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Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

1725 - 1804

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Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February 1725 – 2 October 1804) was a French inventor who built the world's first full-size and working self-propelled mechanical land-vehicle, the "Fardier à vapeur" – effectively the world's first automobile. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot has received more than 671,093 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot is the 55th most popular inventor (down from 38th in 2019), the 622nd most popular biography from France (down from 394th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Inventor.

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was a French inventor who is most famous for being the inventor of the first self-propelled vehicle.

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.12

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  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot ranks 55 out of 426. Before him are Herman Hollerith, Karl Drais, William G. Morgan, Douglas Engelbart, James Naismith, and Emile Berliner. After him are Louis Renault, John Boyd Dunlop, Charles Goodyear, Henry Fox Talbot, Louis Blériot, and Adam Opel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot ranks 3. Before him are Giacomo Casanova, and Abdul Hamid I. After him are Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, Robert Clive, Suzuki Harunobu, Ludovico Manin, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Ahilyabai Holkar, Henry Benedict Stuart, and Pyotr Rumyantsev. Among people deceased in 1804, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot ranks 5. Before him are Immanuel Kant, Joseph Priestley, Alexander Hamilton, and Jacques Necker. After him are Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Pierre Méchain, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Princess Carolina of Parma, and Jean-Charles Pichegru.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot ranks 622 out of 6,770. Before him are André the Giant (1946), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Julie Clary (1771), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), Charles II of Navarre (1332), and Marina Vlady (1938). After him are Juliette Binoche (1964), Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne (1611), Guy Debord (1931), Marie of Anjou (1404), Paul Claudel (1868), and Louis Renault (1877).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot ranks 8. Before him are Louis Daguerre (1787), Rudolf Diesel (1858), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), and Nicolas Appert (1749). After him are Louis Renault (1877), Louis Blériot (1872), Claude Chappe (1763), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), and André-Jacques Garnerin (1769).

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