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Franciszek Rychnowski

1850 - 1929

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Franciszek Rychnowski (1850 - 1929) was a Polish engineer and an inventor, who also lectured at the Lwów Politechnic. In addition to mundane projects (he was involved with electrification, central heating and the tram system in Lwów, which is now Lviv, Ukraine), he also gained fame for his pseudoscientific theories on eteroid, similar to the concepts of élan vital or orgone; involvement with such pseudoscientific theories eventually ruined his career. Rychnowski is a minor character in a series of books by the modern Polish author, Andrzej Pilipiuk. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franciszek Rychnowski has received more than 10,498 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Franciszek Rychnowski is the 300th most popular engineer (down from 298th in 2019), the 643rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 611th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Franciszek Rychnowski ranks 300 out of 389. Before him are William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, K. Eric Drexler, Hesham Qandil, Peter Schreyer, Yaakov Ziv, and Mal Evans. After him are Frederick Terman, Percy Hobart, Arthur E. Kennelly, Sam Eyde, Guenther Steiner, and Isaac Roberts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Franciszek Rychnowski ranks 96. Before him are Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna, Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, Hans von Berlepsch, László Lukács, Ion Andreescu, and Jean de Reszke. After him are Betzy Akersloot-Berg, Franziskus von Bettinger, Alfred Maudslay, Hermann Möller, Eduard Sievers, and Jane Ellen Harrison. Among people deceased in 1929, Franciszek Rychnowski ranks 120. Before him are Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, David Dunbar Buick, Giacomo Bresadola, Jozef Murgaš, Eugenio Tosi, and André Messager. After him are Otto Liebe, Edward Carpenter, Robert Ridgway, Walther Katzenstein, Antoni Lange, and Ödön Tersztyánszky.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Franciszek Rychnowski ranks 643 out of 1,200. Before him are Zdeněk Nejedlý (1878), Friedrich Gustav Piffl (1864), Vlastimil Tusar (1880), Emil František Burian (1904), Anton Heinrich Springer (1825), and Gerhard Auer (1943). After him are Martin Turnovský (1928), Josef Tošovský (1950), Karel Domin (1882), Čestmír Vycpálek (1921), Josef Labor (1842), and Karel Loprais (1949).

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Among ENGINEERS In Czechia

Among engineers born in Czechia, Franciszek Rychnowski ranks 5. Before him are Emil Škoda (1839), Karl von Terzaghi (1883), Alfred Neubauer (1891), and Eugen Sänger (1905). After him are Pavel Pavel (1957).

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