Английская Википедия:Emily Davenport

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Emily Goss Davenport Weeks (April 29, 1810Шаблон:Spaced ndashOctober 5, 1862) was an American inventor from Vermont. Together with her husband Thomas Davenport, they invented an electric motor and electric locomotive around 1834.[1][2][3]

Davenport kept detailed notes and actively contributed to the process of the inventions.[3] Needing to insulate the motor's iron core, Davenport cut her wedding dress into strips of silk to insulate the wire windings.[4] She is also credited with the idea of using mercury as a conductor, enabling the motor to function for the first time.[4] With her husband Thomas, and colleague Orange Smalley, she received the first American patent on an electric machine in 1837, U. S. Patent No. 132.[5] This electric motor was used in 1840 to print The Electro-Magnet, and Mechanics Intelligencer - the first newspaper printed using electricity.

She was born Emily Goss in Brandon Vermont, one of five children born to Rufus Goss a local merchant and Anna Green.[6] She and Thomas Davenport lived in Salisbury, Vermont and had two children, George Daniel Davenport and Willard Goss Davenport. Thomas Davenport died in 1851 and Emily moved to Middlebury.[7] On January 6, 1856 she married John Mosely Weeks in Salisbury, the inventor of the Vermont beehive.[7] She died in 1862 and is buried in Pine Hill Cemetery in Brandon, Vermont.[2]

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