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Thomas Davenport was a Vermont blacksmith. Born 1802; died 1851.

With his wife ( Emily Davenport), and a colleague ( Orange Smalley ), he invented the electric motor and electric locomotive circa 1834. Thomas Davenport received the first patent on an electric machine in 1837.

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