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Place of birth:

Whittington Show on Google Maps

Birth date:

May 22, 1783 • Birth Sign: Gemini

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Death date:

December 4, 1850 (67 years old)

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thumb|right|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). William Sturgeon (; 22 May 1783 – 4 December 1850) was an English electrical engineer and inventor who made the first electromagnet and the first practical electric motor.

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