Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1918 — Beginnings of Great Things. [ARTICLE]

Beginnings of Great Things.

On July 26, 1847, the first electric magnetic locomotive was exhibited and operated. The exhibition was ma'de in the town hall of Dover, N. H„ by its Inventor, Moses G. Farmer, It carried several people, who Were doubtless the first passengers transported on a railroad by electricity in the United States. Farmer lectured upon the invention at various Eastern points, after which he opened a telegraph office, where he devised the well-known fire alarm apparatus. As early as 1850 Professor Farmer predicted, among other results, the talking exactly as we talk- today by telephone, and he also saw the feasibility of electric traction by means of the storage battery and trolley system now in use. He also invented a flying machine, but his sudden death prevented his bringing it before the world.