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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 181,326 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Engelberger is the 330th most popular inventor, the 7,012th most popular biography from United States and the 86th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 16

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Engelberger ranks 330 out of 354. Before him are Norman Joseph Woodland, Roland Moreno, Per Georg Scheutz, Barnes Wallis, Margaret E. Knight, and Ken Olsen. After him are John Philip Holland, Frank Piasecki, Amar Bose, George Graham, George Stibitz, and Hary Gunarto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Joseph Engelberger ranks 348. Before him are John Baptist Wu, Bruce Kirby, Mary F. Lyon, Vladimir Shainsky, Shrilal Shukla, and Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas. After him are Georg Buschner, Benito Lorenzi, Angelo Conterno, Anne-Marie Colchen, Lyuben Berov, and Abdelsalam Majali. Among people deceased in 2015, Joseph Engelberger ranks 303. Before him are Nurlan Balgimbayev, Boris Shilkov, Evelyn Furtsch, Marília Pêra, Eric Thompson, and Jean Vautrin. After him are Candida Royalle, Nina Companeez, Mary Ellen Trainor, Scott Weiland, Gamal El-Ghitani, and Boris Morukov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Engelberger ranks 7,012 out of 18,182. Before him are Jason Kidd (1973), Walter Block (1941), Robert T. Bakker (1945), Ken Olsen (1926), Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923), and William T. Anderson (1839). After him are Maury Chaykin (1949), Skeeter Davis (1931), Skeet Ulrich (1970), Charles Reidpath (1889), Solomon W. Golomb (1932), and Alice Faye (1915).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Joseph Engelberger ranks 86. Before him are Jay Miner (1932), Robert S. Langer (1948), Marion Donovan (1917), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), Margaret E. Knight (1838), and Ken Olsen (1926). After him are Frank Piasecki (1919), Amar Bose (1929), George Stibitz (1904), Dan Bricklin (1951), Patricia Bath (1942), and Gary Fisher (1950).

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