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Hubert Cecil Booth

1871 - 1955

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Hubert Cecil Booth (4 July 1871 – 14 January 1955) was an English engineer, best known for having invented one of the first powered vacuum cleaners. He also designed Ferris wheels, suspension bridges and factories. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hubert Cecil Booth has received more than 512,193 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Hubert Cecil Booth is the 230th most popular inventor (down from 175th in 2019), the 2,099th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,532nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 53.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Hubert Cecil Booth ranks 230 out of 426. Before him are Lou Ottens, Robert Watson-Watt, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Alexander Parkes, Aurel Stodola, and Marcian Hoff. After him are Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Genrich Altshuller, L. L. Langstroth, and Pavel Yablochkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Hubert Cecil Booth ranks 76. Before him are Wilhelm von Mirbach, Arthur Tansley, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Ivan Poddubny, Claus Schilling, and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty. After him are Emily Carr, Kōtoku Shūsui, Oscar Wisting, Martin Knudsen, Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro, and Alexander Spendiaryan. Among people deceased in 1955, Hubert Cecil Booth ranks 81. Before him are Jim Corbett, Jirō Minami, Horace McCoy, Carl Milles, Ona Munson, and Louis Charles Breguet. After him are Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Ango Sakaguchi, Lin Huiyin, Arthur Bernardes, Tribhuvan of Nepal, and Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hubert Cecil Booth ranks 2,099 out of 8,785. Before him are Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (1499), Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (1912), John Baskerville (1706), Joseph Delaney (1945), William Smith (1790), and James Edward Smith (1759). After him are Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), Glenn Hoddle (1957), Frank Dicksee (1853), Irvine Welsh (1957), Jane Digby (1807), and James Connolly (1868).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Hubert Cecil Booth ranks 35. Before him are Jethro Tull (1674), David Edward Hughes (1831), Henry Maudslay (1771), Oliver Lodge (1851), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), and Alexander Parkes (1813). After him are Clive Sinclair (1940), John Kemp Starley (1854), Joseph Whitworth (1803), Abraham Darby I (1678), James Nasmyth (1808), and Arthur Wynne (1871).

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