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INVENTOR

Zénobe Gramme

1826 - 1901

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Zénobe Théophile Gramme (French pronunciation: [zenɔb teɔfil ɡʁam]; 4 April 1826 – 20 January 1901) was a Belgian electrical engineer. He was born at Jehay-Bodegnée on 4 April 1826, the sixth child of Mathieu-Joseph Gramme, and died at Bois-Colombes on 20 January 1901. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zénobe Gramme has received more than 93,915 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Zénobe Gramme is the 123rd most popular inventor (down from 113th in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 141st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belgian Inventor.

Zénobe Gramme is most famous for his invention of the Gramme machine. This machine is a generator that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Zénobe Gramme ranks 123 out of 354Before him are Alfred Krupp, Clément Ader, Clive Sinclair, John Kay, Richard Jordan Gatling, and Jean-Pierre Blanchard. After him are Lee de Forest, Josef Ressel, Gideon Sundback, Elisha Gray, Robert Adler, and Hugo Schmeisser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Zénobe Gramme ranks 11Before him are Charles XV of Sweden, Ludwig Minkus, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Stanislao Cannizzaro, and Armand David. After him are Frederic Edwin Church, Alexander Afanasyev, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Adolf Bastian. Among people deceased in 1901, Zénobe Gramme ranks 16Before him are Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Milan I of Serbia, Charles Hermite, Li Hongzhang, Abdur Rahman Khan, and Fukuzawa Yukichi. After him are Gaetano Bresci, Elisha Gray, Paul Rée, Josef Rheinberger, Francesco Crispi, and Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Zénobe Gramme ranks 164 out of 1,019Before him are Bavo of Ghent (589), Blanche of Namur (1320), Princess Louise of Belgium (1858), André Franquin (1924), Pierre De Geyter (1848), and Silvio Gesell (1862). After him are Bernard van Orley (1487), Laura Marx (1845), Heinrich Isaac (1450), Victor Serge (1890), Cipriano de Rore (1515), and Michel Preud'homme (1959).

Among INVENTORS In Belgium

Among inventors born in Belgium, Zénobe Gramme ranks 3Before him are Adolphe Sax (1814) and Jacques Piccard (1922). After him are Paul Otlet (1868), Robert Cailliau (1947), and George Washington (1871).