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Heinrich Göbel

1818 - 1893

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Heinrich Göbel (April 20, 1818 – December 4, 1893) was a German-born American precision mechanic and inventor also known by his anglicized name Henry Goebel. In 1848 he immigrated to New York City, where he resided until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Göbel has received more than 131,656 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Heinrich Göbel is the 156th most popular inventor (down from 142nd in 2019), the 1,895th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,596th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Heinrich Göbel ranks 156 out of 426. Before him are Bob Kahn, Jang Yeong-sil, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Alfred Vail, Gideon Sundback, and Peter Henlein. After him are Fausto Veranzio, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Garrett Morgan, William Murdoch, Hovannes Adamian, and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Heinrich Göbel ranks 39. Before him are Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tewodros II, Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Marco Minghetti, P. G. T. Beauregard, Franciscus Donders, Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, and Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann. Among people deceased in 1893, Heinrich Göbel ranks 24. Before him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Alfredo Catalani, Ferenc Erkel, Abner Doubleday, Alexander Cunningham, and George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. After him are Leland Stanford, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, P. G. T. Beauregard, George Tupou I, Aleksandra Potanina, and Ford Madox Brown.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Göbel ranks 1,895 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1800), Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751), Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769), Friedrich Hossbach (1894), Dieter Schwarz (1939), and Ernst Busch (1900). After him are Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria (1235), Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Lorenz Oken (1779), Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759), Johann Kirnberger (1721), and Walter Stennes (1895).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Heinrich Göbel ranks 20. Before him are Alfred Krupp (1812), Theobald Boehm (1794), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Uziel Gal (1923), and Peter Henlein (1479). After him are Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), Siegfried Marcus (1831), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Henrich Focke (1890), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), and Johann Christoph Denner (1655).

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