INVENTOR

Alphonse Beau de Rochas

1815 - 1893

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Alphonse Eugène Beau de Rochas (9 April 1815, Digne-les-Bains, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 27 March 1893, Vincennes) was a French engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alphonse Beau de Rochas has received more than 48,911 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Alphonse Beau de Rochas is the 265th most popular inventor (down from 235th in 2019), the 3,612th most popular biography from France (down from 2,890th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Alphonse Beau de Rochas ranks 265 out of 426. Before him are Arthur Wynne, Jacob W. Davis, Wan Hu, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Frederick Scott Archer, and Harry Brearley. After him are Louis Lumière, Walter Clopton Wingfield, Colin Archer, François Isaac de Rivaz, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, and Glenn Curtiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Alphonse Beau de Rochas ranks 50. Before him are Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Robert Volkmann, Johann Gottfried Piefke, and Crawford Long. After him are Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Aleksandr Baryatinsky, James B. Francis, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, Alexander von Keyserling, and Edward Forbes. Among people deceased in 1893, Alphonse Beau de Rochas ranks 51. Before him are Pierre Tirard, Antonio Ghislanzoni, Arabo, Franz Grashof, Robert Cornelius, and Anton von Schmerling. After him are Jean Dufresne, Georgi Pulevski, Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., Concepción Arenal, Ibrahim Edhem Pasha, and Adolphe Yvon.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alphonse Beau de Rochas ranks 3,612 out of 6,770. Before him are Adolphe d'Archiac (1802), Roger Carel (1927), Patrick Strzoda (1952), Robert Garnier (1534), Robbie Ross (1869), and Louis Boyer (1901). After him are Josiane Balasko (1950), Maxime Bossis (1955), Honoré Charles Reille (1775), Alfred Perot (1863), Louis Pergaud (1882), and Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires (1753).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Alphonse Beau de Rochas ranks 33. Before him are Georges Claude (1870), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Émile Baudot (1845), Georges Hébert (1875), Léon Gaumont (1864), and Wan Hu (1510). After him are Louis Lumière (1864), François Isaac de Rivaz (1752), André Blondel (1863), Henri Fabre (1882), Georges Beuchat (1910), and Franky Zapata (1978).

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