biography
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| lived:
| (1783–1850)
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| biography:
| Electrical engineer, born in Whittington, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He was self-educated in electrical science, and became a lecturer at the Royal Military College (1824). He built the first practical electromagnet (1825), invented the commutator for electric motors (1832), made the first moving-coil galvanometer (1836), and carried out research into atmospheric charge. His Annals of Electricity (1836) was the first journal of its kind in Britain. |
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