Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton

Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, FRS (1863, Kimmerghame House, Berwickshire – 1930, London) was a Scottish consulting electrical engineer. He described an electronic method of producing television in a 1908 letter to Nature.

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