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RefNoACS/1/2/1/99
AltRefNo118
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to Mr. Leslie McMichael, [Esquire].
CreatorSwinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863-1930); British electrical engineer
Date5 November 1920
DescriptionAcknowledges receipt of a previous letter and returns Professor Fleming's letter. Believes that Fleming's paper is valuable and worth obtaining. Informs that he is due to run a test trial for his upcoming lecture, for which [Gustave-Auguste] Ferrié's consented to send messages from Paris, with two spark emissions of firve minutes each, with two minutes interval, on a 2, 600 wave. Notifies that he will call his lecture "Wireless Telegraphic Printing on the Creed Automatic System". Discusses a conversation he had with Sir Joseph Petavel, Director of the National Physical Laboratory, in relation to inspections of the laboratory.
Extent2p
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8285Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863 - 1930); electrical engineer1863 - 1930
NA8267Petavel; Sir; Joseph Ernest (1873 - 1936); engineer and physicist1873 - 1936
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