﻿MECHANICAL 
  TEANSPOKT 
  MITMAN 
  

  

  547 
  

  

  a 
  small 
  electromagnet 
  shortly 
  after 
  his 
  announcement 
  of 
  1831. 
  They 
  

   wanted 
  it 
  to 
  magnetize 
  the 
  iron 
  teeth 
  of 
  a 
  machine 
  which 
  they 
  used 
  

   to 
  separate 
  magnetic 
  iron 
  particles 
  from 
  refuse 
  in 
  iron 
  ore. 
  Occasion- 
  

   ally 
  after 
  the 
  magnet 
  was 
  received 
  at 
  Crown 
  Point 
  it 
  wae 
  made 
  to 
  

   perform 
  various 
  stunts, 
  such 
  as 
  holding 
  a 
  100-pound 
  anvil, 
  for 
  the 
  

  

  Figure 
  8— 
  Thomas 
  Davenport, 
  1802-1851. 
  The 
  village 
  blacksmith 
  of 
  Brandon, 
  

   Vt., 
  whose 
  electric 
  motor 
  invention 
  of 
  Feb. 
  25, 
  1837, 
  was 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  its 
  kind 
  in 
  

   America 
  

  

  benefit 
  of 
  the 
  villagers. 
  In 
  consequence 
  its 
  fame 
  spread 
  and 
  the 
  

   Crown 
  Point 
  "galvanic 
  magnet" 
  mystery 
  became 
  the 
  chief 
  topic 
  of 
  

   conversation 
  for 
  miles 
  around. 
  

  

  THOMAS 
  DAVENPORT 
  

  

  Twenty 
  miles 
  from 
  Crown 
  Point, 
  in 
  Brandon, 
  Vt., 
  Thomas 
  Daven- 
  

   port, 
  a 
  blacksmith, 
  and 
  a 
  studious 
  one, 
  and 
  his 
  friend 
  Orange 
  Smalley 
  

  

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