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Ransom E. Olds

1864 - 1950

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Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864 – August 26, 1950) was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, after whom the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named. He claimed to have built his first steam car as early as 1887 and his first gasoline-powered car in 1896. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ransom E. Olds has received more than 623,798 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ransom E. Olds is the 268th most popular engineer (down from 259th in 2019), the 6,434th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,321st in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Ransom E. Olds ranks 268 out of 323Before him are Jack Parsons, Sergey Chaplygin, Mikhail Simonov, Émile Lemoine, Markus Reiner, and Sam Eyde. After him are Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Arthur Rudolph, Peter Schreyer, Othmar Ammann, K. Eric Drexler, and Donald Wills Douglas Sr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Ransom E. Olds ranks 124Before him are Charles Dawson, Aleksey Shakhmatov, Herman Heijermans, John Walter Gregory, José Pardo y Barreda, and Sergei Zubatov. After him are Jozef Murgaš, Stéphane Javelle, F. Holland Day, Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, Friedrich Gustav Piffl, and Alice Tegnér. Among people deceased in 1950, Ransom E. Olds ranks 134Before him are Giovanni Giorgi, Charles Gmelin, Frederick Twort, José Berraondo, Maurice Costello, and Luise Fleck. After him are Joe Fry, Antonina Nezhdanova, Pedro Parages, Bainbridge Colby, Arthur L. Newton, and Alice Kober.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ransom E. Olds ranks 6,434 out of 18,182Before him are Sasha Mitchell (1967), Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822), Harold Osborn (1899), Marc Cherry (1962), Tony Zale (1913), and Walton Goggins (1971). After him are Ted DiBiase (1954), Robert Harron (1893), Johnny Mercer (1909), Joe Ranft (1960), Will Geer (1902), and Nancy Wilson (1937).

Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Ransom E. Olds ranks 28Before him are Burt Rutan (1943), Aron Ralston (1975), Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), Rudy Van Gelder (1924), Frederick Terman (1900), and Jack Parsons (1914). After him are K. Eric Drexler (1955), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), Alan Shugart (1930), Frances Spence (1922), Butler Lampson (1943), and Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898).