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Richard Jordan Gatling

1818 - 1903

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Richard Jordan Gatling (September 12, 1818 – February 26, 1903) was an American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun, which is considered to be the first successful machine gun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Jordan Gatling has received more than 503,013 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Richard Jordan Gatling is the 121st most popular inventor (up from 130th in 2019), the 1,530th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,674th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 59.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Richard Jordan Gatling ranks 121 out of 354. Before him are Theobald Boehm, Elias Howe, Alfred Krupp, Clément Ader, Clive Sinclair, and John Kay. After him are Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Zénobe Gramme, Lee de Forest, Josef Ressel, Gideon Sundback, and Elisha Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Richard Jordan Gatling ranks 26. Before him are August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Frederick Douglass, Angelo Secchi, Mary Todd Lincoln, Thomas Mayne Reid, and Amalia of Oldenburg. After him are François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Hermann Kolbe, Tewodros II, Zachris Topelius, Emil du Bois-Reymond, and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. Among people deceased in 1903, Richard Jordan Gatling ranks 21. Before him are Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Gemma Galgani, Vasily Dokuchaev, Draga Mašin, and Camillo Sitte. After him are Marcel Renault, Sabino Arana, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Rudolf Lipschitz, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, and Gaston Paris.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Jordan Gatling ranks 1,530 out of 18,182. Before him are John Zorn (1953), Marvin Minsky (1927), William Westmoreland (1914), Steve Ditko (1927), Peter Weller (1947), and Fats Domino (1928). After him are Husband E. Kimmel (1882), Beyoncé (1981), Janet Yellen (1946), Dorothy Malone (1924), Carson McCullers (1917), and Richard F. Heck (1931).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Richard Jordan Gatling ranks 28. Before him are Leo Fender (1909), Bob Kahn (1938), Robert Noyce (1927), Jacque Fresco (1916), Percy Spencer (1894), and Elias Howe (1819). After him are Lee de Forest (1873), Elisha Gray (1835), Robert Moog (1934), Josiah Warren (1798), Alfred Vail (1807), and Mary Anderson (1862).

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