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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 125,346 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Wesley Hyatt is the 206th most popular inventor (down from 191st in 2019), the 3,005th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,773rd in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 21

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  • 6.84

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, John Wesley Hyatt ranks 206 out of 354. Before him are Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Lou Ottens, Wan Hu, Georges Hébert, Oliver Lodge, and Hans von Ohain. After him are Eli Whitney, Helmut Gröttrup, Max Skladanowsky, Robert Cornelius, Henry Maudslay, and George de Mestral.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, John Wesley Hyatt ranks 49. Before him are Alexandre Guilmant, Henry Draper, Georg Ebers, Tippu Tip, Ernest Guiraud, and Itagaki Taisuke. After him are Franz Overbeck, Mubarak Al-Sabah, Moritz Kaposi, Yohannes IV, Sanjō Sanetomi, and George Dewey. Among people deceased in 1920, John Wesley Hyatt ranks 45. Before him are Herbert James Draper, S. Ansky, Maria Bochkareva, Sarada Devi, Gyula Benczúr, and Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg. After him are William Chester Minor, Joseph Trumpeldor, Levi P. Morton, Nikolai Korotkov, Afonso, Duke of Porto, and Odoardo Beccari.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Wesley Hyatt ranks 3,005 out of 18,182. Before him are Al Martino (1927), Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977), Eddie Vedder (1964), Robert Davi (1953), Nancy Allen (1950), and Peter MacNicol (1954). After him are Chuck Close (1940), Eric Stoltz (1961), Candy Darling (1944), P. J. Kennedy (1858), Edith Roosevelt (1861), and Yvette Mimieux (1942).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, John Wesley Hyatt ranks 47. Before him are Garrett Morgan (1877), George Pullman (1831), Royal Rife (1888), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), and Philo Farnsworth (1906). After him are Eli Whitney (1765), Robert Cornelius (1809), Larry Sanger (1968), Raymond Damadian (1936), Laurens Hammond (1895), and Marcian Hoff (1937).

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