| Description | File of documents pertaining to various patents and agreements assembled by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton:
1) Envelope titled 'Falkirk and District Tramways Company Agreement', appointing Swinton as Advisory Electrical Engineer for all the purposes of and throughout the construction and equipment and tramways during the period of maintenance by the contractors in the Construction Agreement.
2) Envelope titled 'Registered, Patent, [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton [Esquire], 66 Victoria Street, S. W., containing official acceptance of Swinton's Application with a Provisional Sepcification for a Patent for Improvements in telegraphic apparatus, dated 8 October 1913, informing that a complete specification must be sent within 6 months if a patent is desired. Also included are the returned supporting documents initially sent by Swinton for this purpose.
3) Envelope titled 'Assignment of Patent no 901/97 "Improvements in Reversing Steam Turbines" from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton [Esquire] (including copy for him), containing a copy of the patent grant. Annotated notes in pencil appear on the document.
4) Envelope titled 'Kent Electric Power [Syndicate]' containing an Agreement as to The Kent Electric Power Company between G. L. Addenbrooke [Esquire] and [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton, dated 29 June 1903; Agreement with The Kent Electric Power Syndicate Ltd with Messrs. G. L. Addenbrooke and [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton;, dated 10 February 1903; Agreements with the Kent Electric Power Syndicate Limited between Solicitors and Engineers, dated 10 February 1903; The Kent Electric Power Company and the Kent Electric Power Syndicate Limited with their Engineers, dated 1905.
5) Provisional Patent Specification for a system of Transmitting Views of Portratis and Scenes by Telegraphy or Wireless Telegraphy, submitted by John Logie Baird and Wilfred Ernest Lytton Day, dated 9 October 1924.
6) Complete Patent Specification for Improvements in Electrical Transmision of Images communicated by Western Electric Company Incorporated, dated 9 February 1925.
7) Complete Patent Specification for Improvements in Electrical Transmision of Images communicated by Western Electric Company Incorporated, dated 9 March 1925.
8) Provisional Patent Specification for a System of Transmitting Views of Portratis and Scenes by Telegraphy or Wireless Telegraphy, submitted by John Logie Baird and Wilfred Ernest Lytton Day, dated 19 March 1925.
9) Provisional Patent Specification for Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Television, submitted by George Joseph Blake, dated 28 May 1925.
10) Provisional Patent Specification for a System of Transmitting Views of Portratis and Scenes by Telegraphy or Wireless Telegraphy, submitted by John Logie Baird and Wilfred Ernest Lytton Day, dated 17 July 1925.
11) Complete Patent Specification for Improvements in and relating to Television Systems, submitted by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, dated 28 May 1925.
12) Provisional Patent Specification for a System of Overcoming the Time Lag in a Selenium or other Light-sensitive Cell used in a Television or like System, submitted by John Logie Baird and Wilfred Ernest Lytton Day, dated 12 June 1925.
13) Provisional Patent Specification for Improvements in and relating to the Reception of Pictures in Copying-Telegraphy and Television, submitted by George Maurice Wright, dated 7 June 1926.
14) Provisional Patent Specification for Improvements relating to the Radio Transmission and Reception of Pictures, submitted by George Maurice Wright, dated 7 June 1926.
15) Provisional Patent Specification for Improvements in Apparatus for Transmitting Scenes or Representations to a Distance, submitted by John Logie Baird, dated 1 July 1926.
16) Complete Patent Specification for Improvements in or relating to Television Systems, submitted by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, dated 31 March 1927.
17) Issued by the French Ministry of Trade and Industry, Patent of Invention application for precision instruments telegraphy & telephony, submitted by Alexandre Dauvillier, dated 21 September 1925. Accompanied by a typewritten copy of a second French patent addition. Both documents are in the French language.
18) Bond and Assignation in Security by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton in favour of the Edinburgh Life Assurance Company (sum of £800), dated 1909.
19) Bond and Assignation in Security by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton in favour of the Edinburgh Life Assurance Company (sum of £ 1000), dated 1909.
20) File of correspondence, documents, articles, and newsprint clippings, titled 'Lane Fox Pitt, Early lamp patent controversy', dated 1890-1929, documenting the electrical controversy over who the inventor of the incandescent electric lamp is. The first patent for incandescent lighting was obtained by Mr St. George Lane Fox Pitt, in 1878, preceding Thomas Edison's patent by fourteen days, and Joseph Swan's by two years. Swinton supported Lane Fox Pitt's claim actively and publicly.
21) Copy of a letter by Swinton being a 'statement relative to the system of wireless telegraphy as developed by Mr Marconi and myself respectively'. |