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Traian Vuia

1872 - 1950

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Traian Vuia or Trajan Vuia (Romanian pronunciation: [traˈjan ˈvuja]; 17 August 1872 – 3 September 1950) was a Romanian inventor and aviation pioneer who designed, built, and tested the first tractor monoplane. He was the first to demonstrate that a flying machine could rise into the air by running on wheels on an ordinary road. He is credited with a powered hop of 11 m (36 ft) made on 18 March, 1906, and he later claimed a powered hop of 24 m (79 ft). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Traian Vuia has received more than 247,887 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Traian Vuia is the 181st most popular inventor (down from 180th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Romania (up from 444th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Romanian Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.90

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  • 2.69

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Traian Vuia ranks 181 out of 354Before him are Hubert Cecil Booth, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Melvil Dewey, Matthew Boulton, Johann Christoph Denner, and Garrett Morgan. After him are Friedrich Zander, Gerald Bull, George Pullman, Royal Rife, J. Presper Eckert, and Bartolomeu de Gusmão.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Traian Vuia ranks 61Before him are Otto Braun, Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium, Sidónio Pais, Arsen Kotsoyev, Solomiya Krushelnytska, and Albert Sarraut. After him are Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme, Luigi Orione, Ludwig Klages, Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria, Hàm Nghi, and Theodor Lessing. Among people deceased in 1950, Traian Vuia ranks 65Before him are Nikolai Voznesensky, Walter Huston, Henry H. Arnold, Yvan Goll, Kim Kyu-sik, and Olaf Stapledon. After him are Edwin Sutherland, Hantaro Nagaoka, Walter Eucken, Walton Walker, Abraham Wald, and Kazys Grinius.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Traian Vuia ranks 135 out of 665Before him are László Bölöni (1953), Constantin Brâncoveanu (1654), Armand Călinescu (1893), Dora d'Istria (1828), Constantin Sănătescu (1885), and Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (1812). After him are László Tőkés (1952), Petre Roman (1946), Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817), Bálint Bakfark (1507), Ion I. C. Brătianu (1864), and Lucien Goldmann (1913).

Among INVENTORS In Romania

Among inventors born in Romania, Traian Vuia ranks 3Before him are Henri Coandă (1886) and Orban (1404).