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William Sturgeon
William Sturgeon was an English electrical engineer and inventor who made the first electromagnet and the first practical electric motor.
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science · English electrical engineer and inventor (1783–1850) · inventor · physicist · also William Sturgeon, Sturgeon
Born 22 May 1783 · Died 4 December 1850 · Q472515
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1850· 1 entry
Died 1850-12-04.
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1843· 1 entry
Started the monthly journal, The Annals of Philosophical Discovery and Monthly Reporter of the Progress of Practical Science; issue 1 of volume 1 is dated July 1843
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1842· 1 entry
And he earned a living by lecturing and demonstrating
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1840· 1 entry
Became superintendent of the Royal Victoria Gallery of Practical Science in Manchester
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1839· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1839).
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1836· 1 entry
Established the journal Annals of Electricity, Magnetism and Chemistry, and in the same year he invented a galvanometer
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1832· 1 entry
Was appointed to the lecturing staff of the Adelaide Gallery of Practical Science in London, where he first demonstrated the DC electric motor incorporating a commutator
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1824· 1 entry
Became lecturer in Science and Philosophy at the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe, Surrey, and in the following year he exhibited his first electromagnet
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1802· 1 entry
And taught himself mathematics and physics
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1783· 1 entry
Born 1783-05-22.
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