INVENTOR

Jacob Ellehammer

1871 - 1946

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Jacob Christian Hansen-Ellehammer (born 14 June 1871 in Bakkebølle, died 20 May 1946 in Gentofte) was a Danish inventor and aviation pioneer. He obtained a total of 59 Danish patents and worked with many different things, including amusement machines, Tivoli boats, egg openers, cleavers for pig slaughterhouses, engines in countless shades, motorcycles, cars, alternative energy and fire-fighting equipment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Ellehammer has received more than 58,684 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Ellehammer is the 293rd most popular inventor (up from 302nd in 2019), the 412th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 411th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jacob Ellehammer ranks 293 out of 426. Before him are Nils Bohlin, Lester Allan Pelton, Kenjiro Takayanagi, Ivan Kulibin, Alexander P. de Seversky, and Alexandre Alexeieff. After him are Henry M. Leland, Štefan Banič, Rowland Hill, George Graham, Henry Shrapnel, and Franz Xaver Gabelsberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Jacob Ellehammer ranks 109. Before him are Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Nils Edén, Nicholas Adontz, Fyodor Dan, Dénes Berinkey, and José Enrique Rodó. After him are Olga Preobrajenska, Fritz Schaudinn, Vasyl Stefanyk, Henryk Arctowski, Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, and Walter Breisky. Among people deceased in 1946, Jacob Ellehammer ranks 159. Before him are Amir Hamzah, Júlio Prestes, Shirase Nobu, Teizo Takeuchi, Rudolf Walden, and Renée Jeanne Falconetti. After him are Moisei Ginzburg, Saint Alphonsa, Barbu Știrbey, Giuseppe Adami, Mae Busch, and Antti Hackzell.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jacob Ellehammer ranks 412 out of 1,032. Before him are Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685), Theodor Philipsen (1840), L. A. Ring (1854), Richard Martin West (1941), Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1864), and Robert Jacobsen (1912). After him are Klaus Rifbjerg (1931), Viggo Johansen (1851), Thomas Bo Larsen (1963), Jan Heintze (1963), Nicolas Winding Refn (1970), and Gustav Winckler (1925).

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Among INVENTORS In Denmark

Among inventors born in Denmark, Jacob Ellehammer ranks 1. 

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