John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)
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Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was a British electrical engineer and physicist.
He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or 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.
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Miniaturized version of John Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
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External links:
- John Ambrose Fleming @ Wikipedia