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Ivan Kulibin

1735 - 1818

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Ivan Petrovich Kulibin (April 21, 1735 – August 11, 1818) was a Russian mechanic and inventor. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of a trader. From childhood, Kulibin displayed an interest in constructing mechanical tools. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Kulibin has received more than 69,248 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Kulibin is the 290th most popular inventor (down from 281st in 2019), the 1,486th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,369th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ivan Kulibin ranks 290 out of 426. Before him are Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Walter Zapp, Jacob Perkins, Nils Bohlin, Lester Allan Pelton, and Kenjiro Takayanagi. After him are Alexander P. de Seversky, Alexandre Alexeieff, Jacob Ellehammer, Henry M. Leland, Štefan Banič, and Rowland Hill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Ivan Kulibin ranks 23. Before him are Ignacy Krasicki, Dmitry Levitzky, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, József Alvinczi, Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, and Joseph Ducreux. After him are Paul Kray, Ulrika Pasch, Tobias Furneaux, Domenico Vandelli, Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Claudine Picardet. Among people deceased in 1818, Ivan Kulibin ranks 35. Before him are Matvei Platov, Inō Tadataka, Olof Swartz, Nicolas Isouard, Nikolay Novikov, and Josef Abel. After him are Martha Christina Tiahahu, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Johann David Wyss, Henry Lee III, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, and Carl Frederik von Breda.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Kulibin ranks 1,486 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrey Lukanov (1938), Joseph Bové (1784), Lidiya Skoblikova (1939), Vladimir Gilyarovsky (1853), Apollon Maykov (1821), and Alexander Rou (1906). After him are Izmail Sreznevsky (1812), Valentin Ivanov (1961), Alla Kushnir (1941), Alexander Gelfond (1906), Sergei Mavrodi (1955), and Vera Karalli (1889).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Ivan Kulibin ranks 9. Before him are Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Léon Theremin (1896), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), and Pavel Yablochkov (1847). After him are Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Ivan Polzunov (1728), Rostislav Alexeyev (1916), and Oleg Losev (1903).

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