SCIENTIST MARRIES AT 83.
Sir John Ambrose Fleming, the scientist and inventor of the wireless valve, has been married at St. Paneras Church, London. He is 83 years of age. Sir Ambrose’s bride was Miss Olive May Franks, whose home
is in Manor Park, Redland, Bristol. She is 34, and the daughter of the late Mr. George Franks, laundry proprietor. Sir Ambrose Fleming, whose first wife died in 1917, was knighted in 1929. He was associated for many years with the development of electrical science, and achieved fame as the inventor of the thei’mionic valve which revolutionised wireless telegraphy and made wireless telephony possible.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4459, 19 October 1933, Page 6
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104SCIENTIST MARRIES AT 83. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4459, 19 October 1933, Page 6
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