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John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (died 1945)
Sir John Ambrose Fleming (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was a British 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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John Ambrose Fleming was born in 1849. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
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| Measure | 1849 | 2026 |
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| Population | 22.0M | 341 million |
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