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'The Electron in Harness' by Sir Edward Appleton , F.R.S., Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh
Sir Edward Appleton makes the hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Ambrose Fleming , the radio pioneer and inventor, the occasion for a review of the enormously wide fields of electrical invention that have been opened up by the application of the thermionic valve.