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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 111,363 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Ammi Cutter is the 366th most popular inventor, the 9,890th most popular biography from United States and the 105th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Charles Ammi Cutter ranks 366 out of 354Before him are Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Lewis Howard Latimer, Bette Nesmith Graham, Frank J. Sprague, Roger C. Field, and Christopher C. Kraft Jr.. After him are Peter Cooper, Mohamed M. Atalla, Arnold Orville Beckman, Richard Pearse, Arthur Fry, and Walter Frederick Morrison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Charles Ammi Cutter ranks 102Before him are Pedro Varela, Theodor Rosetti, Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, Richard A. Proctor, Georg Ossian Sars, and Georg Bühler. After him are Mark Hanna, Nell Arthur, John Burroughs, and Joaquin Miller. Among people deceased in 1903, Charles Ammi Cutter ranks 67Before him are Robert Planquette, Nicolaas Beets, František Ladislav Rieger, István Bittó, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, and Rafael Zaldívar. After him are Edwin Lord Weeks, Herbert Vaughan, and Alexander Ramsey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Ammi Cutter ranks 9,890 out of 18,182Before him are John Perry Barlow (1947), Bucky Pizzarelli (1926), Rick Berman (1945), Esther Ralston (1902), Lyle Campbell (1942), and Clem Burke (1954). After him are Peter Ryan (1940), Peter Shor (1959), Kevin Williamson (1965), Carl Shy (1908), Zach Roerig (1985), and Anna Belknap (1972).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Charles Ammi Cutter ranks 105Before him are George Beauchamp (1899), Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860), Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Bette Nesmith Graham (1924), Frank J. Sprague (1857), and Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924). After him are Peter Cooper (1791), Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Arthur Fry (1931), Walter Frederick Morrison (1920), John F. Seitz (1892), and Charles F. Kettering (1958).