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Gustave Whitehead

1874 - 1927

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Gustave Albin Whitehead (born Gustav Albin Weisskopf; 1 January 1874 – 10 October 1927) was an aviation pioneer who emigrated from Germany to the United States where he designed and built gliders, flying machines, and engines between 1897 and 1915. Controversy surrounds published accounts and Whitehead's own claims that he flew a powered machine successfully several times in 1901 and 1902, predating the first flights by the Wright Brothers in 1903. Much of Whitehead's reputation rests on a newspaper article which was written as an eyewitness report and describes his powered and sustained flight in Connecticut on 14 August 1901. Over a hundred newspapers in the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustave Whitehead has received more than 441,370 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Gustave Whitehead is the 139th most popular engineer (down from 127th in 2019), the 2,511th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,251st in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Gustave Whitehead ranks 139 out of 389. Before him are Flaminio Bertoni, J. Walter Christie, Patrick Head, Johan August Brinell, Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, and Pierre Berthier. After him are Pierre-Émile Martin, Gabriel Voisin, Franz Reuleaux, Li Kui, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, and Kerim Kerimov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Gustave Whitehead ranks 83. Before him are William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lina Cavalieri, Laura Montoya, Clemens von Pirquet, Joseph Klausner, and Pierre Souvestre. After him are Rosa Albach-Retty, Nikolai Korotkov, Frédéric François-Marsal, Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria, Ernest Duchesne, and Wincenty Witos. Among people deceased in 1927, Gustave Whitehead ranks 63. Before him are Mikhail Artsybashev, Ion I. C. Brătianu, Robert Fuchs, Inayat Khan, Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Louise Catherine Breslau. After him are Luigi Luzzatti, Hermann Muthesius, Victoria Woodhull, Herman Gorter, Dawid Janowski, and Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustave Whitehead ranks 2,511 out of 7,253. Before him are Manfred Wörner (1934), Theo Albrecht (1922), Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1636), Prince George William of Hanover (1915), Louise Catherine Breslau (1856), and Dora Ratjen (1918). After him are Jürgen Sparwasser (1948), Ulrich Graf (1878), Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria (1878), Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1851), Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1817), and Walter Frentz (1907).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Gustave Whitehead ranks 18. Before him are Walter Dornberger (1895), John A. Roebling (1806), Alexander Lippisch (1894), Claude Dornier (1884), Christian Otto Mohr (1835), and Erich Topp (1914). After him are Franz Reuleaux (1829), Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), Anton Flettner (1885), Hellmuth Walter (1900), Hugo Eckener (1868), and Franz Grashof (1826).

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