INVENTOR

Siegfried Marcus

1831 - 1898

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Siegfried Samuel Marcus (German: [ˈziːkfʁiːt ˈmaʁkʊs]; 18 September 1831 – 1 July 1898) was a German engineer and inventor, born in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He made the first petrol-powered vehicle, a handcart, in 1870, while living in Vienna, Austria. Marcus created a second vehicle in 1888/1889, but it is not known if he used it, and he did not develop it further. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Siegfried Marcus has received more than 242,055 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Siegfried Marcus is the 166th most popular inventor (up from 168th in 2019), the 2,044th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,997th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Inventor.

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  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Siegfried Marcus ranks 166 out of 426. Before him are William Murdoch, Hovannes Adamian, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Royal Rife, Angelo Moriondo, and Lucien Olivier. After him are Édouard Branly, Elihu Thomson, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Guillaume Amontons, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, and Reginald Fessenden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Siegfried Marcus ranks 39. Before him are Paul Durand-Ruel, Anna Leonowens, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Othniel Charles Marsh, Ankō Itosu, and Princess Helena of Nassau. After him are Philip Sheridan, Peter Nicolai Arbo, Daniele Comboni, David Edward Hughes, Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, and Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola. Among people deceased in 1898, Siegfried Marcus ranks 31. Before him are Zachris Topelius, Prince Gong, Georges Rodenbach, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, Georg Ebers, and Tuone Udaina. After him are George Müller, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Pavel Tretyakov, Carl Zeller, and Antoine François Marmontel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Siegfried Marcus ranks 2,044 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Barkmann (1919), George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1547), Princess Helena of Nassau (1831), Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1857), Philip, Elector Palatine (1448), and Ludwig Crüwell (1892). After him are Curt Sachs (1881), Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg (1711), Ulrich Mühe (1953), Ralf Hütter (1946), Frederick I, Elector Palatine (1425), and Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1688).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Siegfried Marcus ranks 22. Before him are Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Uziel Gal (1923), Peter Henlein (1479), Heinrich Göbel (1818), and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787). After him are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Henrich Focke (1890), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Oskar Barnack (1879), and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823).

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