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ThanksPeter.N. wrote: ↑21 Nov 2020, 01:07The first electric motors that were anything like the ones we have now were invented in the 1830's although experimental motors were made earlier than that. The first AC induction motors came about with the spread of AC supplies by Tesla, Edison who was in competition with him favoured DC and DC traction motors were used in trams and industry around the turn of last century.
Peter