Luckily, shortly after, in 1906, American inventor Lee de Forest added a third " control" electrode that sits between the two electrodes in Fleming's design.
He talked it over with Lewis and they decided to spend their own money on a refurbishment, if only to give the insurance company as well as their rivals in Anstruther " a kick in the nuts" , as Fleming put it.
One out of every three people who could hear my voice right now and see my face would be dead, if it wasn't for the antibiotics that Fleming first invented.