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It is probable
that most people and businesses who currently enjoy the ability to communicate
with friends, family, and colleagues around the world, give little thought to
the man who gave them the technology to be able achieve this modern miracle.
That man, Professor John Ambrose Fleming, born during the reign of Queen
Victoria, had the vision to develop an electronic device that has allowed us to
communicate and receive limitless information from the comfort of our
armchairs.
This biography
tracks Fleming's early life with a view to getting inside the mind of the man
to discover his initial interests and various thought processes. It also brings
to light how Fleming's thermionic valve changed the strategy of warfare for
ever, introduced the technology to track aircraft and shipping and provided new
ways for the intelligence services to eavesdrop on our enemies. It is highly
doubtful that Fleming would have had the slightest idea that his technology
would have had such a profound effect on so many of these various areas when he
first made his amazing discovery.
In exploring the
great man's life, Jim Lewis translates some of Fleming's experiments and
discoveries into a form of non-Victorian language which will (hopefully) make
sense to the lay person.
