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John Ambrose Fleming

Inventor · born November 29, 1849 · died 1945

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Sir John Ambrose Fleming was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the vacuum tube radio transmitter—with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made—and establishing the right-hand rule used in physics.

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  1. ~61Received the Hughes Medal1910
  2. ~84Received the IEEE Medal of Honor1933

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