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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. Early life [ edit ]
American; built a 12-pole electric motor with segmental commutator. [7] [18] [20] US 910: 1840, Truman Cook American; built electric motor with a PM armature. [18] [20] US 1735: 1845, Paul-Gustav Froment: French, engineer and instrument maker; first of various motors; first motor translated linear "electromagnetic piston's" energy to wheel's ...
Thomas Davenport (July 9, 1802 – July 6, 1851) was a Vermont blacksmith who, with his wife Emily, constructed the first American DC electric motor in 1834. [ 1 ] Biography
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.
A compound DC motor connects the armature and fields windings in a shunt and a series combination to give it characteristics of both a shunt and a series DC motor. [5] This motor is used when both a high starting torque and good speed regulation is needed. The motor can be connected in two arrangements: cumulatively or differentially.
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.
William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet in 1825. [19] Electromagnets were then used in the first practical engineering application of electricity by William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone who co-developed a telegraph system that used a number of needles on a board which were moved to point to letters of the alphabet. A five needle ...
1825 – William Sturgeon, founder of the first English Electric Journal, Annals of Electricity, found that an iron core inside a helical coil of wire connected to a battery greatly increased the resulting magnetic field, thus making possible the more powerful electromagnets utilizing a ferromagnetic core. Sturgeon also bent the iron core into ...