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Name: John Ambrose Fleming
Birth Date: 1849
Death Date: 1945
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: electrical engineer

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Biography of John Ambrose Fleming
574 words, approx. 2 pages
John Ambrose Fleming was the common thread that linked the work of three individual geniuses, yet every one of those three now overshadow him. Fleming, born on November 29, 1849, in Lancaster, England, was the son of a Congregational minister. He...
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Biography of John Ambrose Fleming
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John Ambrose Fleming was a pioneering engineer who made numerous contributions both to the theoretical aspects and practical applications of electricity. Fleming played an important role in the development of lighting, heating, and radio, and, as a...


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Sir John Ambrose Fleming Summary
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1849-1945 British Physicist and Electrical Engineer Fleming invented the thermionic valve or vacuum tube diode, making possible the rectification or conversion of alternating current into pulsating direct current. The diode was the first reliable...
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John Ambrose Fleming Information
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Sir John Ambrose Fleming (November 29, 1849 - April 18, 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He was born on November 29 1849, the eldest of seven children of James Fleming DD (d. 1879), a Congregational minister, and his wife, Mary...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: John Fleming
06/08/2001: 1,179 words, approx. 4 pages
JOHN FLEMING was one of the last of that great generation of art historians who learned their craft through travel and connoisseurship rather than degree courses. Born in Berwick-upon-Tweed, he spent the greater part of a long and productive life in Italy, where...
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The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
AMBROSE LEFT WITHOUT WRITING MEMOIR.(EDITORIAL)(JOHN NICHOLS)(Column)
10/15/2002: 834 words, approx. 3 pages
Byline: John Nichols Stephen Ambrose was a brilliant historian, but, much to my disappointment, he has died before writing the one book I would have liked to see from him. That book would have been an autobiographical reflection on his own coming...
 


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