Student Education Repository (மாணவர்கள் கல்விக் களஞ்சியம்): Today (December 4, 1850) is the anniversary of William Sturgeon, the inventor of the first electric magnet and the inventor of the practical electric motor.

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Today (December 4, 1850) is the anniversary of William Sturgeon, the inventor of the first electric magnet and the inventor of the practical electric motor.

Today (December 4, 1850) is the anniversary of William Sturgeon, the inventor of the first electric magnet and the inventor of the practical electric motor.

William Sturgeon was born May 22, 1783, in Whittington, near Cornford, Lancashire, England. Trained with a shoemaker. In 1802 Sturgeon joined the army. He also studied mathematics and physics. In 1824 he became a science and philosophy lecturer at the East India Company's military seminar in Addiscombe, Surrey. The following year he exhibited his first electromagnet. The first electromagnet he built was a horse-shaped wrought iron. When the current passes through the coil, the electromagnet becomes magnetic, and when the current is stopped, the coil becomes magnetic. Sturgeon showed its strength by raising 9 pounds of iron with seven ounces of iron covered by wires that transmitted the current of a single cell battery. Through this, a current was sent from a battery.

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Electricity can regulate its electromagnetism — that is, it can adjust the magnetic field by adjusting the electric field. It was the beginning of the use of electricity to create effective and controllable machines and laid the foundations for large-scale electronic communications. In 1832 he was appointed lecturer at the Adelaide Gallery of Practical Science in London. Where D.C. He first proved that an electric motor includes a commutator. In 1836 he founded the Journal of the Annals of Electricity, Magnetism and Chemistry. In the same year, he invented a galvanometer. Sturgeon was a close associate of John Peter Cassiat and Charles Vincent Walker, and all three were instrumental in founding the London Electrical Society in 1837.

In 1840 he became supervisor of the Royal Victoria Gallery of Practical Science in Manchester. He formed a close social circle with John Davis, one of the promoters of the gallery, and James Prescott Joule, a student of Davis. It eventually included Edward William Binny and surgeon John Lay. The gallery was closed in 1842. And he led a life of discourse and demonstration. William Sturgeon, the inventor of the electric motor, passed away on December 4, 1850, at the age of 67 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. He was buried there, in the church of St. Mary the Virgin, where he is identified as "William Sturgeon - The Electrician" on the grave floor.

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