INVENTOR

Joseph Marie Jacquard

1752 - 1834

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Joseph Marie Charles dit (called or nicknamed) Jacquard (French: [ʒakaʁ]; 7 July 1752 – 7 August 1834) was a French weaver and merchant. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Marie Jacquard has received more than 434,602 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Joseph Marie Jacquard is the 30th most popular inventor (up from 34th in 2019), the 362nd most popular biography from France (down from 347th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Inventor.

Joseph Marie Jacquard was a French inventor who is most famous for inventing the Jacquard loom.

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Marie Jacquard ranks 30 out of 426. Before him are Ernő Rubik, Ismail al-Jazari, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Antonio Meucci, Denis Papin, and Steve Wozniak. After him are Thomas Newcomen, Nicolas Appert, Eli Whitney, George Westinghouse, Igor Sikorsky, and Robert Fulton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Joseph Marie Jacquard ranks 3. Before him are Maria Carolina of Austria, and Jeongjo of Joseon. After him are Muzio Clementi, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Karl Mack von Leiberich, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Jacques Roux, Thomas Chatterton, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, and Nguyễn Huệ. Among people deceased in 1834, Joseph Marie Jacquard ranks 5. Before him are Thomas Robert Malthus, Pedro I of Brazil, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, and Friedrich Schleiermacher. After him are Sunjo of Joseon, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alois Senefelder, William Carey, François-Adrien Boieldieu, and Husein Gradaščević.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Marie Jacquard ranks 362 out of 6,770. Before him are Robert Guiscard (1016), Denis Papin (1647), Édouard Daladier (1884), Adolphe Thiers (1797), Jean Renoir (1894), and Roger Martin du Gard (1881). After him are Jean Buridan (1295), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Henri Charrière (1906), Pope Nicholas II (990), Philip the Bold (1342), and Jean Baudrillard (1929).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Joseph Marie Jacquard ranks 6. Before him are Louis Braille (1809), Louis Daguerre (1787), Rudolf Diesel (1858), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), and Denis Papin (1647). After him are Nicolas Appert (1749), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Renault (1877), Louis Blériot (1872), Claude Chappe (1763), and Jacques de Vaucanson (1709).

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