INVENTOR

Kenjiro Takayanagi

1899 - 1990

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Kenjiro Takayanagi (高柳 健次郎, Takayanagi Kenjirō, January 20, 1899 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka – July 23, 1990 in Yokosuka) was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenjiro Takayanagi has received more than 131,995 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kenjiro Takayanagi is the 289th most popular inventor, the 1,081st most popular biography from Japan and the 5th most popular Japanese Inventor.

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  • 130k

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  • 57.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Kenjiro Takayanagi ranks 289 out of 426. Before him are George Devol, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Walter Zapp, Jacob Perkins, Nils Bohlin, and Lester Allan Pelton. After him are Ivan Kulibin, Alexander P. de Seversky, Alexandre Alexeieff, Jacob Ellehammer, Henry M. Leland, and Štefan Banič.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Kenjiro Takayanagi ranks 183. Before him are Paul Schmidt, Dora Gerson, Adolf Brudes, Gale Sondergaard, Armas Toivonen, and Nevil Shute. After him are Ralf Törngren, E. B. White, Masujiro Nishida, René Petit, Jean de Brunhoff, and Eugeniusz Bodo. Among people deceased in 1990, Kenjiro Takayanagi ranks 166. Before him are Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Boris Paichadze, Germán Suárez Flamerich, Luis Trenker, Alexander Men, and Ahti Karjalainen. After him are Manly P. Hall, Horst Bienek, Laura Perls, Aleksandra Chudina, Herbert Wehner, and Cemal Süreya.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenjiro Takayanagi ranks 1,081 out of 6,245. Before him are Shinichi Hoshi (1926), Haruhiko Kuroda (1944), Tadahiko Ueda (1947), Kanō Tan'yū (1602), Goro Yamada (1894), and Miyuki Nakajima (1952). After him are Toyohara Chikanobu (1838), Hidemaro Watanabe (1924), Shigemi Ishii (1951), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Uemura Shōen (1875), and Shirase Nobu (1861).

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Among INVENTORS In Japan

Among inventors born in Japan, Kenjiro Takayanagi ranks 5. Before him are Kōnosuke Matsushita (1894), Sakichi Toyoda (1867), Shigeo Shingo (1909), and Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928).

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