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Ernst Alexanderson

1878 - 1975

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Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson (January 25, 1878 – May 14, 1975) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer, who was a pioneer in radio and television development. He invented the Alexanderson alternator, an early radio transmitter used between 1906 and the 1930s for longwave long distance radio transmission. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Alexanderson has received more than 94,535 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ernst Alexanderson is the 256th most popular inventor (down from 253rd in 2019), the 420th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 438th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ernst Alexanderson ranks 256 out of 354Before him are Aimo Lahti, Walter Hunt, Aurel Stodola, Eunice Newton Foote, Colin Archer, and Pavel Yablochkov. After him are Tivadar Puskás, Samuel Morland, Cyrus McCormick, Vittorio Jano, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, and James Nasmyth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Ernst Alexanderson ranks 116Before him are Pierre Fatou, Lina Stern, Victor Segalen, Konrad Mägi, Takeo Arishima, and Agner Krarup Erlang. After him are Karl Buresch, Paul Renner, Selim Palmgren, Egon Friedell, Anna Coleman Ladd, and Charles Dvorak. Among people deceased in 1975, Ernst Alexanderson ranks 106Before him are Michał Sopoćko, Shigeyoshi Inoue, Virginio Rosetta, Gustav von Wangenheim, Jacques Duclos, and Richard Conte. After him are Mark Donohue, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Vladimir Kuts, Annette Kellermann, W. V. D. Hodge, and Louis Van Hege.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Ernst Alexanderson ranks 420 out of 1,612Before him are Marika Green (1943), Bengt Strömgren (1908), Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874), Gunilla Bergström (1942), Amalia Lindegren (1814), and Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp (1883). After him are Bernhard Karlgren (1889), Gösta Ekman (1890), Peter Artedi (1705), Jan Eliasson (1940), Ernst Josephson (1851), and Svante Pääbo (1955).

Among INVENTORS In Sweden

Among inventors born in Sweden, Ernst Alexanderson ranks 4Before him are Gideon Sundback (1880), John Ericsson (1803), and Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846). After him are Victor Hasselblad (1906) and Simone Giertz (1990).