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Lars Magnus Ericsson

1846 - 1926

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Lars Magnus Ericsson (Swedish pronunciation: [lɑːʂ ˈmǎŋːnɵs ˈêːrɪkˌsɔn] ; 5 May 1846 – 17 December 1926) was a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson (incorporated as Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lars Magnus Ericsson has received more than 210,932 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 20 in 2019). Lars Magnus Ericsson is the 209th most popular inventor (down from 189th in 2019), the 346th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 303rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Lars Magnus Ericsson ranks 209 out of 426. Before him are Henry Maudslay, Narcís Monturiol, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Melvil Dewey, Shigeo Shingo, and Oliver Lodge. After him are Yuan Longping, J. Presper Eckert, Gerald Bull, Robert Metcalfe, Helmut Gröttrup, and John Wesley Hyatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Lars Magnus Ericsson ranks 46. Before him are Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, Vyacheslav von Plehve, Count Kasimir Felix Badeni, Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Carlo Cafiero, and Abdallahi ibn Muhammad. After him are F. H. Bradley, Amalie Skram, Karl Verner, Holger Drachmann, Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti, and Albert Apponyi. Among people deceased in 1926, Lars Magnus Ericsson ranks 53. Before him are Annie Oakley, Helen Allingham, Leonid Krasin, Katō Takaaki, Ivana Kobilca, and Victor Babeș. After him are Charles Angrand, Léon Charles Thévenin, Josias von Heeringen, Albert Robida, Carlos Schwabe, and Enrico Toselli.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Lars Magnus Ericsson ranks 346 out of 1,879. Before him are Ronnie Hellström (1949), Louis Gerhard De Geer (1818), Kristina Söderbaum (1912), Olof Thunberg (1925), Lennart Carleson (1928), and Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (1549). After him are Evert Taube (1890), Axel Ljung (1884), Alf Sjöberg (1903), Staffan de Mistura (1947), Jan Troell (1931), and Lars Hörmander (1931).

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Among INVENTORS In Sweden

Among inventors born in Sweden, Lars Magnus Ericsson ranks 3. Before him are John Ericsson (1803), and Gideon Sundback (1880). After him are Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876), Nils Bohlin (1920), Ernst Alexanderson (1878), Victor Hasselblad (1906), and Simone Giertz (1990).

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