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Nov 29, 1849 Lancaster, England, United Kingdom Died on 18 Apr 1945 (aged 95)
Electrical engineer and physicist
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About John Ambrose Fleming
- Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist who invented the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made, and also established the right-hand rule used in physics.
- He was the eldest of seven children of James Fleming DD (died 1879), a Congregational minister, and his wife Mary Ann, at Lancaster, Lancashire, and baptised on 11 February 1850.
- A devout Christian, he once preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London on evidence for the resurrection.
- In 1932, he and Douglas Dewar and Bernard Acworth helped establish the Evolution Protest Movement.
- Fleming bequeathed much of his estate to Christian charities, especially those for the poor.
- He was a noted photographer, painted water colours, and enjoyed climbing the Alps.
