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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.


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  • Patent 132. [http://www.tecsoc.org/pubs/history/2002/feb25b.htm http://www.tecsoc.org/pubs/history/2002/feb25b.htm]


  • Smalley and Davenport's shop. [http://www.uvm.edu/~histpres/SD/hist.html http://www.uvm.edu/~histpres/SD/hist.html]