INVENTOR

Adolphe Sax

1814 - 1894

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Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (French: [ɑ̃twan ʒozɛf adɔlf saks]; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba, and redesigned the bass clarinet in a fashion still used to the present day. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolphe Sax has received more than 2,467,878 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Adolphe Sax is the 39th most popular inventor (up from 43rd in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 46th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Inventor.

Adolphe Sax was a Belgian inventor and musician who is most famous for inventing the saxophone.

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  • 68.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Adolphe Sax ranks 39 out of 426. Before him are Eli Whitney, George Westinghouse, Igor Sikorsky, Robert Fulton, László Bíró, and Richard Trevithick. After him are Frank Whittle, John Logie Baird, Ruth Handler, Jimmy Wales, Konrad Zuse, and Wilhelm Maybach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Adolphe Sax ranks 6. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-François Millet, Taras Shevchenko, Samuel Colt, and Mikhail Lermontov. After him are Anders Jonas Ångström, Julius von Mayer, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Henri Nestlé, Hong Xiuquan, and Jenny von Westphalen. Among people deceased in 1894, Adolphe Sax ranks 6. Before him are Alexander III of Russia, Heinrich Hertz, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hermann von Helmholtz, and Ferdinand de Lesseps. After him are Lajos Kossuth, Gustave Caillebotte, Marie François Sadi Carnot, Anton Rubinstein, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, and Prince Philippe, Count of Paris.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Adolphe Sax ranks 53 out of 1,190. Before him are Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568), Jules Bordet (1870), Simon Stevin (1548), Margaret of Parma (1522), Julio Cortázar (1914), and Isabella of Austria (1501). After him are Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (1864), Pepin of Landen (585), Django Reinhardt (1910), Jacob Jordaens (1593), François Englert (1932), and Léon Degrelle (1906).

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Among INVENTORS In Belgium

Among inventors born in Belgium, Adolphe Sax ranks 1. After him are Étienne Lenoir (1822), Jacques Piccard (1922), Zénobe Gramme (1826), Paul Otlet (1868), Robert Cailliau (1947), and George Washington (1871).

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