# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-garver-lamme
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:39:29.736Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-garver-lamme"
name: "Benjamin Garver Lamme"
slug: "benjamin-garver-lamme"
description: "Benjamin Garver Lamme was an American electrical engineer and chief engineer at Westinghouse, where he was responsible for the design of electrical power machines. Lamme created an efficient induction motor from Nikola Tesla's patents and went on to design the giant Niagara Falls generators and motors and the power plant of the Manhattan Elevated Railway in New York City."
tagline: "American electrical engineer (1864–1924)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_Garver_Lamme_circa_1915_facing_left.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1864-01-12"
deathDate: "1924-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.91
  momentum:             1.285714285714286
  historical:           8.072354666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Бенджамін Гарвер Ламме"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بنجامین لام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Benjamin G. Lamme"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_G._Lamme"
    title: "Benjamin G. Lamme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_G._Lamme"
    title: "Benjamin G. Lamme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "بنجامین لام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_G._Lamme"
    title: "Benjamin G. Lamme"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lamme"
    title: "Benjamin Lamme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Garver_Lamme"
    title: "Benjamin Garver Lamme"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381583"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump