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Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton FRS (18 October 1863 – 19 February 1930) was a Scottish consulting electrical engineer, who provided the theoretical basis for the electronic television, two decades before the technology existed to implement it.[1]

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  1. 18 relations: Archibald Campbell Swinton, Cargilfield Preparatory School, Cathode ray, Cathode-ray tube, Clan Swinton, Edinburgh, Electrical engineering, EMI, Equitable Telephone Association, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fettes College, Mechanical television, Nature (journal), Radiography, RCA, Royal Society, Shelford Bidwell, Television.

  2. Clan Swinton
  3. Engineers from Edinburgh
  4. People educated at Cargilfield School
  5. Projectional radiography
  6. Scottish electrical engineers

Archibald Campbell Swinton

Professor Archibald Campbell Swinton FRSE DL LLD LLB (15 July 1812 – 27 November 1890), was a Scottish author, politician and professor of civil law at Edinburgh, 1842–62. Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton and Archibald Campbell Swinton are clan Swinton.

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Cargilfield Preparatory School

Cargilfield Preparatory School is a Scottish private co-educational boarding and prep school in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Cathode ray

Cathode rays or electron beams (e-beam) are streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes.

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Cathode-ray tube

A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen.

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Clan Swinton

Clan Swinton is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton and EMI are television pioneers.

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Equitable Telephone Association

The Equitable Telephone Association was an English company incorporated on 15 December 1886 for the purpose of manufacturing and selling telephone equipment based on the patents of Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".

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Fettes College

Fettes College is a co-educational private boarding and day school in Craigleith, Edinburgh, Scotland, with over two-thirds of its pupils in residence on campus.

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Mechanical television

Mechanical television or mechanical scan television is an obsolete television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, such as a rotating disk with holes in it or a rotating mirror drum, to scan the scene and generate the video signal, and a similar mechanical device at the receiver to display the picture.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Radiography

Radiography is an imaging technique using X-rays, gamma rays, or similar ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation to view the internal form of an object.

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America.

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Royal Society

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.

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Shelford Bidwell

Shelford Bidwell FRS (6 March 1848 – 18 December 1909) was an English physicist and inventor.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.

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See also

Clan Swinton

Engineers from Edinburgh

People educated at Cargilfield School

Projectional radiography

Scottish electrical engineers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Archibald_Campbell-Swinton

Also known as Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, Alan Campbell-Swinton.