Robert Davidson

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. He 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.