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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 got first 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 38,530 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Walter Hunt is the 251st most popular inventor (up from 261st in 2019), the 3,901st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,312th in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Walter Hunt ranks 251 out of 354Before him are Glenn Curtiss, Ray Dolby, Frank Zamboni, Jacob W. Davis, Ottó Bláthy, and Aimo Lahti. After him are Aurel Stodola, Eunice Newton Foote, Colin Archer, Pavel Yablochkov, Ernst Alexanderson, and Tivadar Puskás.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Walter Hunt ranks 35Before him are John Stevens Henslow, Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Manto Mavrogenous, Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, and Johann Christian Poggendorff. After him are Francis Crozier, William H. Prescott, George Catlin, Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, Fernán Caballero, and Anton Pann. Among people deceased in 1859, Walter Hunt ranks 38Before him are Zygmunt Krasiński, Tatya Tope, Sergey Aksakov, Carl Adolph Agardh, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, and William Cranch Bond. After him are William H. Prescott, John Walker, José de Madrazo y Agudo, Horace Mann, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, and Thaddeus Bulgarin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Hunt ranks 3,901 out of 18,182Before him are Catherine Keener (1959), Robert Darnton (1939), Marion Davies (1897), Alice Brady (1892), Aaliyah (1979), and Taj Mahal (1942). After him are Elizabeth Loftus (1944), Robert Rodriguez (1968), Ralph Linton (1893), Betty Mahmoody (1945), Wallace Beery (1885), and John King Fairbank (1907).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Walter Hunt ranks 60Before him are Ruth Handler (1916), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Theodore Maiman (1927), Glenn Curtiss (1878), Ray Dolby (1933), and Frank Zamboni (1901). After him are Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Cyrus McCormick (1809), Michael S. Hart (1947), Robert Metcalfe (1946), David Bushnell (1742), and Lester Allan Pelton (1829).