electrical engineer born in Edinburgh. He described an electronic basis of producing television in a 1908 letter to Nature.
Biography
Campbell-Swinton was educated at the expensive Fettes College.
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He was one of the first to explore the medical applications of radiography, opening the first radiographic laboratory in Britain in 1896. In 1908 he published his ideas for an electronic television system. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1915.
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