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Emily Goss Davenport
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Born	Emily Goss (1810-04-29)April 29, 1810 Brandon, Vermont
Died	October 5, 1862(1862-10-05) (aged 52) Brandon, Vermont
Citizenship	American
Known for	inventing the electric motor
Spouse(s)	Thomas Davenport John Mosely Weeks
Children	2

Emily Goss Davenport Weeks (April 29, 1810 – October 5, 1862) was an American inventor from Vermont. Together with her husband Thomas Davenport, they invented an electric motor and electric locomotive around 1834.^[1]^[2]^[3]\n

Davenport kept detailed notes and actively contributed to the process of the inventions.^[3] Needing to insulate the motor's iron core, Davenport cut her wedding dress into strips of silk to insulate the wire windings.^[4] She is also credited with the idea of using mercury as a conductor, enabling the motor to function for the first time.^[4] With her husband Thomas, and colleague Orange Smalley, she received the first American patent on an electric machine in 1837, U. S. Patent No. 132.^[5] This electric motor was used in 1840 to print The Electro-Magnet, and Mechanics Intelligencer - the first newspaper printed using electricity.\n

She was born Emily Goss in Brandon Vermont, one of five children born to Rufus Goss a local merchant and Anna Green.^[6] She and Thomas Davenport lived in Salisbury, Vermont and had two children, George Daniel Davenport and Willard Goss Davenport. Thomas Davenport died in 1851 and Emily moved to Middlebury.^[7] On January 6, 1856 she married John Mosely Weeks in Salisbury, the inventor of the Vermont beehive.^[7] She died in 1862 and is buried in Pine Hill Cemetery in Brandon, Vermont.^[2]\n

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^ \"Vermont Births and Christenings, 1765-1908\". FamilySearch. Retrieved 4 January 2019.\n
^ ^a ^b \"Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954\". FamilySearch. Retrieved 4 January 2019.\n
^ ^a ^b Lin, Patricia. \"Women Inventors: Davenport\". Archived from the original on April 27, 2009.\n
^ ^a ^b \nVare, Ethlie Ann; Ptacek, Greg (2002). Patently Female: From AZT to TV Dinners, Stories of Women Inventors and Their Breakthrough Ideas. New York: John Wiley & Sons, inc. p. 28. ISBN 0-471-02334-5.\n
^ \"Improvement in propelling machinery by magnetism and electro-magnetism\". Retrieved 27 February 2011.\n
^ Wicks, Frank. \"Electrical Pioneer\". Thomas Davenport. Retrieved 2022-05-04.\n
^ ^a ^b Weeks, John Moseley (2022-01-14). \"History of Salisbury, Vermont\". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2022-05-04.\n

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