caption death_date birth_place nationality footnotes birth_date known_for residence image article_title education name occupation
alan campbell-swinton 19 february 1930 albyn place , edinburgh , scotland british elected a fellow of the royal society in 1915 18 october 1863 the a completely electronic television system first man to provide the theoretical basis for scotland alanacs.jpg alan archibald campbell-swinton
 fettes college , edinburgh alan archibald campbell-swinton electrical engineer
alan archibald campbell-swinton

alan archibald campbell-swinton frse -lrb- 18 october 1863 - 19 february 1930 -rrb- was a scottish consulting electrical engineer , who provided the theoretical basis for the electronic television , two decades before the technology existed to implement it .
he began experimenting around 1903 with the use of cathode ray tubes for the electronic transmission and reception of images .
campbell described the theoretical basis for an all electronic method of producing television in a 1908 letter to `` nature '' .
campbell-swinton 's concept was central to the cathode ray television because of his proposed modification of the cathode ray tube that allowed its use as both a transmitter and receiver of light .
the cathode-ray tube was the system of electronic television that was subsequently developed in later years , as technology caught up with campbell 's initial ideas .
other inventors would use campbell 's ideas , as a starting-point to realise the cathode ray tube television as the standard , workable form of all electronic television that it became for decades after his death .
it is generally considered that the original credit for the successful theoretical conception of using a cathode ray tube device for imaging should belong to campbell .
