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William Sturgeon

William Sturgeon
Born(1783-05-22)22 May 1783
Whittington, Lancashire, England
Died4 December 1850(1850-12-04) (aged 67)
Prestwich, Lancashire, England
Resting placeChurch of St Mary the Virgin, Prestwich
Known for
The first artificial electromagnet, invented by Sturgeon in 1824. Sturgeon's original drawing from his 1824 paper to the British Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. The magnet was made of 18 turns of bare copper wire (insulated wire had not yet been invented).[1]

William Sturgeon (/ˈstɜːrdʒən/; 22 May 1783 – 4 December 1850) was an English electrical engineer and inventor who made the first electromagnet and the first practical electric motor.

  1. ^ Thompson, Sylvanus P. (1891). Lectures on the Electromagnet. New York: W. J. Johnson Co. pp. 17–19.

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