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Lawrence Hargrave

1850 - 1915

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Lawrence Hargrave, MRAeS, (29 January 1850 – 6 July 1915) was an Australian engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Hargrave has received more than 159,026 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Lawrence Hargrave is the 374th most popular inventor (down from 338th in 2019), the 5,288th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,663rd in 2019) and the 61st most popular British Inventor.

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  • 160k

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  • 39.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Lawrence Hargrave ranks 374 out of 354. Before him are Mohamed M. Atalla, Arnold Orville Beckman, Richard Pearse, Arthur Fry, Walter Frederick Morrison, and John F. Seitz. After him are Charles F. Kettering, Marc Andreessen, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Jarkko Oikarinen, David Hahn, and Boyan Slat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Lawrence Hargrave ranks 103. Before him are Daniel Chester French, Robert Ridgway, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Henry Cabot Lodge, Constantin Henriquez, and Samuel Gompers.  Among people deceased in 1915, Lawrence Hargrave ranks 113. Before him are Charles Tupper, Charles Walter De Vis, William Wallace Denslow, Nelson W. Aldrich, John Bunny, and W. G. Grace. After him are Mari Beyleryan and Susan La Flesche Picotte.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lawrence Hargrave ranks 5,288 out of 7,765. Before him are Peter Westbury (1938), Arthur Scargill (1938), Jim Leighton (1958), Richard Crashaw (1612), Thomas Dolby (1958), and Jemima Kirke (1985). After him are Zuleikha Robinson (1977), Rupert Keegan (1955), Trevor Brooking (1948), John Curry (1949), Brian Cox (1968), and Gillian Gilbert (1961).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Lawrence Hargrave ranks 61. Before him are Henry Shrapnel (1761), Barnes Wallis (1887), George Graham (1673), Arthur Wynne (1871), John Whitehurst (1713), and Roger C. Field (1945).

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