INVENTOR

Wilhelm Maybach

1846 - 1929

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Wilhelm Maybach (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈmaɪbax] ; 9 February 1846 – 29 December 1929) was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of Designers". From the late 19th century Wilhelm Maybach, together with Gottlieb Daimler, developed light, high-speed internal combustion engines suitable for land, water, and air use. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Maybach has received more than 634,568 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Wilhelm Maybach is the 45th most popular inventor (up from 53rd in 2019), the 365th most popular biography from Germany (up from 463rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Inventor.

Wilhelm Maybach is most famous for designing the first internal combustion engine to be used in a car.

Memorability Metrics

  • 630k

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  • 68.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Wilhelm Maybach has had the most page views in the with 84,152 views, followed by German (28,398), and Russian (22,060). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (110.00%), Ukrainian (57.95%), and Catalan (38.55%)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Wilhelm Maybach ranks 45 out of 426. Before him are Adolphe Sax, Frank Whittle, John Logie Baird, Ruth Handler, Jimmy Wales, and Konrad Zuse. After him are John Herschel, Hans Lippershey, Willis Carrier, Herman Hollerith, Karl Drais, and William G. Morgan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Wilhelm Maybach ranks 7. Before him are Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Peter Carl Fabergé, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, George Westinghouse, and Edmondo De Amicis. After him are Comte de Lautréamont, Buffalo Bill, Wladimir Köppen, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, Naim Frashëri, and Prince Leopold of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1929, Wilhelm Maybach ranks 5. Before him are Karl Benz, Ferdinand Foch, Georges Clemenceau, and Gustav Stresemann. After him are Herman Hollerith, Bernhard von Bülow, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Emile Berliner, Sergei Diaghilev, and Aby Warburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Maybach ranks 365 out of 7,253. Before him are Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Heinrich Schütz (1585), Heinrich Mann (1871), Konrad Zuse (1910), Ludwig Beck (1880), and Ernst Thälmann (1886). After him are Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Joachim Gauck (1940), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), Duchess Helene in Bavaria (1834), Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486), and Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Wilhelm Maybach ranks 7. Before him are Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Karl Benz (1844), Nikolaus Otto (1832), Werner von Siemens (1816), Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850), and Konrad Zuse (1910). After him are Hans Lippershey (1570), Karl Drais (1785), Emile Berliner (1851), Adam Opel (1837), Joseph Pilates (1883), and Johann Philipp Reis (1834).

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