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Henri Giffard

1825 - 1882

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Baptiste Jules Henri Jacques Giffard (8 February 1825 – 14 April 1882) was a French engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Giffard has received more than 138,474 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Henri Giffard is the 123rd most popular inventor (up from 130th in 2019), the 1,511th most popular biography from France (up from 1,564th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Inventor.

Henri Giffard was a French engineer who designed the first powered airship.

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  • 59.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henri Giffard ranks 123 out of 426. Before him are André Michelin, Hiram Maxim, Theobald Boehm, Percy Spencer, Josef Ressel, and Johann Jacob Schweppe. After him are Taiichi Ohno, Nikolai Kardashev, Hugo Schmeisser, Samuel Crompton, Mary Anderson, and Robert Adler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Henri Giffard ranks 15. Before him are Paul Kruger, Emil Erlenmeyer, Marie of Prussia, Dadabhai Naoroji, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, and Eduard Hanslick. After him are Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Henry Walter Bates, Nubar Pasha, Sher Ali Khan, Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, and Mór Jókai. Among people deceased in 1882, Henri Giffard ranks 21. Before him are Mary Todd Lincoln, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Vasily Perov, Ewelina Hańska, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, and Sergey Nechayev. After him are Mikhail Skobelev, Henry Draper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, and Karl-Maria Kertbeny.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Giffard ranks 1,511 out of 6,770. Before him are William I, Duke of Aquitaine (875), Rose Bertin (1747), Peter Faber (1506), Paul Gachet (1828), Fredegund (545), and Humbert of Silva Candida (1000). After him are Gustave Charpentier (1860), Henri Cartan (1904), Guillaume Budé (1467), Blaise de Vigenère (1523), Odo of Cluny (878), and Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1560).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Henri Giffard ranks 20. Before him are André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Louis Le Prince (1841), Clément Ader (1841), Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), and André Michelin (1853). After him are Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Édouard Branly (1844), Guillaume Amontons (1663), Charles Cros (1842), and Joseph Monier (1823).

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