INVENTOR

Orville Gibson

1856 - 1918

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Orville H. Gibson (May 1856 – August 19, 1918) was an American luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1902, makers of guitars, mandolins and other instruments. His earliest known instrument was a 10-string mandolin-guitar, which bears the date 1894. Gibson's mandolins were "unlike any previous flatback instrument," according to music historian Paul Sparks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Orville Gibson has received more than 285,259 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Orville Gibson is the 330th most popular inventor, the 6,757th most popular biography from United States and the 84th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Orville Gibson ranks 330 out of 426. Before him are Harry Ferguson, John Wilkinson, Edward Lawry Norton, Ivan Polzunov, Bernard Lown, and Rostislav Alexeyev. After him are Hannibal Goodwin, Beulah Louise Henry, Phil Ramone, Henri Fabre, Giovanni Caselli, and David Dunbar Buick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Orville Gibson ranks 105. Before him are Willem Kes, Wilhelm Geiger, Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, Alfred Deakin, Nigâr Hanım, and Leon Benois. After him are Louis-Gustave Binger, Jens Christian Christensen, Helene von Druskowitz, Paul Henri Lecomte, Vernon Lee, and Belisario Porras Barahona. Among people deceased in 1918, Orville Gibson ranks 148. Before him are John McCrae, Marcel Deprez, Ali Aaltonen, Henry Macintosh, Thérèse Schwartze, and Nigâr Hanım. After him are Olavo Bilac, Virgilio Fossati, Johan Henrik Deuntzer, Henri Tauzin, Abbas Sahhat, and Johannes Thiele.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Orville Gibson ranks 6,757 out of 20,380. Before him are Harold Rainsford Stark (1880), Edie McClurg (1951), Memphis Slim (1915), Patty Murray (1950), William Beaumont (1785), and Ashley Tisdale (1985). After him are Rick Baker (1950), Patrick Kilpatrick (1949), Edgar Adams (1868), Walter Catlett (1889), James C. Scott (1936), and Joe Rogan (1967).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Orville Gibson ranks 84. Before him are Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Joseph Engelberger (1925), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Patricia Bath (1942), Jay Miner (1932), and Edward Lawry Norton (1898). After him are Hannibal Goodwin (1822), Beulah Louise Henry (1888), George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859), Joy Mangano (1956), John Fitch (1743), and Oliver Evans (1755).

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