INVENTOR

Edwin Howard Armstrong

1890 - 1954

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Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Medal of Honor awarded by the Institute of Radio Engineers (now IEEE), the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal. He achieved the rank of major in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I and was often referred to as "Major Armstrong" during his career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Howard Armstrong has received more than 656,341 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Edwin Howard Armstrong is the 148th most popular inventor (up from 164th in 2019), the 2,090th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,415th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Edwin Howard Armstrong ranks 148 out of 426. Before him are John Kay, Sequoyah, Charles Algernon Parsons, Robert Stirling, Elias Howe, and Uziel Gal. After him are Viktor Schauberger, Bob Kahn, Jang Yeong-sil, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Alfred Vail, and Gideon Sundback.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Edwin Howard Armstrong ranks 72. Before him are Bacha Khan, Géza Lakatos, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Grigory Kulik, Norman Bethune, and Zeki Velidi Togan. After him are Bechara El Khoury, Yoshio Nishina, Elpidio Quirino, Seiichi Itō, He Yingqin, and Victoria Ocampo. Among people deceased in 1954, Edwin Howard Armstrong ranks 41. Before him are Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Archduke Eugen of Austria, Marianne Weber, Princess Margaret of Prussia, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, and Günther Quandt. After him are Ahmed Nihad, Viktor Abakumov, Gideon Sundback, Oscar Straus, Lionel Barrymore, and Stig Dagerman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Howard Armstrong ranks 2,090 out of 20,380. Before him are William C. Durant (1861), Richard Pryor (1940), Upton Sinclair (1878), Jennifer Lawrence (1990), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), and Garry Marshall (1934). After him are Don Walsh (1931), Jermaine Jackson (1954), Jonathan Frakes (1952), Leo McCarey (1898), Fredric Jameson (1934), and Ellen Barkin (1954).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Edwin Howard Armstrong ranks 37. Before him are Mary Anderson (1862), Elisha Gray (1835), Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), Robert Moog (1934), Sequoyah (1770), and Elias Howe (1819). After him are Bob Kahn (1938), Alfred Vail (1807), Garrett Morgan (1877), Royal Rife (1888), Philo Farnsworth (1906), and Charles Martin Hall (1863).

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