INVENTOR

Louis Blériot

1872 - 1936

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Louis Charles Joseph Blériot ( BLERR-ee-oh, also US: BLAY-ree-oh, -⁠OH, blair-YOH, French: [lwi ʃaʁl ʒozɛf bleʁjo]; 1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. Blériot was the first to use the combination of hand-operated joystick and foot-operated rudder control as used to the present day to operate the aircraft control surfaces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Blériot has received more than 538,461 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Blériot is the 60th most popular inventor (down from 58th in 2019), the 645th most popular biography from France (up from 659th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Inventor.

Louis Blériot was most famous for being the first person to fly across the English Channel in 1909.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Louis Blériot ranks 60 out of 426. Before him are Emile Berliner, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Louis Renault, John Boyd Dunlop, Charles Goodyear, and Henry Fox Talbot. After him are Adam Opel, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Isaac Singer, Cornelis Drebbel, John Browning, and Étienne Lenoir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Louis Blériot ranks 17. Before him are Marcel Mauss, Anton Denikin, Emil Hácha, Richard Willstätter, Léon Blum, and Sergei Diaghilev. After him are Djemal Pasha, Helena Rubinstein, Maurice Gamelin, Sri Aurobindo, Jože Plečnik, and Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. Among people deceased in 1936, Louis Blériot ranks 23. Before him are Miguel de Unamuno, Albert Fish, Elsa Einstein, G. K. Chesterton, Premchand, and José Antonio Primo de Rivera. After him are Buenaventura Durruti, Ottorino Respighi, Hans von Seeckt, Karl Kraus, Charles Nicolle, and Andrija Mohorovičić.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Blériot ranks 645 out of 6,770. Before him are Hugues de Payens (1074), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Emma of Normandy (985), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Ariovistus (-101), and François Guizot (1787). After him are Maurice Chevalier (1888), Hugh the Great (898), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Ansgar (801), Georges Perec (1936), and Ausonius (310).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Louis Blériot ranks 10. Before him are Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas Appert (1749), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), and Louis Renault (1877). After him are Claude Chappe (1763), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), and Louis Le Prince (1841).

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