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John Wesley Hyatt

1837 - 1920

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John Wesley Hyatt (November 28, 1837 – May 10, 1920) was an American inventor. He is mainly known for simplifying the production of celluloid. Hyatt, a Perkin Medal recipient, is included in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Wesley Hyatt has received more than 132,802 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). John Wesley Hyatt is the 215th most popular inventor (down from 206th in 2019), the 3,200th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,998th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Inventor.

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  • 54.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, John Wesley Hyatt ranks 215 out of 426. Before him are Lars Magnus Ericsson, Yuan Longping, J. Presper Eckert, Gerald Bull, Robert Metcalfe, and Helmut Gröttrup. After him are Artur Fischer, George Washington, Josip Belušić, Max Skladanowsky, Walter Hunt, and Slavoljub Eduard Penkala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, John Wesley Hyatt ranks 53. Before him are Itagaki Taisuke, Carolus-Duran, Prince Albert of Prussia, George Dewey, Liu Yongfu, and Tippu Tip. After him are Hans von Marées, Zhang Zhidong, Robert Gould Shaw, Moritz Kaposi, Sanjō Sanetomi, and Walter Hauser. Among people deceased in 1920, John Wesley Hyatt ranks 51. Before him are Paul Adam, Luís of Orléans-Braganza, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Levi P. Morton, Maria Bochkareva, and Nikolai Korotkov. After him are Afonso, Duke of Porto, Grigory Potanin, Ryu Gwansun, Matthías Jochumsson, Kliment Timiryazev, and Maciej Sulkiewicz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Wesley Hyatt ranks 3,200 out of 20,380. Before him are Jelly Roll Morton (1890), Reggie Jackson (1946), Divine (1945), Anne Ramsey (1929), Bill Nunn (1953), and Margaret Fuller (1810). After him are John Edward Williams (1922), Zach Galifianakis (1969), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), David Petraeus (1952), Andrew Fire (1959), and Laurie Metcalf (1955).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, John Wesley Hyatt ranks 53. Before him are Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Raymond Damadian (1936), Melvil Dewey (1851), J. Presper Eckert (1919), and Robert Metcalfe (1946). After him are Walter Hunt (1796), George Pullman (1831), Marcian Hoff (1937), Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), L. L. Langstroth (1810), and Ray Dolby (1933).

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