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John Ambrose Fleming blue plaque

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John Ambrose Fleming blue plaque
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This blue commemorative plaque records: "Greenfield". Former home of Sir John Ambrose Fleming, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. (1849-1945) Inventor of the thermonic valve. Designed Poldhu Wireless Station for Marconi, used in his first transatlantic transmission to St. John's Newfoundland in 1901. He designed and lived in this house 1926-1945.
Sir John Ambrose Fleming was a pioneering electrical engineer who invented the thermionic valve (or vacuum tube), crucial for the development of radio, television, and radar technologies. He significantly contributed to wireless technology by designing the Poldhu Wireless Station used in Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic radio transmission in 1901.

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