GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1835 the two Dutchmen Sibrandus Stratingh and Christopher Becker built an electric motor that powered a small model car. This is the first known practical application of an electric motor. In February 1837 the first patent for an electric motor was granted to the US-american Thomas Davenport.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Davenport, (born July 9, 1802, Williamstown, Vt., U.S.-died July 6, 1851, Salisbury, Vt.), American inventor of what was probably the first commercially successful electric motor, which he used with great ingenuity to power a number of established inventions.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1840 Thomas Davenport built a more powerful motor to run a printing press. He used his press to publish a work entitled The Electro-Magnet and Mechanics Intelligencer. Unfortunately he was not able to make the motor profitable.

Detailed explanation-4: -Visiting Williamstown, VT, the birthplace of Thomas Davenport, the inventor of the first electric motor. Davenport’s electromagnetic invention, patented in 1837, was used to drive trolleys throughout the United States and all other forms of locomotion.