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George Pullman

1831 - 1897

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George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured it. This ultimately led to the Pullman Strike due to the high rent prices charged for company housing and low wages paid by the Pullman Company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Pullman has received more than 661,017 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). George Pullman is the 223rd most popular inventor (down from 184th in 2019), the 3,388th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,703rd in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 660k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, George Pullman ranks 223 out of 426. Before him are George Washington, Josip Belušić, Max Skladanowsky, Walter Hunt, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, and Vittorio Jano. After him are Lou Ottens, Robert Watson-Watt, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Alexander Parkes, Aurel Stodola, and Marcian Hoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, George Pullman ranks 52. Before him are Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Mary Mapes Dodge, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Wilhelm Raabe, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, and Konstantin Leontiev. After him are Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Arsenio Martínez Campos, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Paolo Mantegazza, Henri Meilhac, and Subh-i-Azal. Among people deceased in 1897, George Pullman ranks 35. Before him are Minna Canth, Léon Boëllmann, Viktor Meyer, David Schwarz, Antonio Bazzini, and Fritz Müller. After him are Julius von Sachs, Panteleimon Kulish, Charles-Denis Bourbaki, Charles Boycott, Karol Mikuli, and Henri Meilhac.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Pullman ranks 3,388 out of 20,380. Before him are Mariska Hargitay (1964), Matthew Fox (1966), Evel Knievel (1938), Douglas Tompkins (1943), Chris Tucker (1971), and Ma Rainey (1886). After him are Tom Hulce (1953), Philip Kaufman (1936), Edwin Catmull (1945), Harlan Ellison (1934), Alex Haley (1921), and Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš (1964).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, George Pullman ranks 55. Before him are Raymond Damadian (1936), Melvil Dewey (1851), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Robert Metcalfe (1946), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), and Walter Hunt (1796). After him are Marcian Hoff (1937), Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Ray Dolby (1933), Frank Zamboni (1901), and Laurens Hammond (1895).

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