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Whitcomb L. Judson

1846 - 1909

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Whitcomb L. Judson (March 7, 1843 – December 7, 1909) was an American machine salesman, mechanical engineer and inventor. He received thirty patents over a sixteen-year career, fourteen of which were on pneumatic street railway innovations. Six of his patents had to do with a motor mechanism suspended beneath the rail-car that functioned with compressed air. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Whitcomb L. Judson has received more than 216,085 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Whitcomb L. Judson is the 300th most popular inventor (down from 298th in 2019), the 5,743rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,959th in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.07

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  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 300 out of 354. Before him are Kálmán Kandó, Joseph Bramah, Harry Ferguson, Henry M. Leland, Max Valier, and Henry J. Kaiser. After him are David Dunbar Buick, Jacob Ellehammer, Ivan Polzunov, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Lynn Conway, and George Washington Gale Ferris Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 87. Before him are Ignaz Brüll, Daniel Burnham, Giulio Bizzozero, Emil Warburg, Zygmunt Noskowski, and Kate Greenaway. After him are Carrie Nation, Alexander Karpinsky, Svatopluk Čech, László Paál, Elizabeth Thompson, and Anna Katharine Green. Among people deceased in 1909, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 66. Before him are Euclides da Cunha, Innokenty Annensky, Frederic Remington, Manuel Amador Guerrero, Detlev von Liliencron, and Zygmunt Noskowski. After him are Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Ludwig Mond, Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman, Carl Holmberg, Otto Sinding, and Higinio Uriarte.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 5,743 out of 18,182. Before him are Edgar Leonard (1881), Gabrielle Carteris (1961), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), Tiny Sandford (1894), Walter J. Ong (1912), and Carey Lowell (1961). After him are Odetta (1930), John Gray (1951), Kenny Johnson (1963), Theresa Russell (1957), Eddie Tolan (1908), and Chuck Schumer (1950).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 76. Before him are Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Ralph Hartley (1888), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Almon Brown Strowger (1839), Henry M. Leland (1843), and Henry J. Kaiser (1882). After him are Lynn Conway (1938), George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859), John Fitch (1743), Jay Miner (1932), Robert S. Langer (1948), and Marion Donovan (1917).

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