Frank Julian Sprague

Frank Julian Sprague was born in Milford, Connecticut in 1857. He graduated from Annapolis in 1878. He was noted for making the electric railroad. He developed his interest while he was a cadet in the U.S. Naval Academy. Frank work as Thomas Edison’s assistant in 1883 and independently developed a superior electric motor that was readily adaptable to industrial machinery. In 1887 he installed the nation’s first electric trolley system in Richmond, Va., for which he …

…it. He was a real contributor in the electronics field because without him we probably wouldn’t have all the stuff we have today. Without him we wouldn’t have things like the electric cars, the electric scooters and all that stuff. I think if we didn’t power cars there would be even more pollution in the air than there is today. Without electric scooter kids wouldn't, be as lazy as they are today.