Electrical engineer. Born John Ambrose Fleming in a house named Greenfield in Lancaster. Best known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube. He was also an accomplished photographer and watercolourist. He died at his home (also called Greenfield), in Manor Road, Sidmouth, Devon.
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Sir Ambrose Fleming
Sir Ambrose Fleming, 1849 - 1945, scientist and electrical engineer, lived he...
The oldest public art gallery in England, designed by Sir John Soane. Its acquisitions over the years have resulted in it becoming one of the country's finest collections of old masters, especially...
First Director of the National Gallery. President of the Royal Academy. First President of the Royal Photographic Society. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Born in Plymouth, son ...
Painter. Â Registered as a conscientious objector in WW1. Â Died at the Park Hotel near Malvern. Â See his wife, Laura, for more details.
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