INVENTOR

Joseph Engelberger

1925 - 2015

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Joseph Frederick Engelberger (July 26, 1925 – December 1, 2015) was an American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Engelberger has received more than 190,004 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Engelberger is the 312th most popular inventor (up from 330th in 2019), the 6,134th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,998th in 2019) and the 79th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 190k

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  • 48.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Engelberger ranks 312 out of 426. Before him are Paul von Jankó, David Bushnell, Dan Bricklin, Ken Olsen, Jack Northrop, and Wilson Greatbatch. After him are Roland Moreno, Peter Carl Goldmark, Ernst Alexanderson, Walter Bruch, Heinrich Gerber, and Thomas Wedgwood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Joseph Engelberger ranks 306. Before him are Michal Vičan, Carlo Di Palma, Amparo Rivelles, David A. Huffman, Peter R. Hunt, and José Parra Martínez. After him are Roy Haynes, Luis E. Miramontes, Henri Oreiller, Mahmoud Fayad, Raymond Impanis, and Juan Francisco Lombardo. Among people deceased in 2015, Joseph Engelberger ranks 278. Before him are Yossi Sarid, Ivan Davidov, Stephan Beckenbauer, William Wakefield Baum, Gamal El-Ghitani, and Kayahan. After him are Jayakanthan, Peter de Klerk, Leo Kadanoff, Milorad Milutinović, Elżbieta Krzesińska, and Ibrahim Biogradlić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Engelberger ranks 6,134 out of 20,380. Before him are Marion Lorne (1883), Morris Louis (1912), Mike Bloomfield (1943), Mary Browne (1891), Joe Bryant (1954), and Phil Anselmo (1968). After him are Sonny Boy Williamson II (1912), Alexander Mackendrick (1912), Lou Costello (1906), Shawn Crahan (1969), Kirsten Vangsness (1972), and Roy Haynes (1925).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Joseph Engelberger ranks 79. Before him are Marion Donovan (1917), David Bushnell (1742), Dan Bricklin (1951), Ken Olsen (1926), Jack Northrop (1895), and Wilson Greatbatch (1919). After him are Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Patricia Bath (1942), Jay Miner (1932), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Orville Gibson (1856), and Hannibal Goodwin (1822).

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