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Electric Motor Chronology Selected Patents 1905, Alfred Zehden German, a feasible linear induction motor described in patent form for driving trains or lifts. U.S. patent 782,312: 1935, Hermann Kemper: German, built a working linear induction motor 1945–1949, Eric Laithwaite: British, first full-size working model of linear induction motor
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.
The first commutator DC electric motor capable of turning machinery was invented by English scientist William Sturgeon in 1832. [23] Following Sturgeon's work, a commutator-type direct-current electric motor was built by American inventors Thomas Davenport and Emily Davenport, [24] which he patented in 1837.
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]
The phonograph becomes faster and more convenient due to an electric motor. The electric motor brings on the first juke box with cylinders – even before flat disk records were widely available. Thomas Edison discovers thermionic emission. This effect forms the basis for the vacuum tube and the cathode ray tube.
In 1828, Ányos Jedlik, a Hungarian who invented an early electric motor, constructed a tiny model car powered by his new motor. [8] In 1834, Vermont blacksmith Thomas Davenport, the inventor of the first American DC electric motor, installed his motor in a small model car, which he operated on a short circular electrified track. [24]
William Sturgeon (/ ˈ s t ɜːr dʒ ə n /; 22 May 1783 – 4 December 1850) was an English electrical engineer and inventor who made the first electromagnet and the first practical electric motor. Early life
William Howard McLellan (December 1, 1924 – September 30, 2011) was an American electrical engineer, [1] who achieved some fame in 1960 by succeeding at an engineering challenge set by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman to build the smallest ever electric motor.