1846 - 1914
George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of 19. Westinghouse saw the potential of using alternating current for electric power distribution in the early 1880s and put all his resources into developing and marketing it. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Westinghouse has received more than 1,994,619 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). George Westinghouse is the 32nd most popular inventor (down from 25th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from United States (down from 218th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Inventor.
George Westinghouse is most famous for his invention of the air brake.
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Among inventors, George Westinghouse ranks 32 out of 354. Before him are Werner von Siemens, James Naismith, Steve Wozniak, Denis Papin, Ernő Rubik, and Bartolomeo Cristofori. After him are Robert Fulton, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Abbas ibn Firnas, László Bíró, Ismail al-Jazari, and Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.
1816 - 1892
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 26
1861 - 1939
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 27
1950 - Present
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 28
1647 - 1712
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 29
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 30
1655 - 1731
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 31
1846 - 1914
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 32
1765 - 1815
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 33
1752 - 1834
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 34
810 - 887
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 35
1899 - 1985
HPI: 69.31
Rank: 36
1136 - 1206
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 37
1725 - 1804
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 38
Among people born in 1846, George Westinghouse ranks 5. Before him are Peter Carl Fabergé, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, and Princess Helena of the United Kingdom. After him are Buffalo Bill, Edmondo De Amicis, Comte de Lautréamont, Wilhelm Maybach, Wladimir Köppen, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, and Gaston Maspero. Among people deceased in 1914, George Westinghouse ranks 7. Before him are Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Pope Pius X, Charles Albert Gobat, Bertha von Suttner, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Frédéric Mistral. After him are Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Paul Heyse, Carol I of Romania, August Weismann, Jean Jaurès, and Georg Trakl.
1846 - 1920
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 1
1846 - 1916
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 2
1846 - 1926
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 3
1846 - 1923
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 4
1846 - 1914
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 5
1846 - 1917
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 6
1846 - 1908
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 7
1846 - 1870
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 8
1846 - 1929
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 9
1846 - 1940
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 10
1846 - 1930
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 11
1846 - 1916
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 12
1863 - 1914
HPI: 79.42
Rank: 1
1835 - 1914
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 2
1843 - 1914
HPI: 71.32
Rank: 3
1843 - 1914
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 4
1839 - 1914
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 5
1830 - 1914
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 6
1846 - 1914
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 7
1868 - 1914
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 8
1830 - 1914
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 9
1839 - 1914
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 10
1834 - 1914
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 11
1859 - 1914
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 12
1887 - 1914
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 13
Among people born in United States, George Westinghouse ranks 256 out of 18,182. Before him are Joe Dassin (1938), Calvin Coolidge (1872), Paul Samuelson (1915), John Cage (1912), Rocky Marciano (1923), and Ray Kroc (1902). After him are Oliver Hardy (1892), Gwyneth Paltrow (1972), John Dillinger (1903), Nina Simone (1933), Christopher Lloyd (1938), and Mary Cassatt (1844).
1938 - 1980
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 250
1872 - 1933
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 251
1915 - 2009
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 252
1912 - 1992
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 253
1923 - 1969
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 254
1902 - 1984
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 255
1846 - 1914
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 256
1892 - 1957
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 257
1972 - Present
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 258
1903 - 1934
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 259
1933 - 2003
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 260
1938 - Present
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 261
1844 - 1926
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 262
Among inventors born in United States, George Westinghouse ranks 6. Before him are Thomas Edison (1847), Henry Ford (1863), Samuel Morse (1791), Samuel Colt (1814), and Steve Wozniak (1950). After him are Robert Fulton (1765), Herman Hollerith (1860), Charles Goodyear (1800), William G. Morgan (1870), Willis Carrier (1876), and Isaac Singer (1811).
1847 - 1931
HPI: 90.99
Rank: 1
1863 - 1947
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 2
1791 - 1872
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 3
1814 - 1862
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 4
1950 - Present
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 5
1846 - 1914
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 6
1765 - 1815
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 7
1860 - 1929
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 8
1800 - 1860
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 10
1876 - 1950
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 11
1811 - 1875
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 12