John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)

John Ambrose Fleming (1890).

Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was a British electrical engineer and physicist.

He is known for inventing the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.

He is also famous for the left hand rule (for electric motors).

On 11 June 1887 he married Clara Ripley (1856/7–1917), daughter of Walter Freake Pratt, a solicitor from Bath. On 27 July 1928 he married the popular young singer Olive May Franks (b. 1898/9), of Bristol, daughter of George Franks, a Cardiff businessman.

In the News

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  Crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against physical constants
• Gnomon algorithm

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Harold Barlow (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
• Frederick Guthrie (nonfiction) - Doctoral advisor
• Physicist (nonfiction)
• Balthasar van der Pol (nonfiction) - Notable student

Other notable students Balthasa

External links:

• John Ambrose Fleming @ Wikipedia