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The pioneering genius of Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton FRS can be seen in a recently catalogued archival collection of his personal and professional papers, as Vida Milovanovic reveals.

91TV Library has acquired the scientific papers of David Jones, or 'Daedalus', whose research topics ranged from bicycle stability and the ‘burning mirrors’ of Archimedes to the arsenic in Napoleon's wallpaper.

Read more about the story behind a less-than-conventional image from the Royal Society collections.