Fleming valve prototype

Description

Original Fleming two electrode thermionic valve mounted an a mahogany base, used first as a detector in wireless telegraphy, by Sir Ambrose Fleming, England, 1904

Museum reference

T.1931.8

Collection

Industry and Commerce : Communications

Object name

Fleming thermionic valve

Production information

Fleming, Ambrose, Sir, 1849 - 1945, Inventor
Sidmouth, Devon, England, Northern Europe

Date

1904

Materials

Glass, Mahogany

Physical description

Mahogany base

Exhibitions

• Shaping Our World (29 Jul 2011 - 03 Aug 2014)
  National Museum of Scotland