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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 96,391 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Lester Allan Pelton is the 271st most popular inventor (down from 267th in 2019), the 4,625th most popular biography from United States and the 66th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Lester Allan Pelton ranks 271 out of 354. Before him are Walter Clopton Wingfield, Robert Metcalfe, David Bushnell, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Peter Madsen, and Joseph Aspdin. After him are Adolf Martens, Alexander P. de Seversky, L. L. Langstroth, Edward Lawry Norton, Štefan Banič, and Franz Xaver Gabelsberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Lester Allan Pelton ranks 43. Before him are Konrad Duden, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Carl Schurz, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Mikayel Nalbandian, and Laurence Oliphant. After him are Edmond Albius, August Malmström, Jean Dufresne, Moritz Cantor, Alfred Newton, and Frederick Sandys. Among people deceased in 1908, Lester Allan Pelton ranks 63. Before him are Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg, Walery Antoni Wróblewski, Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Friedrich von Esmarch, and Friedrich Traun. After him are Heinrich Hübschmann, Ernest Hébert, Abraham Goldfaden, Friedrich Paulsen, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, and Paul Taffanel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lester Allan Pelton ranks 4,625 out of 18,182. Before him are Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Alice Neel (1900), Perry King (1948), Gregory Hines (1946), Robert Keohane (1941), and Gary Peacock (1935). After him are Stephen Tobolowsky (1951), Elizabeth Mitchell (1970), Harriet Lane (1830), Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879), Eric Johnson (1954), and Clarence Zener (1905).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Lester Allan Pelton ranks 66. Before him are Walter Hunt (1796), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Cyrus McCormick (1809), Michael S. Hart (1947), Robert Metcalfe (1946), and David Bushnell (1742). After him are L. L. Langstroth (1810), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Jack Northrop (1895), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Ralph Hartley (1888), and Tabitha Babbitt (1779).

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