INVENTOR

Alberto Santos-Dumont

1873 - 1932

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Alberto Santos-Dumont, self-stylised as Alberto Santos=Dumont, (20 July 1873 – 23 July 1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, he dedicated himself to aeronautical study and experimentation in Paris, where he spent most of his adult life. He designed, built, and flew the first powered airships and won the Deutsch prize in 1901, when he flew around the Eiffel Tower in his airship No. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alberto Santos-Dumont has received more than 1,564,321 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Alberto Santos-Dumont is the 62nd most popular inventor (up from 65th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Brazil (down from 38th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Inventor.

Alberto Santos-Dumont is most famous for inventing the first successful heavier-than-air flying machine.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Alberto Santos-Dumont ranks 62 out of 426. Before him are Louis Renault, John Boyd Dunlop, Charles Goodyear, Henry Fox Talbot, Louis Blériot, and Adam Opel. After him are Isaac Singer, Cornelis Drebbel, John Browning, Étienne Lenoir, John Deere, and Jacques Piccard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Alberto Santos-Dumont ranks 16. Before him are Luigi Lucheni, Henri Barbusse, Alfred Jarry, Otto Loewi, Karl Schwarzschild, and Hans von Euler-Chelpin. After him are Julius Martov, G. E. Moore, Max Reger, Spyridon Louis, Sándor Ferenczi, and Pavlo Skoropadskyi. Among people deceased in 1932, Alberto Santos-Dumont ranks 10. Before him are Manuel II of Portugal, Giuseppe Peano, Aristide Briand, Paul Doumer, Gustav Meyrink, and Nadezhda Alliluyeva. After him are Errico Malatesta, George Eastman, Ronald Ross, Max Wolf, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, and Joseph Babinski.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Alberto Santos-Dumont ranks 41 out of 2,236. Before him are Sebastião Salgado (1944), Rivaldo (1972), Neymar (1992), João Gilberto (1931), Bebeto (1964), and Carlos Alberto Parreira (1943). After him are Gylmar dos Santos Neves (1930), José Altafini (1938), Kaká (1982), Cafu (1970), Zito (1932), and Leônidas (1913).

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Among INVENTORS In Brazil

Among inventors born in Brazil, Alberto Santos-Dumont ranks 1. After him are Bartolomeu de Gusmão (1685).

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