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  2. Electric motor - Wikipedia

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    An industrial electric motor . An electric motor is a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.Most electric motors operate through the interaction between the motor's magnetic field and electric current in a wire winding to generate force in the form of torque applied on the motor's shaft.

  3. William Sturgeon - Wikipedia

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    The magnet was made of 18 turns of bare copper wire (insulated wire had not yet been invented). [1] William Sturgeon (/ ˈ s t ɜːr dʒ ə n /; 22 May 1783 – 4 December 1850) was an English physicist and inventor who made the first electromagnet and the first practical electric motor.

  4. Timeline of the electric motor - Wikipedia

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    Hungarian, physicist and unsung father of the dynamo and electric motor; invented the first commutated rotary electromechanical machine with electromagnets. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] He invented the commutator . In 1828, Jedlik demonstrated the first device to contain the three main components of practical DC motors: the stator , rotor and commutator.

  5. Andrew Gordon (Benedictine) - Wikipedia

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    The "whirl" was an electrostatic reaction motor, the earliest of its kind; [1] while the second derives its theoretical importance as the first instance of the application of what came to be called electric convection. Gordon died in Erfurt, Thuringia.

  6. Michael Faraday - Wikipedia

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    Electromagnetic rotation experiment of Faraday, 1821, the first demonstration of the conversion of electrical energy into motion [48] In 1821, soon after the Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetism, Davy and William Hyde Wollaston tried, but failed, to design an electric motor. [3]

  7. Electricity - Wikipedia

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    Michael Faraday invented the electric motor in 1821, and Georg Ohm mathematically analysed the electrical circuit in 1827. [22] Electricity and magnetism (and light) were definitively linked by James Clerk Maxwell, in particular in his "On Physical Lines of Force" in 1861 and 1862. [23]: 148

  8. Frank J. Sprague - Wikipedia

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    In 1999, grandsons, John L. Sprague and Peter Sprague cut the ribbon and started an 1884 Sprague motor at a new exhibit at the Shore Line Trolley Museum, where a permanent exhibit, "Frank J. Sprague: Inventor, Scientist, Engineer", tells the story of the role of the "father of electric traction" and the role of electricity in the growth of cities.

  9. Thomas Davenport (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    As early as 1834, he developed a battery-powered electric motor, along with his wife Emily Davenport. They used it to operate a small model car on a short section of track, paving the way for the later electrification of streetcars. [2] It is the first attempt to apply electrification to locomotion. [3]