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Elias Howe

1819 - 1867

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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elias Howe has received more than 572,229 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Elias Howe is the 157th most popular inventor (up from 158th in 2019), the 2,253rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,040th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 66.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Elias Howe ranks 157 out of 355. Before him are Robert Cailliau, Max Skladanowsky, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Charles Cros, Georges Hébert, and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse. After him are Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Gerald Bull, Melvil Dewey, Ottaviano Petrucci, Siegfried Marcus, and Oskar Barnack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Elias Howe ranks 37. Before him are Théodore Chassériau, Roger Fenton, Abner Doubleday, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, and Otto Wilhelm von Struve. After him are Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Wilhelm Marr, Felice Orsini, Narcís Monturiol, and Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Among people deceased in 1867, Elias Howe ranks 21. Before him are Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, Peter von Cornelius, Archduchess Mathilda of Austria, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Giovanni Pacini, and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse. After him are Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Armand Trousseau, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Miguel Miramón, and Takasugi Shinsaku.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elias Howe ranks 2,253 out of 15,968. Before him are Agnes Smedley (1892), Richard Schiff (1955), Lee Grant (1927), Ann Morgan Guilbert (1928), Steven Chu (1948), and J. Michael Bishop (1936). After him are Thomas P. Stafford (1930), Tom Ford (1961), Damon Wayans (1960), Tito Puente (1923), Frank Zane (1942), and William Le Baron Jenney (1832).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Elias Howe ranks 37. Before him are Lee de Forest (1873), Mary Anderson (1862), Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Josiah Warren (1798), and Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890). After him are Melvil Dewey (1851), Charles Martin Hall (1863), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Ruth Handler (1916), Eli Whitney (1765), and Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834).

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