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	Encyclopedia: Thomas Davenport
		Thomas Davenport was born in 1802 in Vermont on a farm outside Williamstown, Vt., the eighth of 12 children.
		Thomas Davenport died on July 6, 1851, Salisbury, Vt., U.S.A. In 1929, Rev. Walter Rice Davenport, nephew of Thomas Davenport, wrote the Biography of Thomas Davenport, " The Brandon Blacksmith, Inventor of the Electric Motor ", which was published by the Vermont Historical Society.
		Davenport purchased one of Henry's magnets and together with Emily, his brother Oliver and cousin Orange Smalley began work on what is described in the patent specifications as "an application of magnetism and electro magnetism to propelling machinery." (Patent Number 132).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-Davenport (532 words)

	Thomas Davenport - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		With his wife (Emily Davenport), and a colleague (Orange Smalley), he invented the electric motor and electric locomotive circa 1834 in Brandon, Vermont.
		Thomas Davenport received the first patent on an electric machine in 1837, U. Patent No. 132.
		Thomas Davenport, Further Reading, 1802 births, 1851 deaths, American inventors, Blacksmiths and People from Vermont.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Thomas_Davenport (130 words)

	The blacksmith's motor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Davenport met Rensselaer's founding president, Amos Eaton, a distinguished lawyer, botanist, geologist, chemist, educator, and innovator, who was amazed by the motor and by the self-educated flsmith who had built it.
		What Davenport could not anticipate, and what no one else would describe for another 20 years, was that his motor would be turned by water or steam power and would operate in reverse, as an electric generator.
		Thomas Edison invented the electric lightbulb in 1879, using a chemical battery to power his experiments, but he recognized the need for central generating plants and distribution systems to provide electricity to customers.
	www.memagazine.org /backissues/july99/features/blacksmith/blacksmith.html (2263 words)

	Today in Technology History - Jul 6
		Thomas Davenport was born in Vermont in 1802.
		Davenport began hands-on experiments with electromagnets, and in time he unraveled their secrets.
		Davenport the flsmith was a bridge between the age of muscle power and the new era of electrical machinery.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2001/jul6.htm (277 words)

	Davenport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		July 6, 1851, Salisbury, Vt., U.S.A. Thomas Davenport was an American flsmith and inventor who invented the first DC electrical motor in 1834 and made a small model of electrical railway in 1835.
		Davenport used his DC electrical motor to power shop machinery, it was the first practical application for the electric motor.
		Thomas Davenport died on July 6, 1851, Salisbury, Vt., U.S.A. In 1929, Rev. Walter Rice Davenport, nephew of Thomas Davenport, wrote the Biography of Thomas Davenport, "The Brandon Blacksmith, Inventor of the Electric Motor", which was published by the Vermont Historical Society.
	chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/davenport.html (1816 words)

	Fevbruary 3, 2004 Yearly Summary. Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Rev. John Davenport (1597-1670) of New Haven, CT, Thomas Davenport (~1615-1685) of Dorchester (Boston), and Richard Davenport (1642-1714) of Virginia and the Albemarle area of North Carolina.
		It was always assumed that Rev. John and Thomas were connected, but Richard was a surprise.
		Thomas of Dorchester had four sons that survived to adulthood - Charles, Jonathan, Ebenezer, and John.
	www.davenportdna.com /News/Feb_03b_2004.htm (520 words)

	Smalley Davenport History
		Thomas Davenport moved to New York City where he set up a workshop and exhibition space for his "electro-magnetic engine." He also published a newspaper on a press powered by one of his electric motors.
		Davenport was unable to secure sufficient financial backing to develop the electric motor commercially and after several years he returned to Brandon in poor health.
		In 1929, Rev. Walter Rice Davenport, nephew of Thomas Davenport, wrote the Biography of Thomas Davenport, The Brandon Blacksmith, Inventor of the Electric Motor, which was published by the Vermont Historical Society.
	www.uvm.edu /~histpres/SD/hist.html (3510 words)

	SPT v6n2: Davis Baird
		Thomas Davenport, a Vermont flsmith with little schooling and no training in electromagnetism, made a rotary electromagnetic motor after seeing a demonstration of Joseph Henry's electromagnet.
		The fact that Davenport crafted his motor reassures us that "he knew what he was doing." This fact, that he knew what he was doing, supports the notion that the motor bore his knowledge of electromagnetism, knowledge that he could not express in words.
		Davenport, W. Biography of Thomas Davenport: The "Brandon Blacksmith," Inventor of the Electric Motor, The Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier, Vermont, 1929.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/SPT/v6n2/baird.html (4510 words)

	davenport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thomas Davenport, an impoverished, uneducated flsmith, had become intrigued with Joseph Henry's electromagnet that had come to be used in the iron ore separation process.
		She was well-educated, kept the notes as the invention went along and recommended, most critically, the use of mercury as a conductor when it came to the point where it looked as if the Davenports' efforts were about to fail.
		The Davenport electrical motor received its formal patent in 1837 and Thomas sold a model to the country's first school of engineering, Rensselaer Institute in New York.
	www.csupomona.edu /~plin/inventors/davenport.html (270 words)

