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Thomas Davenport

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Profession
Inventor
Died
Jul 6, 1851
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
VT
About
Remembered for building the first direct current electric motor, this nineteenth-century blacksmith carried out electromagnetic work that would prove instrumental to the later development of electric streetcars.
Family
He grew up in Williamstown and Forest Dale, Vermont. His wife, Emily, was his electric motor co-inventor.

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