INVENTOR

Clément Ader

1841 - 1925

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Clément Ader (French pronunciation: [klemɑ̃ adɛʁ]; 2 April 1841 – 3 May 1925) was a French inventor and engineer who was born near Toulouse in Muret, Haute-Garonne, and died in Toulouse. He is remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clément Ader has received more than 233,802 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Clément Ader is the 108th most popular inventor (up from 118th in 2019), the 1,257th most popular biography from France (up from 1,402nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Inventor.

Clément Ader was a French inventor and engineer who is most famous for his invention of the first working man-carrying flying machine, the Éole.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Clément Ader ranks 108 out of 426. Before him are Louis Le Prince, Jacque Fresco, John Harrison, Edmund Cartwright, Joseph Pilates, and Johann Philipp Reis. After him are Abraham-Louis Breguet, Gaston Glock, Lee de Forest, Léon Theremin, Alfred Krupp, and Zacharias Janssen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Clément Ader ranks 20. Before him are Nicholas I of Montenegro, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Armand Fallières, Emmanuel Chabrier, Armand Guillaumin, and Louis Le Prince. After him are Ahmed ‘Urabi, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Ferdinand Buisson, Victor D'Hondt, Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, and Hermann Carl Vogel. Among people deceased in 1925, Clément Ader ranks 36. Before him are Oliver Heaviside, Fritz Haarmann, Percy Fawcett, John Singer Sargent, H. Rider Haggard, and Pierre Louÿs. After him are Johann Palisa, Max Linder, Lovis Corinth, Christian Krohg, Boris Savinkov, and Robert Koldewey.

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In France

Among people born in France, Clément Ader ranks 1,257 out of 6,770. Before him are Anthony, Duke of Brabant (1384), Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734), Didier Pironi (1952), Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460), Élisabeth Borne (1961), and Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (1393). After him are Philipp Spener (1635), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Jules Chéret (1836), Guy, Count of Flanders (1226), André Masson (1896), and Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Clément Ader ranks 17. Before him are Claude Chappe (1763), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), and Louis Le Prince (1841). After him are Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), André Michelin (1853), Henri Giffard (1825), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), and Édouard Branly (1844).

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