TV inventor challenged
AN obscure engineer who went to school in Edinburgh is challenging John Logie Baird for his title as the inventor of the television.
AN obscure engineer who went to school in Edinburgh is challenging John Logie Baird for his title as the inventor of the television.
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton is said to have proposed the idea of TV in 1908 — 17 years before Baird showed off a working set.
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Hide AdDr Paul Marshall, a researcher based in Lincolnshire, received a grant to study the origins of television and will now present his case in Campbell-Swinton’s birthplace of Duns, Berwickshire.
He says Baird should be renounced as TV’s inventor.