John Archibald Purves FRSE (8 July 1870–11 April 1952) was an English electrical engineer best remembered as inventor of the Dynasphere.
Possibly owing to the error appearing throughout a May 1932 Popular Science magazine article on the Dynasphere, J.
His proposers were William Peddie, George Chrystal, Robert Boog Watson and Sir James Ormiston Affleck.
[3] At this time he lived at 4 Wardie Avenue in northern Edinburgh and appears to have been a partner in a firm named Lorrain & Purves, engineers and patent agents, of 53 York Place in the town centre.
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