Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to The Editor, The Electrician Comments on an announcement published on page 1150 of the issue of 28 June 1929 under the title 'Television in Germany', being mysterious in regard to a letter he published in Nature on 6 June 1929, enclosing a copy, drawing attention to the fact that the principle of Baird's transmitter was actually patented by Nipkow, a German, in 1884, before Baird was born [enclosure not present]. 29 June 1929