	Janet's Genealogy
		Davenport Road between the Appamattox and Willis rivers in Cumberland County, 1765 -- named for Thomas Davenport, Sr., son of Davis; and -- Davenport Bend on the Holston River in Washington County, 1795 -- named for Thomas Davenport, son of Julius and a grandson of Thomas, Sr.
		In North Carolina, Davenport Gap in the Great Smoky Mountains on the North Carolina-Tennessee border was named in honor of Colonel William Davenport, son of Martin Davenport of Thomas (of Martin, Sr.), who led the survey crew that established the State boundary in 1821.
		Colonel Davenport, for many years the highly respected Clerk of Courts of Wilkes County, was badly abused as a 10-year-old boy by marauding Tories (Americans actively loyal to the King) in 1780 during the Revolutionary War.
	www.geocities.com /janet_ariciu/Davenport.html (1938 words)

	bradley - aqwg1270
		Thomas married Constance of YORK on Jan 1384 in Groby, Leicestershire, England.
		Thomas married Elizabeth on Jun 1380 in Morley, Norfolk, England.
		Sir Thomas de MORLEY Lord Morley was born 1354 and died 24 Sep 1416.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~hwbradley/aqwg1270.htm (583 words)

	Davis Davenport
		Thomas Davenport (c1680s – 1775) He was surely another son, being closely associated with the children of Martin Davenport. On 23 December 1714, Thomas “Devenport” recorded a patent of 311 acres on the north side of the Pamunkey River in St. John’s Parish, King William County.
		John Davenport A John Davenport “of King William County” he purchased 230 acres in Henrico County on 10 October 1736. He sold this land in 1740 and disappeared. There is some possibility that he went to North Carolina.
		Richard Davenport (c1704 – 1776) He patented land in Caroline County on 15 September 1752 that adjoined the “land of Davenport”, apparently referring to the 1714 patent by Thomas Davenport.
	home.nc.rr.com /rwbaird/davenport/DavisDavenport.htm (543 words)

	CIO - Dec 15, 1994 - Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Davenport met with some of his future students and asked how many were planning a career as a CIO.
		Davenport, who is also a research fellow at Ernst and Young's Center for Information Technology and Strategy in Boston, says he doesn't necessarily agree with that gloomy assessment.
		And while Davenport doesn't deny that reengineering is an idea with merit, he discredits the grandiose claims that equate it with organizational transformation, relegating it instead to a supportive position in an arsenal that includes older, less-shiny tools like TQM and incremental change.
	www.cio.com /archive/010195_q_and_a.html (3206 words)

	Davenport Family
		Thomas Davenport, referred to hereinafter as the Pioneer, was born 1682 and died Dec. 30, 1759.
		Lambert's map of Water Lot No. 2 made in 1769, after the partition of the patent among the grandnieces and one grand nephew of Adolph Philipse, shows the leaseholds of Thomas and William Davenport, sons of the pioneer Thomas Davenport, extending from Bull Hill to the north shore of Indian Brook.
		The pioneer, Thomas Davenport, was buried in a vale, a short distance from his home, as were members of his immediate family, in unmarked graves.
	www.pchs-fsm.org /pchs-geneDave.html (360 words)

	Martin Davenport
		Between the surviving mentions in Hanover County, Martin Davenport also appears once in the records of Spotsylvania County (across the river), witnessing a deed on 28 July 1731 for the sale of land held in trust for Ann Arnold, the wife of his son William Davenport.
		The second and final mention of Martin Davenport in surviving Hanover County records is his will. It is dated 24 May 1735 and recorded 2 October 1735, naming his wife Dorothy and sons William, David, James, Martin Jr., and John.
		Thomas Davenport (c1711 – 10 November1809) He was apparently another son. He moved to Burke County, North Carolina in the 1770s at about the same time Mary Gambill moved to the same area.
	home.nc.rr.com /rwbaird/davenport/MartinDavenport.htm (844 words)

	Descendants of William Micklewright
		In the August, 1860 Census, Thomas is married to Elizabeth and living in St. Louis Township, Missouri with their children Sarah 13, William 10, Austin Howorth 10, (Elizabeths' son by a previous marriage born in England), Margaret 4, born in Missouri and Sophia 2, born in Missouri.
		Thomas Micklewright born in 1867 in Scott County Iowa was baptised a Catholic, on July 29, 1888 at St. Ann's in Long Grove, Iowa by Fr.
		OBITUARY: The funeral of Thomas Micklewright was heldat 8:30 a.m.
	www.celticcousins.net /scott/micklewright.htm (3718 words)

