INVENTOR

Lewis Howard Latimer

1848 - 1928

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Lewis Howard Latimer (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) was an African American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars. In 1884, he joined the Edison Electric Light Company where he worked as a draftsman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lewis Howard Latimer has received more than 1,669,825 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Lewis Howard Latimer is the 368th most popular inventor (down from 361st in 2019), the 8,321st most popular biography from United States (up from 9,206th in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Lewis Howard Latimers by language

Over the past year Lewis Howard Latimer has had the most page views in the with 170,908 views, followed by French (17,980), and Italian (5,341). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Welsh (97.84%), Simple English (73.17%), and Yoruba (63.38%)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Lewis Howard Latimer ranks 368 out of 426. Before him are Elizabeth Holmes, Isaac Pitman, Johan Vaaler, Andy Bechtolsheim, Amar Bose, and William Friese-Greene. After him are Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Henry J. Kaiser, Per Georg Scheutz, Frank Piasecki, Andrew Viterbi, and Arunachalam Muruganantham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Lewis Howard Latimer ranks 109. Before him are Joel Chandler Harris, Bernard Bosanquet, Grant Allen, Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde, Waldemar Rosenberger, and Jørgen Løvland. After him are Otto Bütschli, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Matthew Webb, Amos Burn, Albert Parsons, and W. G. Grace. Among people deceased in 1928, Lewis Howard Latimer ranks 108. Before him are Sverre Hassel, Marie Stritt, Jane Ellen Harrison, Roman Steinberg, Karl Röderer, and Nina Bang. After him are Pierre Puiseux, Bill Haywood, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Xiang Jingyu, Jan Sztolcman, and Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lewis Howard Latimer ranks 8,321 out of 20,380. Before him are J. B. Lenoir (1929), Joseph Strickland (1958), Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884), Leelee Sobieski (1983), Leon Schlesinger (1884), and Mia Zapata (1965). After him are J. Searle Dawley (1877), Brian Littrell (1975), Bessie Barriscale (1884), Pepper Adams (1930), Corey Allen (1934), and Alexander Patch (1889).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Lewis Howard Latimer ranks 99. Before him are Jerry Lawson (1940), Frank J. Sprague (1857), Almon Brown Strowger (1839), George Stibitz (1904), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), and Amar Bose (1929). After him are Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Frank Piasecki (1919), Margaret E. Knight (1838), Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), and Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860).

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