History of the Electric Motor

By AidenC
  • Andrew Gordon

    The inventor of the the electric motor in the late 1740s.
  • Inception of the Electric Motor

    Inception of the Electric Motor
    The first rotating device driven by electromagnetism was built by the Peter Barlow
  • Peter Barlow

    invents the first spinning
  • Joseph Saxton

    magneto-electric machine
  • Emil Lenz

    Made the law of reciprocity of the magneto-electric and electromagnetic phenomena", in other words the reversibility of electric generator and motor.
  • Kempor

    Kempor builds a working linear induction motor.
  • Michael Faraday

    invents the first rotating electric machine
  • William Sturgeon

    Built a rotating electric device