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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 229,270 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Whitcomb L. Judson is the 279th most popular inventor (up from 300th in 2019), the 4,930th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,731st in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 57.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 279 out of 426. Before him are Cyrus McCormick, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, Theodore Maiman, Samuel Morland, Michael S. Hart, and John Barnard. After him are Joseph Aspdin, Ralph Hartley, Prokop Diviš, George Devol, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, and Walter Zapp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 76. Before him are Lewis Boss, Marie Popelin, William Robertson Smith, Basil III of Constantinople, Friedrich Paulsen, and Johann Most. After him are Giuseppe De Nittis, Emil Warburg, Carrie Nation, Luc-Olivier Merson, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, and Alexandre de Serpa Pinto. Among people deceased in 1909, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 64. Before him are Giuseppe Martucci, Harry Seeley, Eva Bonnier, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Madan Lal Dhingra, and Innokenty Annensky. After him are Fazlullah Nouri, Euclides da Cunha, Manuel Amador Guerrero, Detlev von Liliencron, Ruperto Chapí, and Hermann Osthoff.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 4,930 out of 20,380. Before him are Saul Zaentz (1921), Alex Rocco (1936), James W. Christy (1938), Eileen Ryan (1927), Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774), and James Russell Lowell (1819). After him are John Lewis (1920), Seann William Scott (1976), Dennis Frederiksen (1951), Larry Tesler (1945), Chester Conklin (1886), and Jack Haley (1898).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 67. Before him are Laurens Hammond (1895), Robert Cornelius (1809), Glenn Curtiss (1878), Cyrus McCormick (1809), Theodore Maiman (1927), and Michael S. Hart (1947). After him are Ralph Hartley (1888), George Devol (1912), Jacob Perkins (1766), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), Henry M. Leland (1843), and Marion Donovan (1917).

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