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George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.

1859 - 1896

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George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (February 14, 1859 – November 22, 1896) was an American civil engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. has received more than 468,549 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. is the 343rd most popular inventor (down from 306th in 2019), the 7,275th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,007th in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. ranks 343 out of 426. Before him are Joseph Bramah, Georges Beuchat, An Wang, Jozef Murgaš, Joseph Timchenko, and John Philip Holland. After him are Hary Gunarto, Didi Senft, Joy Mangano, Albrecht Berblinger, John Fitch, and Oliver Evans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. ranks 120. Before him are Luigi Capello, Pandeli Evangjeli, Stefan Toshev, Karel Halíř, Cecilia Grierson, and Nathaniel Lord Britton. After him are Vincenzo Cerulli, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anatole Le Braz, Alfredo Baquerizo, Theobald Smith, and Cass Gilbert. Among people deceased in 1896, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. ranks 77. Before him are Hugo Gyldén, George du Maurier, Theodore Robinson, Adalbert Krueger, Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, and Ilya Berezin. After him are Johannes Müller Argoviensis, William Quan Judge, Narciso Campero, Eugen Baumann, Paul Arène, and Coventry Patmore.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. ranks 7,275 out of 20,380. Before him are June Gable (1945), Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779), Aileen Pringle (1895), Mildred Dunnock (1901), Edith Clarke (1883), and Andrew Stanton (1965). After him are Mary Beth Peil (1940), James Foley (1953), Tim Daly (1956), James Hall (1811), Maude Fealy (1883), and Bill Maher (1956).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. ranks 87. Before him are Patricia Bath (1942), Jay Miner (1932), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Orville Gibson (1856), Hannibal Goodwin (1822), and Beulah Louise Henry (1888). After him are Joy Mangano (1956), John Fitch (1743), Oliver Evans (1755), Charles Darrow (1889), Jerry Lawson (1940), and Frank J. Sprague (1857).

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