| RefNo | ACS/1/2/3/183 |
| AltRefNo | 237 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to Sir Oliver Lodge |
| Creator | Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863-1930); British electrical engineer |
| Date | 18 March 1928 |
| Description | Informs he has read two of Lodge's articles on television in Popular Wireless. Comments that the trouble about Baird and his experiments is that he is being run as a Stock Exchange stunt to get rid, to the public, of shares in his Company, which are now being offered on the Stock Exchange at 12/6 for the £1 shares. He wishes to specially write about what is in his second article, pertaining to mechanical contrivances failing, and as to possible use of the cathode rays. Reminds him that he suggested the use of cathode rays for Television, both for transmitting and receiving, in a letter he published in 1908 in Nature, elaborating on the idea at a Presidential Address at the Royal Society of Arts in 1911. Encloses a copy of a paper "The Possibilities of Television" which he read before the Radio Society of Great Britain in 1924. Comments that he never intended to make an apparatus on these lines, though he tried experiments. He is aware of people in France who are experimenting with cathode rays for reception, as well as in Germany. Comments that the advantage of the cathode ray method is that the use of oscillating thermionic valves, all moving material parts of any description could be done away with, and the whole apparatus, both for transmitting and receiving, operated entirely by moving electrons. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Typescript |
| PhysicalDescription | Carbon |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8285 | Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863 - 1930); electrical engineer | 1863 - 1930 |
| NA8070 | Lodge; Sir; Oliver Joseph (1851 - 1940); physicist | 1851 - 1940 |