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William Sturgeon was an English electrical engineer and inventor who made the first electromagnet and the first practical electric motor.
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![The first artificial electromagnet, invented by Sturgeon in 1824. Sturgeon's original drawing from his 1824 paper to the British Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. The magnet was made of 18 turns of bare copper wire (insulated wire had not yet been invented).[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Sturgeon_electromagnet.png/330px-Sturgeon_electromagnet.png)
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Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1783 to 1850 · aged 67
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