INVENTOR

Tabitha Babbitt

1779 - 1853

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Sarah "Tabitha" Babbitt (December 9, 1779 - December 10, 1853) was a Shaker credited as a tool maker and inventor. Inventions attributed to her by the Shakers include the circular saw, the spinning wheel head, and false teeth. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tabitha Babbitt has received more than 150,744 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Tabitha Babbitt is the 321st most popular inventor (down from 289th in 2019), the 6,337th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,454th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Tabitha Babbitt ranks 321 out of 426. Before her are Ernst Alexanderson, Walter Bruch, Heinrich Gerber, Thomas Wedgwood, Victor Hasselblad, and Kálmán Kandó. After her are Patricia Bath, Jay Miner, Harry Ferguson, John Wilkinson, Edward Lawry Norton, and Ivan Polzunov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Tabitha Babbitt ranks 30. Before her are Filippo Paulucci, Jean Coralli, Francis Scott Key, Louis de Freycinet, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, and Johann Schweigger. After her are Washington Allston, José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle, Stephen Decatur, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Peter Mark Roget, and Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough. Among people deceased in 1853, Tabitha Babbitt ranks 45. Before her are Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, Cesare Balbo, William R. King, Lucas Alamán, and Andrés Narvarte. After her are Abigail Fillmore, William Beaumont, Ditlev Blunck, Joseph von Radowitz, Manuel María Lombardini, and Melchior von Diepenbrock.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tabitha Babbitt ranks 6,337 out of 20,380. Before her are Charles Hallahan (1943), Carl Scarborough (1914), Richard Portnow (1947), Stuart Gordon (1947), Tracey Walter (1947), and Kagney Linn Karter (1987). After her are Kerwin Mathews (1926), Richard D. Zanuck (1934), Tobias Wolff (1945), Bob James (1939), Charmian Carr (1942), and Monique Alexander (1982).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Tabitha Babbitt ranks 80. Before her are David Bushnell (1742), Dan Bricklin (1951), Ken Olsen (1926), Jack Northrop (1895), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), and Joseph Engelberger (1925). After her are Patricia Bath (1942), Jay Miner (1932), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Orville Gibson (1856), Hannibal Goodwin (1822), and Beulah Louise Henry (1888).

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