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L. L. Langstroth

1810 - 1895

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Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth (December 25, 1810 – October 6, 1895) was an American apiarist, clergyman, and teacher, who has been called the father of American beekeeping. He recognized the concept of bee-space, a minimum distance that bees avoid sealing up. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of L. L. Langstroth has received more than 129,232 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). L. L. Langstroth is the 235th most popular inventor (up from 274th in 2019), the 3,730th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,859th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 130k

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  • 53.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, L. L. Langstroth ranks 235 out of 426. Before him are Marcian Hoff, Hubert Cecil Booth, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Ottmar Mergenthaler, and Genrich Altshuller. After him are Pavel Yablochkov, Georges Hébert, Hans von Ohain, Tivadar Puskás, Clive Sinclair, and Ottó Bláthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, L. L. Langstroth ranks 50. Before him are Alexandre Calame, Alexandre Herculano, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, Norbert Burgmüller, Julian Fontana, and Peter Andreas Munch. After him are George Robert Waterhouse, Johann Löwenthal, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Abraham Geiger, Louis Gallait, and Maurice de Guérin. Among people deceased in 1895, L. L. Langstroth ranks 48. Before him are Władysław Podkowiński, Karl Vogt, Karl Schenk, Benjamin Godard, Lahiri Mahasaya, and Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia. After him are Eugen Langen, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, Sophie Adlersparre, Hayranidil Kadın, and Henri Ernest Baillon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, L. L. Langstroth ranks 3,730 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), Anna Gunn (1968), Vincent Gigante (1928), Doyle Brunson (1933), Frederick Wiseman (1930), and George Ellery Hale (1868). After him are Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), Thomas E. Dewey (1902), Dan Sullivan (1964), Budd Boetticher (1916), Roy E. Disney (1930), and James Rollins (1961).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, L. L. Langstroth ranks 58. Before him are Robert Metcalfe (1946), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Walter Hunt (1796), George Pullman (1831), Marcian Hoff (1937), and Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924). After him are Ray Dolby (1933), Frank Zamboni (1901), Laurens Hammond (1895), Robert Cornelius (1809), Glenn Curtiss (1878), and Cyrus McCormick (1809).

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