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Lester Allan Pelton

1829 - 1908

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Lester Allan Pelton (September 5, 1829 – March 14, 1908) was an American inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the American Old West as well as world-wide. In the late 1870s, he invented the Pelton water wheel, at that time the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lester Allan Pelton has received more than 100,660 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Lester Allan Pelton is the 288th most popular inventor (down from 271st in 2019), the 5,221st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,613th in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Lester Allan Pelton ranks 288 out of 426. Before him are Prokop Diviš, George Devol, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Walter Zapp, Jacob Perkins, and Nils Bohlin. After him are Kenjiro Takayanagi, Ivan Kulibin, Alexander P. de Seversky, Alexandre Alexeieff, Jacob Ellehammer, and Henry M. Leland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Lester Allan Pelton ranks 53. Before him are Laurence Oliphant, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Jean Dufresne, Alfred Newton, Suzanne Manet, and Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer. After him are Edmond Albius, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, August Malmström, Princess Louise of Prussia, José López Domínguez, and Epameinondas Deligeorgis. Among people deceased in 1908, Lester Allan Pelton ranks 69. Before him are Walery Antoni Wróblewski, Heinrich Hübschmann, Friedrich von Esmarch, Friedrich Paulsen, Paul Taffanel, and Simo Matavulj. After him are Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Ernest Fenollosa, Milovan Glišić, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Nozu Michitsura, and Herman Snellen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lester Allan Pelton ranks 5,221 out of 20,380. Before him are Eli Lilly (1838), Harold E. Varmus (1939), Stephen A. Douglas (1813), Kristen Wiig (1973), Anita Page (1910), and Bill Nieder (1933). After him are Albert Gutterson (1887), Tad Williams (1957), Brian Krause (1969), Evan Peters (1987), Eddie Slovik (1920), and Richard Burgi (1958).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Lester Allan Pelton ranks 71. Before him are Theodore Maiman (1927), Michael S. Hart (1947), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), Ralph Hartley (1888), George Devol (1912), and Jacob Perkins (1766). After him are Henry M. Leland (1843), Marion Donovan (1917), David Bushnell (1742), Dan Bricklin (1951), Ken Olsen (1926), and Jack Northrop (1895).

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