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Thomas Davenport

For other persons named Thomas Davenport, see Thomas Davenport (disambiguation).

Thomas Davenport (9 July 1802 – 6 July 1851) was a Vermont blacksmith who lived in Forestdale Vermont.

With his wife (Emily Davenport), and a colleague (Orange Smalley), he invented the electric motor and electric locomotive circa 1834 in Brandon, Vermont. Thomas Davenport received the first patent on an electric machine in 1837, U. S. Patent No. 132.

Further reading

• Detailed biographical sketch. Thomas Davenport
• 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

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