Moses G. Farmer
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| Born | February 9, 1820 Boscawen, New Hampshire |
| Died | May 25, 1893 (aged 73) Chicago, Illinois |
| Occupation(s) | Electrical engineer, inventor |
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Moses Gerrish Farmer (February 9, 1820 – May 25, 1893) was an
Biography
Farmer was born at
In 1847, Farmer constructed and exhibited in public what he called "an electro-magnetic locomotive, and with forty-eight pint cup cells of Grove nitric acid battery drew a little car carrying two passengers on a track a foot and a half wide".[3]: 7–8 Farmer later fabricated a process for electroplating aluminum. At Boston in 1851, he constructed an electric fire-alarm service with William Francis Channing. He invented several forms of the incandescent electric light.
Farmer, in competition with
With his partner William Wallace, he invented the early dynamo which powered a system of arc lights he exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia, and which inspired Thomas Edison to work on an improved incandescent light. Edison used the Wallace-Farmer 8 horsepower (6.0 kW) dynamo to power his early electric light demonstrations.[6][7] Farmer served as a teacher for a time. Farmer died at the World's Columbian Exposition. Farmer was a pioneer of many aspects of 19th century electrical invention, but, because he and his wife were spiritualists, they felt that their talents were God-given, and he felt that they shouldn't take credit for any of his inventions. As a result, he failed to carry his ideas to commercial success.
He died in Chicago on May 25, 1893.[8]
References
- ISBN 9780847697496. Retrieved November 26, 2016.
- ^ Conot 1979, p. 29.
- ^ a b Stevens, John R., ed. (1991). Pioneers of Electric Railroading: Their Story in Words and Pictures. New York: Electric Railroaders' Association.
- ^ Conot 1979, p. 120.
- ^ Derry & Williams 1961, p. 614.
- ^ Jonnes 2003, p. 47,54.
- ^ Josephson 2003, p. 176-186.
- ^ Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1906). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. IV. Boston: American Biographical Society. Retrieved March 18, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
Bibliography
- Conot, Robert (1979). A Streak of Luck. New York: Seaview Books. ISBN 0-87223-521-1.
- Derry, T.K.; Williams, Trevor I. (1961). A Short History of Technology. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198812319.
- Jonnes, Jill (2003). Empires of Light. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50739-6.
- Josephson, Matthew (2003). Edison; a biography. Francis Parkman Prize Edition History Book Club. ISBN 0-9655699-3-4.
External links
- Patents
- Websites
- Boscawen New Hampshire Inventor, Prof. Moses Gerrish Farmer (1820-1893). Cowhampshire.blogharbor, New Hampshire History, Genealogy, Photography and Humor.
- Moses G. Farmer, Eliot's Inventor.
- Moses Gerrish Farmer. California Digital Library record (via Google) [dead link]
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