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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Fleming's Electric Valve

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides background information on the Edison Effect and then discusses Fleming's invention.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: John Ambrose Fleming

For Students 9th - 10th
John Ambrose Fleming was an electronics pioneer who invented the oscillation valve, or vacuum tube, a device that would help make radios, televisions, telephones and even early electronic computers possible. A brilliant innovator,...