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Charles Ammi Cutter

1837 - 1903

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Charles Ammi Cutter (March 14, 1837 – September 6, 1903) was an American librarian. In the 1850s and 1860s he assisted with the re-cataloging of the Harvard College library, producing America's first public card catalog. The card system proved more flexible for librarians and far more useful to patrons than the old method of entering titles in chronological order in large books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Ammi Cutter has received more than 117,536 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Ammi Cutter is the 409th most popular inventor (down from 366th in 2019), the 12,204th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,868th in 2019) and the 121st most popular American Inventor.

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  • 2.75

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Charles Ammi Cutter ranks 409 out of 426. Before him are Charles F. Kettering, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Kamil Tolon, Richard Pearse, Roger C. Field, and Clarence Birdseye. After him are Lawrence Hargrave, John F. Seitz, Sarah E. Goode, Frank Hornby, Marc Andreessen, and Valerie Thomas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Charles Ammi Cutter ranks 114. Before him are José Burgos, Georg Bühler, Richard A. Proctor, Nell Arthur, Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann, and Mark Hanna. After him are P. B. S. Pinchback, John Burroughs, and Joaquin Miller. Among people deceased in 1903, Charles Ammi Cutter ranks 74. Before him are Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen, Rafael Zaldívar, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin, Andrew Ainslie Common, and Edwin Lord Weeks. After him are Herbert Vaughan, and Alexander Ramsey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Ammi Cutter ranks 12,204 out of 20,380. Before him are Ralph Lewis (1872), Martha Hudson (1939), Derek Jeter (1974), Rosanne Cash (1955), Cara Williams (1925), and Naomi Grossman (1975). After him are Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922), Jacob Lawrence (1917), Virginia Brown Faire (1904), Rick Santorum (1958), Gina Rodriguez (1984), and Lita (1975).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Charles Ammi Cutter ranks 121. Before him are Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Peter Cooper (1791), Arthur Fry (1931), Charles F. Kettering (1958), Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922), and Clarence Birdseye (1886). After him are John F. Seitz (1892), Sarah E. Goode (1855), Marc Andreessen (1971), Valerie Thomas (1943), Harold Stephen Black (1898), and Tony Fadell (1969).

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