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Tabitha Babbitt

1779 - 1853

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Sarah "Tabitha" Babbitt (December 9, 1779 - 10 December 1853) was a Shaker credited to 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 140,784 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Tabitha Babbitt is the 289th most popular inventor, the 5,466th most popular biography from United States and the 72nd most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Tabitha Babbitt ranks 289 out of 354Before her are Jack Northrop, Rostislav Alexeyev, Wilson Greatbatch, Rowland Hill, Peter Carl Goldmark, and Ralph Hartley. After her are John Barnard, Walter Bruch, Bernard Lown, Almon Brown Strowger, Kálmán Kandó, and Joseph Bramah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Tabitha Babbitt ranks 27Before her are Adam Müller, Jean Coralli, Francis Scott Key, Filippo Paulucci, Johann Schweigger, and Ali-Morad Khan Zand. After her are Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Washington Allston, Louis de Freycinet, Joel Roberts Poinsett, and Peter Mark Roget. Among people deceased in 1853, Tabitha Babbitt ranks 39Before her are Branko Radičević, Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, William R. King, Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, and Maria Quitéria. After her are Sarah Goodridge, Cesare Balbo, William Beaumont, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Abigail Fillmore, and Lucas Alamán.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tabitha Babbitt ranks 5,466 out of 18,182Before her are Karl Lashley (1890), Leif Erickson (1911), Lane Smith (1936), Jack Conway (1887), Chloë Sevigny (1974), and Jack Oakie (1903). After her are Rockwell Kent (1882), Jane Greer (1924), Lawrence Tierney (1919), Mae Jemison (1956), Red Garland (1923), and Jean Shiley (1911).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Tabitha Babbitt ranks 72Before her are Lester Allan Pelton (1829), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Jack Northrop (1895), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), and Ralph Hartley (1888). After her are Almon Brown Strowger (1839), Henry M. Leland (1843), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), Lynn Conway (1938), and George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859).