INVENTOR

Sakichi Toyoda

1867 - 1930

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Sakichi Toyoda (豊田 佐吉, Toyoda Sakichi, March 19, 1867 – October 30, 1930) was a Japanese inventor and industrialist who founded Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (later Toyota Industries). The son of a farmer and sought-after carpenter, he started the Toyoda family companies. His son, Kiichiro Toyoda, would later establish Japan's largest automaker, Toyota. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sakichi Toyoda has received more than 708,803 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Sakichi Toyoda is the 82nd most popular inventor (up from 83rd in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Japan (down from 132nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Inventor.

Sakichi Toyoda was most famous for inventing the Toyoda Automatic Loom.

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  • 710k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Sakichi Toyoda ranks 82 out of 426. Before him are Kōnosuke Matsushita, Jacques de Vaucanson, Alois Senefelder, Ray Tomlinson, Bi Sheng, and Thomas Savery. After him are Henry Bessemer, James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, and Mary the Jewess.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Sakichi Toyoda ranks 27. Before him are Stanley Baldwin, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ignacy Mościcki, Irving Fisher, Umberto Giordano, and Hector Guimard. After him are Eugen Sandow, Alexander Parvus, Margaret Brown, Rubén Darío, Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1930, Sakichi Toyoda ranks 22. Before him are Alfred von Tirpitz, D. H. Lawrence, Horst Wessel, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Siegfried Wagner, and Prince Leopold of Bavaria. After him are Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Adolf von Harnack, Luigi Facta, Adolf Engler, Silvio Gesell, and Vasily Bartold.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sakichi Toyoda ranks 144 out of 6,245. Before him are Kakuichi Mimura (1931), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), Tameo Ide (1908), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Kuniaki Koiso (1880), and Makoto Kobayashi (1944). After him are Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Emperor Sujin (-147), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Emperor Kanmu (737), Emperor Kōrei (-341), and Torakusu Yamaha (1851).

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Among INVENTORS In Japan

Among inventors born in Japan, Sakichi Toyoda ranks 2. Before him are Kōnosuke Matsushita (1894). After him are Shigeo Shingo (1909), Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928), and Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899).

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