	US and Canadian Inventors and Inventions - EnchantedLearning.com
		Thomas Davenport (July 9, 1802 -July 6, 1851) was an American flsmith and inventor who established the first commercially successful electric streetcar.
		Davenport, from Vermont, invented an electric motor in 1834 and began a small electric railway in 1835.
		Davenport later started a workshop in New York City, New York, and published a journal on electromagnetism (it was printed on a press that was powered by motors which he devised).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /inventors/us.shtml (15172 words)

	Family Lineage
		Thomas Davenport, from whom we know our American family descends, is known to have been in Dorchester Massachusetts on May 18, 1642.
		Thomas was a soldier in the King Phillip War and later became Constable of Dorchester.
		However, descending from Charles, the second son, was to be in years to come, another famous Thomas Davenport who invented the first useful electric motor and the electric telegraph [before Samuel Morse].
	members.cox.net /bobdport/genealogy_Am_Daven.htm (1285 words)

	Thomas Davenport Papers (Library of Congress)
		The material was transferred from the Geography and Map Division to the Manuscript Division in 1997.
		The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Thomas Davenport is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
		Six of the letters to Cook are from Davenport.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/davenpor.html (447 words)

	Smalley Davenport Shop Summary
		Thomas Davenport and his wife, Emily, a first cousin of Orange Smalley, moved to Forestdale from Brandon Village in 1832 to live at the farm of Emily's father, Rufus Goss.
		The marble monument commemorating Thomas Davenport was erected in the front yard in 1910 on an 8 foot square plot of land deeded to the Vermont Historical Society.
		The property has also gained significance over the past 82 years for its association with the monument erected on the property commemorating the invention of the electric motor and Thomas Davenport, who is generally recognized as the inventor.
	www.uvm.edu /~histpres/SD/sum.html (806 words)

	Thomas Davenport -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		American inventor of what was probably the first commercially successful electric motor, which he used with great ingenuity to power a number of established inventions.
		The sloping top of the davenport concealed a fitted well, the front of which protruded beyond the drawers and was supported by a pair of columns on a base, or plinth.
		Edward Davenport was considered one of the most skilled and popular American actors of the mid-19th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9029466 (754 words)

	J.G. Russell Family Tree - Person Page 36
		According to John Scott Davenport's Pamunkey Davenport Chronicles: '[T]he two Davenports appearing by Time and Place in Virginia records most likely to have been Davis' immigrant parent were apparently single women, namely Hannah, transportee of 1650, or Anne, transportee of 1658.
		We would note that Graves Family descendants claim Anne Davenport, born c1696, and who married Thomas Graves, as their matriarch, and believe and claim that Anne was a daughter of Davis Davenport.
		Davenport was remarkable for a cheerful disposition and for benevolence of heart; it is said he never was involved in a law suit but once and then by being security for a debt.
	www.jgrussell.com /famtree/p36.htm (2214 words)

	Men and Officers who served in King Philips War = soldiers.htm
		Nathaniel Davenport was born in Salem, Mass., and was the son of Richard Davenport and his wife Elizabeth Hathorn.
		James Oliver was the son of Thomas and Ann, who came from England, Bristol, Somersetshire, in the ship "William and Francis" March 8, 1632 with their family of six sons and two daughters.
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	bigelowsociety.com /rod/soldiers.htm (2466 words)

	Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers - BetterManagement.com
		In his new book Thinking for a Living and this webcast, Tom Davenport argues that knowledge workers are vastly different from other types of workers in their motivations, attitudes, and need for autonomy--and so they require different management techniques to improve their performance and productivity.
		Davenport identifies four major categories of knowledge workers and presents a unique framework for matching specific types of workers with the management strategies that yield the greatest performance.
		Davenport's areas of expertise are in business intelligence, knowledge management and knowledge worker productivity, enterprise systems and process management.
	www.bettermanagement.com /seminars/seminar.aspx?libraryid=12745 (617 words)

	Thomas Davenport Invented First Electric Motor
		Earl Davenport, 70, inventor of an over-unity motor and generator (and the alternator, when he was 12), is the direct offspring of Thomas Davenport
		But the honor of inventing and patenting the first electric motor went to Vermont native Thomas Davenport, a flsmith (see "The Blacksmith's Motor," July 1999).
		Davenport's motor design instituted the first configuration of a commutator, whose concept is used in electric motors today."
	www.perentech.com /devices/davenport/history/thomas_davenport.htm (261 words)

	Amazon.com: Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thomas Davenport, director of the Institute for Strategic Change at Andersen Consulting and a professor of information management at Boston University, advocates integrated enterprise systems (or ESs) to expedite the process.
		Yet, says Tom Davenport, unless managers view ES adoption and implementation as a business decision rather than a technology decision, they may be risking disappointment Mission Critical presents an authoritative and no-nonsense view of the ES opportunities and challenges.
		Davenport does a brilliant job of explaining what enterprise systems are and what they can accomplish in any organization.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0875849067?v=glance (2429 words)

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