Emily Davenport
Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Emily Goss Davenport Weeks (April 29, 1810Template:Spaced ndashOctober 5, 1862) was an American inventor from Vermont. Together with her husband Thomas Davenport, they invented an electric motor and electric locomotive around 1834.<ref name="birtth">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="death">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="pomona">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Davenport kept detailed notes and actively contributed to the process of the inventions.<ref name="pomona" /> Needing to insulate the motor's iron core, Davenport cut her wedding dress into strips of silk to insulate the wire windings.<ref name="patently"> Template:Cite book</ref> She is also credited with the idea of using mercury as a conductor, enabling the motor to function for the first time.<ref name="patently" /> With her husband Thomas, and colleague Orange Smalley, she received the first American patent on an electric machine in 1837, U. S. Patent No. 132.<ref name="GP132">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This electric motor was used in 1840 to print The Electro-Magnet, and Mechanics Intelligencer - the first newspaper printed using electricity.
She was born Emily Goss in Brandon Vermont, one of five children born to Rufus Goss a local merchant and Anna Green.<ref name="Wicks">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She and Thomas Davenport lived in Salisbury, Vermont and had two children, George Daniel Davenport and Willard Goss Davenport. Thomas Davenport died in 1851 and Emily moved to Middlebury.<ref name="IA22">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On January 6, 1856 she married John Mosely Weeks in Salisbury, the inventor of the Vermont beehive.<ref name="IA22" />Template:What She died in 1862 and is buried in Pine Hill Cemetery in Brandon, Vermont.<ref name="death" />