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François Isaac de Rivaz

1752 - 1828

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François Isaac de Rivaz (December 19, 1752, in Paris – July 30, 1828, in Sion) was a French-born Swiss inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine with electric ignition and described it in a French patent published in 1807. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Isaac de Rivaz has received more than 189,226 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). François Isaac de Rivaz is the 216th most popular inventor (up from 243rd in 2019), the 2,707th most popular biography from France (up from 2,971st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 216 out of 354Before him are Robert Cornelius, Henry Maudslay, George de Mestral, Larry Sanger, Gaston Glock, and Émile Baudot. After him are Josip Belušić, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Henrich Focke, Robert Watson-Watt, Thonmi Sambhota, and Frederick Scott Archer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 22Before him are Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, Betsy Ross, John Nash, Andrey Razumovsky, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, and Torii Kiyonaga. After him are Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Anton Walter, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Maurice d'Elbée, Alexander Tormasov, and Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre. Among people deceased in 1828, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 21Before him are Radama I, Sineperver Sultan, Lady Caroline Lamb, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, James Edward Smith, and Richard Parkes Bonington. After him are Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Jacques Lauriston, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles, and Gilbert Stuart.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 2,707 out of 6,011Before him are Georges Cadoudal (1771), Petrus Comestor (1100), André Frossard (1915), Thomas, Count of Flanders (1199), Jean de Roquetaillade (1310), and Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154). After him are André Messager (1853), Pierre André de Suffren (1729), Marcel Granet (1884), Jorge Chávez (1887), Jean François de Troy (1679), and André Dussollier (1946).

Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 32Before him are Georges Claude (1870), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Édouard Branly (1844), Wan Hu (1510), Georges Hébert (1875), and Émile Baudot (1845). After him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815), Léon Gaumont (1864), André Blondel (1863), and Franky Zapata (1978).