# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-davidson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:25:24.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-davidson"
name: "Robert Davidson"
slug: "robert-davidson"
description: "Robert Davidson was a Scottish inventor who built the first known electric four wheeled car in 1839 and in 1842 the first known electric locomotive.\nHe was a lifelong resident of Aberdeen, northeast Scotland, where he was a prosperous chemist and dyer, amongst other ventures. Davidson was educated at Marischal College, where he studied second and third year classes from 1819-1821, including lectures from Professor Patrick Copland. He got this education in return for being a lab assistant."
tagline: "British inventor, built first electric locomotive (1804–1894)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ROBERT-DAVIDSON-NEW-PICTURE-DavidsonColour-taken-in-1870s-1-743x1152.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1804-04-18"
deathDate: "1894-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.72
  momentum:             5.342465753424657
  historical:           7.881462666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Роберт Девідсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B9)"
    title: "روبرت ديفيدسون (مخترع)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Davidson_(Erfinder)"
    title: "Robert Davidson (Erfinder)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Davidson_(inventor)"
    title: "Robert Davidson (inventor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Davidson_(inventisto)"
    title: "Robert Davidson (inventisto)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Davidson_(ing%C3%A9nieur)"
    title: "Robert Davidson (ingénieur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Davidson"
    title: "Robert Davidson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Дэвидсон, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Davidson_(inventor)"
    title: "Robert Davidson (inventor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2156853"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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