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David Edward Hughes

1831 - 1900

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David Edward Hughes (16 May 1830 – 22 January 1900), was a British-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. He is generally considered to have been born in London but his family moved around that time so he may have been born in Corwen, Wales. His family moved to the U.S. while he was a child and he became a professor of music in Kentucky. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Edward Hughes has received more than 167,809 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. David Edward Hughes is the 195th most popular inventor (down from 167th in 2019), the 1,684th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,494th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 170k

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  • 55.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, David Edward Hughes ranks 195 out of 426. Before him are Samuel Pierpont Langley, Ottaviano Petrucci, Jethro Tull, Orban, Christopher Latham Sholes, and Charles Xavier Thomas. After him are Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Oskar Barnack, Eunice Newton Foote, Émile Baudot, David Schwarz, and Raymond Damadian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, David Edward Hughes ranks 43. Before him are Ankō Itosu, Princess Helena of Nassau, Siegfried Marcus, Philip Sheridan, Peter Nicolai Arbo, and Daniele Comboni. After him are Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Mary Mapes Dodge, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, and Wilhelm Raabe. Among people deceased in 1900, David Edward Hughes ranks 40. Before him are Stephen Crane, Vasily Kalinnikov, Mihály Munkácsy, Pyotr Lavrov, Henry Sidgwick, and Hermann Levi. After him are Bruno Abakanowicz, Sergei Korsakoff, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Eugenio Beltrami, Peter Waage, and Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Edward Hughes ranks 1,684 out of 8,785. Before him are Eric Knight (1897), Albert Austin (1881), James McAvoy (1979), Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766), Tim Staffell (1948), and Stephen Langton (1150). After him are Paul Rodgers (1949), David Tennant (1971), John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852), Robert Brown (1921), Christina Rossetti (1830), and Elizabeth de Burgh (1289).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, David Edward Hughes ranks 30. Before him are William Murdoch (1754), Elihu Thomson (1853), Matthew Boulton (1728), James Dyson (1947), Sandford Fleming (1827), and Jethro Tull (1674). After him are Henry Maudslay (1771), Oliver Lodge (1851), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Alexander Parkes (1813), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), and Clive Sinclair (1940).

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