Ambrose Fleming Facts & Quotes

Interesting facts and quotes or quotations from the life of Professor Sir Ambrose Fleming.

John Ambrose Fleming Biography Includes:

Sir John Ambrose Fleming Books & publications Facts & quotes

In his day, Ambrose Fleming was a famous individual having helped provide the technology to enable Marconi's first transatlantic radio communications link to be established as well as developing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube. Arguably this could be thought of as the beginning of electronics as we know it today.

In addition to this, while Fleming was an exceedingly clever and intelligent man, he was also something of an eccentric, and this means there are various facts and quotes that are of interest.

Various Fleming facts and Fleming quotes are detailed below.

John Ambrose Fleming the inventor of the diode valve

John Ambrose Fleming facts

A summary of some of the chief facts about John Ambrose Fleming:

Key John Ambrose Fleming Facts
Fact	Details
Birth date	29 November 1849
Birth place	Lancaster
Father	Rev James Fleming, a Congregational minister
Death	18 April 1945
Higher Education	University College London and Cambridge
First employment	At a shipbuilder in Dublin and later in the London Stock Exchange to gain funds to further his studies.
Major discoveries	Diode oscillation valve, but also contributed significantly to the understanding of electrical machines and electrical measurements
Also known for	Fleming's left hand motor rule.
First wife	Clara Ripley - married in 1877 but died in 1917.
Second wife	Olive Franks married 1933
Children	None
Awards and honours	Knighted in 1929 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society 1892 Hughes Medal 1910 Duddell Medal of the Physical Society Faraday Medallist of Institution of Electrical Engineers 1928 Institute of Radio Engineers' Gold Medal in 1933
Major books published	Fleming published many books during the course of his career. Some of the most important were: The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy (1906) The Propagation of Electric Currents in Telephone and Telegraph Conductors (1911) Fifty Years of Electricity (1921)