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Robert W. Paul

1869 - 1943

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Robert William Paul (3 October 1869 – 28 March 1943) was an English pioneer of film and scientific instrument maker. He made narrative films as early as April 1895, which were shown first in Edison Kinetoscope knockoffs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert W. Paul has received more than 98,680 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert W. Paul is the 253rd most popular engineer (down from 223rd in 2019), the 3,196th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,668th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Robert W. Paul ranks 253 out of 323Before him are Mal Evans, Oskar von Miller, Robert Mallet, Peter Chen, Gerhard Fieseler, and Essam Sharaf. After him are Boris Chertok, James B. Francis, Rudy Van Gelder, Frederick Terman, Louis Vicat, and Hans Moravec.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Robert W. Paul ranks 115Before him are Yervant Odian, Marcel Cachin, Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Gerrit Smith Miller, Kálmán Kandó, and Daniel Salamanca Urey. After him are Johannes Linnankoski, Rihard Jakopič, August Blom, Carlo Airoldi, Alice Hamilton, and Sergey Chaplygin. Among people deceased in 1943, Robert W. Paul ranks 143Before him are Beatrice Webb, Helen Herron Taft, Dora Gerson, Milutin Ivković, Damrong Rajanubhab, and Frank Schlesinger. After him are Nils Dardel, Oskar Messter, Jenő Rejtő, Rihard Jakopič, Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and Adolf Urban.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert W. Paul ranks 3,196 out of 7,765Before him are James Nesbitt (1965), Sienna Guillory (1975), Martin Parr (1952), Robin Hill (1899), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), and Charles Lee (1731). After him are Adrian Boult (1889), Bob Anderson (1922), Clint Mansell (1963), Amelia Edwards (1831), James B. Francis (1815), and John Lennard-Jones (1894).

Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Robert W. Paul ranks 25Before him are William Playfair (1759), W. Ross Ashby (1903), André Waterkeyn (1917), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), William Froude (1810), and Mal Evans (1935). After him are James B. Francis (1815), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), Jesse Ramsden (1735), Isaac Roberts (1829), and R. J. Mitchell (1895).