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Frank Piasecki

1919 - 2008

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Frank Nicolas Piasecki ( pee-ə-SEK-ee; Polish: [pjaˈsɛtski]; October 24, 1919 – February 11, 2008) was an American engineer and helicopter aviation pioneer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Piasecki has received more than 118,053 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Frank Piasecki is the 371st most popular inventor (down from 332nd in 2019), the 8,374th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,072nd in 2019) and the 100th most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Frank Piasecki ranks 371 out of 426. Before him are Amar Bose, William Friese-Greene, Lewis Howard Latimer, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Henry J. Kaiser, and Per Georg Scheutz. After him are Andrew Viterbi, Arunachalam Muruganantham, Margaret E. Knight, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, William Fothergill Cooke, and Karl Jatho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Frank Piasecki ranks 292. Before him are Marge Champion, Jean Tamini, Gevorg Emin, Marie Windsor, Vladimír Vašíček, and Pief Panofsky. After him are Ross Bagdasarian, Forrest Tucker, Alexander Courage, Bill Nicholson, George E. P. Box, and Kurt Wires. Among people deceased in 2008, Frank Piasecki ranks 287. Before him are Rudolf Illovszky, Brad Renfro, Peter Poreku Dery, Jesse Helms, Richey Edwards, and Rubén Héctor Sosa. After him are Ai Iijima, Marilyn Ferguson, Don McKenzie, Finn Haunstoft, Laurus Škurla, and Antonio José González Zumárraga.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Piasecki ranks 8,374 out of 20,380. Before him are Tranquilo Cappozzo (1918), Dale Fuller (1885), Harriet Quimby (1875), Lisa Marie (1968), James Drury (1934), and Owen D. Young (1874). After him are Lee Calhoun (1933), Raymond T. Odierno (1954), Sophia Bush (1982), Henry Dreyfuss (1904), Barbara Bonney (1956), and Madeleine L'Engle (1918).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Frank Piasecki ranks 100. Before him are Almon Brown Strowger (1839), George Stibitz (1904), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Amar Bose (1929), Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), and Henry J. Kaiser (1882). After him are Margaret E. Knight (1838), Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860), Herbert E. Ives (1882), and Robert S. Langer (1948).

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