INVENTOR

Nikolaus Otto

1832 - 1891

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Nicolaus August Otto (10 June 1832 – 26 January 1891) was a German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion engine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolaus Otto has received more than 333,505 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Nikolaus Otto is the 15th most popular inventor, the 114th most popular biography from Germany (down from 106th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Inventor.

Nikolaus Otto is most famous for his invention of the four-stroke internal combustion engine.

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  • 74.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Nikolaus Otto ranks 15 out of 426. Before him are Henry Ford, Guglielmo Marconi, Charles Babbage, Louis Braille, Samuel Morse, and Cai Lun. After him are Louis Daguerre, George Stephenson, Rudolf Diesel, Nicéphore Niépce, Abbas ibn Firnas, and Werner von Siemens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Nikolaus Otto ranks 6. Before him are Édouard Manet, Gustave Eiffel, Wilhelm Wundt, Lewis Carroll, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. After him are Maximilian I of Mexico, Gustave Doré, Edward Burnett Tylor, Ivan Shishkin, José Echegaray, and William Crookes. Among people deceased in 1891, Nikolaus Otto ranks 2. Before him is Arthur Rimbaud. After him are Georges Seurat, Helena Blavatsky, Herman Melville, Pedro II of Brazil, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Sofia Kovalevskaya, P. T. Barnum, Léo Delibes, and Wilhelm Eduard Weber.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nikolaus Otto ranks 114 out of 7,253. Before him are Henry the Fowler (876), Alfred Wegener (1880), Albert Speer (1905), Clara Zetkin (1857), Bruce Willis (1955), and Theodor W. Adorno (1903). After him are Walter Benjamin (1892), Charles the Fat (839), Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845), Leni Riefenstahl (1902), and Novalis (1772).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Nikolaus Otto ranks 3. Before him are Johannes Gutenberg (1394), and Karl Benz (1844). After him are Werner von Siemens (1816), Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850), Konrad Zuse (1910), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Hans Lippershey (1570), Karl Drais (1785), Emile Berliner (1851), Adam Opel (1837), and Joseph Pilates (1883).

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