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Jacob W. Davis

1831 - 1908

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Jacob William Davis (born Russian: Якоб Яковлевич Юфес , May 14, 1831 – January 20, 1908) was a Russian-American tailor who is credited with inventing modern jeans. Growing up in Russian Empire, he emigrated to the United States as a young man and spent some time in Canada as well. He invented jeans by using sturdy cloth and rivets to strengthen weak points in the seams, and partnered with Levi Strauss to mass-produce them. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob W. Davis has received more than 506,982 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jacob W. Davis is the 260th most popular inventor (down from 248th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Latvia (down from 72nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Latvian Inventor.

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  • 58.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jacob W. Davis ranks 260 out of 426. Before him are Ricardo Wolf, Abraham Darby I, James Nasmyth, Robert Cornelius, Petrache Poenaru, and Arthur Wynne. After him are Wan Hu, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Frederick Scott Archer, Harry Brearley, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, and Louis Lumière.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Jacob W. Davis ranks 67. Before him are Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay, Theodor Aman, Hedwig Dohm, Wojciech Gerson, Filippo Marchetti, and Heinrich Anton de Bary. After him are Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Ebenezer Cobb Morley, José Evaristo Uriburu, Fatima Sheikh, Reinhold Begas, and Gustav Radde. Among people deceased in 1908, Jacob W. Davis ranks 62. Before him are Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Valtazar Bogišić, Edward MacDowell, William Edward Ayrton, and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Walery Antoni Wróblewski, Heinrich Hübschmann, Friedrich von Esmarch, Friedrich Paulsen, Paul Taffanel, and Simo Matavulj.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Jacob W. Davis ranks 91 out of 323. Before him are Gustavs Zemgals (1871), Jānis Balodis (1881), Lina Stern (1878), Alexander Kovalevsky (1840), Janis Rozentāls (1866), and Heinz Christian Pander (1794). After him are Anatolijs Gorbunovs (1942), Otto August Rosenberger (1800), Karl Davydov (1838), Ernst von Bergmann (1836), Krišjānis Barons (1835), and Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824).

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Among INVENTORS In Latvia

Among inventors born in Latvia, Jacob W. Davis ranks 2. Before him are Friedrich Zander (1887). After him are Walter Zapp (1905).

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