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RefNoACS/1/2/1/154
AltRefNo180
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to Sir Oliver Lodge
CreatorSwinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863-1930); British electrical engineer
Date20 November 1920
DescriptionAcknowledges receipt of a copy of Lodge's paper from the Philosophical Magazine, intending to study it. Informs he must read Lodge's letter to "Nature", which he has not yet seen. Informs he has just been giving a lecture on Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony at the Soicety of Arts and that he has had on loan the Creed type-printing telegraph machine, with which he printed in Roman type a message in Morse alphabet from the Eiffel Tower. Promises to send a copy of his paper once it is ready.
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AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8070Lodge; Sir; Oliver Joseph (1851 - 1940); physicist1851 - 1940
NA8285Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863 - 1930); electrical engineer1863 - 1930
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