As a sharp example one might point to Thomas Davidson, whom William James called individualist à outrance. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Davidson builds Electric Locomotive. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
About the same time Robert Davidson, a Scotchman, experimented with an electric railway car sixteen feet long, weighing six tons, and attaining a speed of four miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
In his traction work he had a close second in Robert Davidson, of Aberdeen, Scotland, who in 1839 operated both a lathe and a small locomotive with the motor he had invented. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.