INVENTOR

Jacques de Vaucanson

1709 - 1782

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Jacques de Vaucanson (French: [jak də vocɑ̃sɔ̃]; February 24, 1709 – November 21, 1782) was a French inventor and artist who built the first all-metal lathe. This invention was crucial for the Industrial Revolution. The lathe is known as the mother of machine tools, as it was the first machine tool that led to the invention of other machine tools. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques de Vaucanson has received more than 283,989 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jacques de Vaucanson is the 77th most popular inventor (down from 70th in 2019), the 934th most popular biography from France (down from 791st in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Inventor.

Jacques de Vaucanson was most famous for inventing the first automated loom.

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  • 280k

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  • 63.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jacques de Vaucanson ranks 77 out of 426. Before him are Josephine Cochrane, Les Paul, George Eastman, Claude Chappe, Charles K. Kao, and Kōnosuke Matsushita. After him are Alois Senefelder, Ray Tomlinson, Bi Sheng, Thomas Savery, Sakichi Toyoda, and Henry Bessemer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Jacques de Vaucanson ranks 4. Before him are Elizabeth of Russia, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, and Samuel Johnson. After him are Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Franz Benda, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, and Tokugawa Ietsugu. Among people deceased in 1782, Jacques de Vaucanson ranks 8. Before him are Farinelli, Johann Christian Bach, Anne Bonny, Taksin, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, and Pietro Metastasio. After him are Sophie of France, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Anna Göldi, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, and Anna Dorothea Therbusch.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques de Vaucanson ranks 934 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737), Georges Bernanos (1888), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Manu Chao (1961), Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr (1764), and Joseph Babinski (1857). After him are Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (1480), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno (1764), Christian Clavier (1952), Pierre Méchain (1744), and Maria Malibran (1808).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Jacques de Vaucanson ranks 12. Before him are Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas Appert (1749), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Renault (1877), Louis Blériot (1872), and Claude Chappe (1763). After him are Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Louis Le Prince (1841), Clément Ader (1841), and Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844).

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