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John Ambrose Fleming

1849 - 1945

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Sir John Ambrose Fleming (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist who invented the 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Ambrose Fleming has received more than 363,542 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). John Ambrose Fleming is the 48th most popular engineer (down from 38th in 2019), the 799th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 766th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Engineer.

John Ambrose Fleming was most famous for inventing the thermionic valve, a vacuum tube that is used in radios and other devices to amplify signals.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John Ambrose Fleming ranks 48 out of 389. Before him are Sergey Ilyushin, Marcello Gandini, William John Macquorn Rankine, Moshe Arens, Vannevar Bush, and Lu Ban. After him are Arthur Scherbius, Godfrey Hounsfield, Gustaf de Laval, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Charles George Gordon, and Alexander Wienerberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, John Ambrose Fleming ranks 14. Before him are Bernhard von Bülow, John William Waterhouse, Alfred von Tirpitz, Sergei Witte, Bertha Benz, and Nogi Maresuke. After him are Blanche Monnier, Eva Gonzalès, Ellen Key, Max Nordau, Alexander Kielland, and Michael Ancher. Among people deceased in 1945, John Ambrose Fleming ranks 83. Before him are Margot Frank, Franz Ziereis, René Lalique, Wied, Prince of Albania, Mitsuru Ushijima, and Hans Oster. After him are Plutarco Elías Calles, Georg Kaiser, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Josef Terboven, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, and Kurt Gerstein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Ambrose Fleming ranks 799 out of 8,785. Before him are Leonora Carrington (1917), Tom Conti (1941), Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), Sawney Bean (1600), and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848). After him are Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), David Harvey (1935), John Vane (1927), George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866), and John Langdon Down (1828).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, John Ambrose Fleming ranks 2. Before him are William John Macquorn Rankine (1820). After him are Godfrey Hounsfield (1919), Charles George Gordon (1833), Colin Chapman (1928), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), Henry Royce (1863), Charles Rolls (1877), Alexander Cunningham (1814), George Cayley (1773), Hertha Ayrton (1854), and Adrian Newey (1958).

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