INVENTOR

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 199,637 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. François Isaac de Rivaz is the 269th most popular inventor (down from 216th in 2019), the 3,665th most popular biography from France (down from 2,698th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

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  • 51.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 269 out of 426. Before him are Frederick Scott Archer, Harry Brearley, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Louis Lumière, Walter Clopton Wingfield, and Colin Archer. After him are Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Glenn Curtiss, Adolf Martens, Cyrus McCormick, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, and Theodore Maiman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 29. Before him are Anton Walter, Alexander Tormasov, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Frances Burney, and Maurice d'Elbée. After him are Albrecht Thaer, Antonio Scarpa, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Barnaba Oriani, Palisot de Beauvois, and Gouverneur Morris. Among people deceased in 1828, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 30. Before him are Gilbert Stuart, Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles, Lady Caroline Lamb, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Jacques Lauriston, and Eise Eisinga. After him are Albrecht Thaer, Christian August Lorentzen, Michael von Kienmayer, Manuel Dorrego, Anne Seymour Damer, and Thomas Bewick.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 3,665 out of 6,770. Before him are Napoléon Henri Reber (1807), Gérard Larcher (1949), Guillaume Musso (1974), Claude Dauphin (1903), Pierre Montet (1885), and Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury (1914). After him are Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817), François Bordes (1919), Theo Hernandez (1997), Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (1851), Guy Ropartz (1864), and Claude Fleury (1640).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 35. Before him are Émile Baudot (1845), Georges Hébert (1875), Léon Gaumont (1864), Wan Hu (1510), Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815), and Louis Lumière (1864). After him are André Blondel (1863), Henri Fabre (1882), Georges Beuchat (1910), and Franky Zapata (1978).

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