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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, and considered to be 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 119,219 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). L. L. Langstroth is the 274th most popular inventor (down from 240th in 2019), the 4,871st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,765th in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, L. L. Langstroth ranks 274 out of 354Before him are Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Peter Madsen, Joseph Aspdin, Lester Allan Pelton, Adolf Martens, and Alexander P. de Seversky. After him are Edward Lawry Norton, Štefan Banič, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, Paul von Jankó, John Wilkinson, and Thomas Wedgwood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, L. L. Langstroth ranks 54Before him are Alexandre Herculano, Juan Bautista Alberdi, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Maurice de Guérin, and Giovanni Lanza. After him are George Robert Waterhouse, Eugène Belgrand, Philip Henry Gosse, Ferdinand Freiligrath, William Froude, and Andrew Scott Waugh. Among people deceased in 1895, L. L. Langstroth ranks 57Before him are Henri Ernest Baillon, Viktor Rydberg, Władysław Podkowiński, Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, Daniel Kirkwood, and Giuseppe Prinzi. After him are Petko Slaveykov, Jorge Isaacs, Gustav Spörer, Karl Schenk, Louise Otto-Peters, and Kostandin Kristoforidhi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, L. L. Langstroth ranks 4,871 out of 18,182Before him are Linda Thompson (1950), Lesley Ann Warren (1946), John Templeton (1912), Henry Darrow (1933), Andrew Davis (1946), and Steven Williams (1949). After him are Robert Webber (1924), Asia Carrera (1973), John Garfield (1913), Big Bill Broonzy (1903), Marky Ramone (1952), and Tyrese Gibson (1978).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, L. L. Langstroth ranks 67Before him are Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Cyrus McCormick (1809), Michael S. Hart (1947), Robert Metcalfe (1946), David Bushnell (1742), and Lester Allan Pelton (1829). After him are Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Jack Northrop (1895), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Ralph Hartley (1888), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), and Almon Brown Strowger (1839).