Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton
1863 - 1930
Swinton, Alan Archibald Campbell (1863–1930), electrical engineer, born at 9 Albyn Place, Edinburgh. He was the first man to envision a completely electronic television system.
S. E. A. Landale, ‘Swinton, Alan Archibald Campbell (1863–1930)’, rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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