Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, FRS (1863, Kimmerghame, Berwickshire – 1930, London) was a Scottish consulting electrical engineer. He described an electronic method of producing television in a 1908 letter to Nature.
Campbell-Swinton was educated at Cargilfield Trinity School and Fettes College (1878-1881).
He was one of the first to explore the medical applications of radiography, opening the first radiographic laboratory in the United Kingdom...
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Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, FRS (1863, Kimmerghame, Berwickshire – 1930, London) was a Scottish consulting electrical engineer. He described an electronic method of producing television in a 1908 letter to Nature.
Campbell-Swinton was educated at Cargilfield Trinity School and Fettes College (1878-1881).
He was one of the first to explore the medical applications of radiography, opening the first radiographic laboratory in the United Kingdom in 1896. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1915.
Campbell-Swinton wrote a letter in response to an article in the 4 June 1908 issue of Nature by Shelford Bidwell entitled "Telegraphic Photography and Electric Vision". Even as early as 1908, it was recognized that "The final, insurmountable problems with any form of mechanical scanning were the limited number of scans per second, which produced a flickering image, and the relatively large size of each hole in the disk, which resulted in poor resolution".
Campbell-Swinton's letter...
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