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Peter Cooper

1791 - 1883

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Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791 – April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician. He designed and built the first American steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb, founded the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, served as its first president, and stood for election as the Greenback Party's candidate in the 1876 presidential election. Cooper began tinkering at a young age while working in various positions in New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Cooper has received more than 593,369 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Peter Cooper is the 401st most popular inventor (down from 367th in 2019), the 10,593rd most popular biography from United States (down from 10,140th in 2019) and the 116th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Peter Cooper ranks 401 out of 426. Before him are Granville Woods, Bette Nesmith Graham, Yvonne Brill, Walter Frederick Morrison, John Whitehurst, and Arnold Orville Beckman. After him are Arthur Fry, Charles F. Kettering, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Kamil Tolon, Richard Pearse, and Roger C. Field.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Peter Cooper ranks 46. Before him are József Katona, José Ignacio Pavón, Henryk Rzewuski, Juan Francisco Giró, Kazimierz Brodziński, and John Nelson. After him are George Peacock, and Allan Cunningham. Among people deceased in 1883, Peter Cooper ranks 69. Before him are Victor Puiseux, Philipp Christoph Zeller, General Tom Thumb, Jeremiah S. Black, Matthew Webb, and John Lawrence LeConte. After him are Henry John Stephen Smith, William Spottiswoode, and Lot M. Morrill.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Cooper ranks 10,593 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Winter (1939), Fred Clark (1914), Paul Sereno (1957), Arthur Wesley Dow (1857), Alphonzo Bell (1875), and Bridgette Wilson (1973). After him are Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein (1964), Joseph Stadler (1880), Barrie M. Osborne (1944), George Saunders (1958), Bob Skelton (1903), and Donald Piper (1911).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Peter Cooper ranks 116. Before him are George Beauchamp (1899), Dean Kamen (1951), Granville Woods (1856), Bette Nesmith Graham (1924), Walter Frederick Morrison (1920), and Arnold Orville Beckman (1900). After him are Arthur Fry (1931), Charles F. Kettering (1958), Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922), Clarence Birdseye (1886), Charles Ammi Cutter (1837), and John F. Seitz (1892).

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