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AltRefNo88256
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [Alexandre Henri Georges] Dauvillier, Laboratoire de Recherches Physiques sur les Rayons X, 12 Rue Lord-Byron 8e [Arrondisement], to [Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton]
CreatorDauvillier; Alexandre Henri Georges (1892-1979); physicist
Date4 June 1929
DescriptionAttached is a typewritten translation of the letter:

On receipt of your letter I looked up the photograph which I have of the Nipkow invention. It was, indeed, patented in Germany on the 6th January, 1884.

You perhaps know that there has recently been formed in France a Television Society. Its publication "Television" is up to now not very satisfactory. I am rather sceptical as to the future of such a body, which seems to me rather premature. French businessmen still do not seem to me to interest themselves in the practical realisation of television. I myself um still occupied with its application to the X-Rays.

I am sorry not to have had the opportunity of seeing you in Paris, and that you are ill. As for myself, my health is very 800d. Last year I had an interesting journey in connection with the Stockholm International Radiological Congress.
LanguageFrench
Extent2p
FormatTypescript
Manuscript
PhysicalDescriptionCarbon
Ink on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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CodePersonNameDates
NA8285Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863 - 1930); electrical engineer1863 - 1930
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