Iron County Record | 1918-10-11 | Page 3 | Beginnings of Great Things

Beginnings of Qreat Things. On July Mi 1H-I7. the first electric magnetic locomotive wns exhibited and operated. The exhibition wns mnde In the town hall of Dover, N. II.. by Its Inventor, Moses (1. Kurmer. It carried severnl people, who were doubtless the first paaasssgara transported on a railroad by el.-ctrlclty lu the United States. Farmer lectured upon the Invention In-vention ar various Eastern points, after which he opened a telegraph office, of-fice, where he devised the well-known tire alarm apparatus. As early as 18T0 Professor Farmer predicted, among other results, the tnlklng exactly as we talk today by telephone, and he also saw the feasibility of electric traction by means of the stornge battery bat-tery and trolley system now In use. He alao Invented a llylng machine, hut his sudden death prevented his bringing bring-ing It before the world.