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Woolrich Electrical Generator
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<p>The Woolrich Electrical Generator, now in <a href="/facts/Thinktank,_Birmingham_Science_Museum/spQdxEK3">Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum</a>, England, is the earliest <a href="/facts/Electrical_generator/5sATsUGX">electrical generator</a> used in an industrial process. Built in February 1844 at the Magneto Works of Thomas Prime and Son, Birmingham, to a design by John Stephen Woolrich (1820–1850), it was used by the firm of <a href="/facts/Elkington_Silver_Electroplating_Works/S9dlQt2N">Elkingtons</a> for commercial <a href="/facts/Electroplating/HbKf0SBb">electroplating</a>. </p>