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John Ericsson

1803 - 1889

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John Ericsson (born Johan Ericsson; July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American engineer and inventor. He was active in England and the United States. Ericsson collaborated on the design of the railroad steam locomotive Novelty, which competed in the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which were won by inventor George Stephenson's (1781–1848), Rocket. Later in North America, he designed the United States Navy's first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton, in partnership with Captain (later Commodore) Robert F. Stockton (1795–1866) of the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Ericsson has received more than 400,505 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. John Ericsson is the 139th most popular inventor, the 241st most popular biography from Sweden (down from 226th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Inventor.

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  • 400k

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  • 58.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, John Ericsson ranks 139 out of 426. Before him are W. O. Bentley, Robert Moog, Zénobe Gramme, Paul Baran, Paul Otlet, and Robert Cailliau. After him are Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Georg Luger, John Kay, Sequoyah, Charles Algernon Parsons, and Robert Stirling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, John Ericsson ranks 21. Before him are Ferenc Deák, Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, Maria Teresa of Savoy, James Brooke, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, and Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville. After him are Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Muhammad IV of Morocco, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Joseph Paxton, Henry Darcy, and Alexander Georg von Bunge. Among people deceased in 1889, John Ericsson ranks 24. Before him are Giovanni Bottesini, Maria Mitchell, Robert Browning, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, and Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. After him are Ignacy Domeyko, Jules Dupré, Gaston Planté, Şevkefza Kadın, Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, and Elvira Madigan.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, John Ericsson ranks 241 out of 1,879. Before him are Catherine Stenbock (1535), Olaus Petri (1493), Sven Nykvist (1922), Hjalmar Söderberg (1869), Mats Wilander (1964), and Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797). After him are Camilla Läckberg (1974), Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (1592), Lennart Bernadotte (1909), Árni Magnússon (1663), Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland (1889), and Johan Vilhelm Snellman (1806).

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Among INVENTORS In Sweden

Among inventors born in Sweden, John Ericsson ranks 1. After him are Gideon Sundback (1880), Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876), Nils Bohlin (1920), Ernst Alexanderson (1878), Victor Hasselblad (1906), and Simone Giertz (1990).

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