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Harry Ferguson

1884 - 1960

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Henry George Ferguson (4 November 1884 – 25 October 1960) was a British mechanic and inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modern agricultural tractor and its three point linkage system, for being the first person in Ireland to build and fly his own aeroplane, and for developing the first four-wheel drive Formula One car, the Ferguson P99. Today his name lives on in the name of the Massey Ferguson company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Ferguson has received more than 351,469 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Ferguson is the 324th most popular inventor (down from 296th in 2019).

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Harry Ferguson ranks 324 out of 426. Before him are Thomas Wedgwood, Victor Hasselblad, Kálmán Kandó, Tabitha Babbitt, Patricia Bath, and Jay Miner. After him are John Wilkinson, Edward Lawry Norton, Ivan Polzunov, Bernard Lown, Rostislav Alexeyev, and Orville Gibson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Harry Ferguson ranks 179. Before him are Ali Aaltonen, Nora Barnacle, Rodney Heath, Otto Froitzheim, Joseph Sweeney, and Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk. After him are Har Dayal, Kurt Behrens, Axel Norling, Georges Pitoëff, Nikolai Klyuev, and Samuel Berger. Among people deceased in 1960, Harry Ferguson ranks 162. Before him are Leonard Warren, Bogoljub Jevtić, Roscoe Lockwood, Gaston Amson, Harry Blanchard, and Roelof Klein. After him are Arthur Meighen, Buddy Adler, Nils Widforss, Walter Catlett, György Piller, and Arthur Benjamin.

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