Thomas Davenport
Thomas Davenport
(
1802
-
1851
) was a
Vermont
blacksmith
. With his wife (
Emily Davenport
), and a colleague (
Orange Smalley
), he
invented
the
electric motor
and electric
locomotive
circa
1834
. Thomas Davenport received the first
patent
on an electric machine in
1837
.
Further Reading
Frank Wicks.
"The Blacksmith's Motor. Electricity, magnetism, and motion: A self-taught Vermonter pointed the direction for lighting the world."
Mechanical Engineering
,
July 1999
.
Patent 132.
http://www.tecsoc.org/pubs/history/2002/feb25b.htm
Smalley and Davenport's shop.
http://www.uvm.edu/~histpres/SD/hist.html
Davenport, Thomas Davenport, Thomas
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