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Glenn Curtiss

1878 - 1930

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Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Glenn Curtiss has received more than 708,566 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Glenn Curtiss is the 271st most popular inventor (down from 245th in 2019), the 4,698th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,779th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Glenn Curtiss ranks 271 out of 426. Before him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Louis Lumière, Walter Clopton Wingfield, Colin Archer, François Isaac de Rivaz, and Yoshiro Nakamatsu. After him are Adolf Martens, Cyrus McCormick, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, Theodore Maiman, Samuel Morland, and Michael S. Hart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Glenn Curtiss ranks 136. Before him are Pierre Fatou, Anna Coleman Ladd, Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, Max Dehn, Agner Krarup Erlang, and Karl Hofer. After him are Gyula Krúdy, Chen Qimei, Raymond Smith Dugan, Oton Župančič, Ernst Hoppenberg, and Siamanto. Among people deceased in 1930, Glenn Curtiss ranks 79. Before him are Carl Panzram, Olena Pchilka, Misuzu Kaneko, Władysław Horodecki, Alexander Bogomazov, and Herbert Hall Turner. After him are Joseph Achille Le Bel, Valeriano Weyler, Anna Lea Merritt, Mary Harris Jones, Enrico Forlanini, and Albert von Le Coq.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Glenn Curtiss ranks 4,698 out of 20,380. Before him are Ed Ablowich (1913), Frankie Faison (1949), Adlai Stevenson I (1835), Ram Dass (1931), Sanford Meisner (1905), and Louise Brough (1923). After him are Adam Driver (1983), William B. Travis (1809), Barry Corbin (1940), Fernando J. Corbató (1926), Barney Kessel (1923), and Dimebag Darrell (1966).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Glenn Curtiss ranks 63. Before him are Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Ray Dolby (1933), Frank Zamboni (1901), Laurens Hammond (1895), and Robert Cornelius (1809). After him are Cyrus McCormick (1809), Theodore Maiman (1927), Michael S. Hart (1947), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), Ralph Hartley (1888), and George Devol (1912).

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