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Emily Davenport

Emily Davenport.

With her husband (Thomas Davenport), and his colleague (Orange Smalley[?]), she invented the electric motor and electric locomotive circa 1834.

She cut up her wedding dress into strips of silk to insulate the wire windings.

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