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Walter Hunt

1796 - 1859

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Walter Hunt (July 29, 1796 – June 8, 1859) was an American mechanical engineer. Through the course of his work he became known for being a prolific inventor. He first became involved with mechanical innovations in a linseed producing community in New York state that had flax mills. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Hunt has received more than 39,243 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Walter Hunt is the 220th most popular inventor (up from 251st in 2019), the 3,342nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,890th in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 54.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Walter Hunt ranks 220 out of 426. Before him are Helmut Gröttrup, John Wesley Hyatt, Artur Fischer, George Washington, Josip Belušić, and Max Skladanowsky. After him are Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Vittorio Jano, George Pullman, Lou Ottens, Robert Watson-Watt, and Robert Ludvigovich Bartini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Walter Hunt ranks 29. Before him are François Mignet, David Roberts, Carl Ludwig Blume, Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, Karl Ernst Claus, and Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia. After him are John Stevens Henslow, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, and Manto Mavrogenous. Among people deceased in 1859, Walter Hunt ranks 35. Before him are Karl Baedeker, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Zygmunt Krasiński, Nana Sahib, Sergey Aksakov, and Tatya Tope. After him are Princess Anna of Saxony, William Cranch Bond, Horace Mann, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, John Walker, and Stefan Bogoridi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Hunt ranks 3,342 out of 20,380. Before him are Eric Carle (1929), Fred Willard (1939), Marcus Miller (1959), Ice Cube (1969), Lon Chaney (1883), and Robert Gallo (1937). After him are Jeffrey Hunter (1926), Scatman Crothers (1910), Wilson Pickett (1941), Hill Harper (1966), Lindsay Lohan (1986), and Sandra Day O'Connor (1930).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Walter Hunt ranks 54. Before him are Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Raymond Damadian (1936), Melvil Dewey (1851), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Robert Metcalfe (1946), and John Wesley Hyatt (1837). After him are George Pullman (1831), Marcian Hoff (1937), Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Ray Dolby (1933), and Frank Zamboni (1901).

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