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Émile Baudot

1845 - 1903

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Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (French: [eˈmil boˈdo]; 11 September 1845 – 28 March 1903), French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications. He invented a multiplexed printing telegraph system that used his code and allowed multiple transmissions over a single line. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Baudot has received more than 121,554 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Émile Baudot is the 199th most popular inventor (up from 215th in 2019), the 2,603rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,660th in 2019) and the 29th most popular French Inventor.

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  • 120k

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  • 55.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Émile Baudot ranks 199 out of 426. Before him are Christopher Latham Sholes, Charles Xavier Thomas, David Edward Hughes, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Oskar Barnack, and Eunice Newton Foote. After him are David Schwarz, Raymond Damadian, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Henry Maudslay, Narcís Monturiol, and Bartolomeu de Gusmão.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Émile Baudot ranks 40. Before him are Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, Émile Boutroux, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Ödön Lechner, Harriet Backer, and Eugène Grasset. After him are Elihu Root, Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Walter Crane, Jan Czerski, Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil, and William, Prince of Wied. Among people deceased in 1903, Émile Baudot ranks 33. Before him are Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Gaston Paris, Apolinario Mabini, Hans Gude, Rudolf Lipschitz, and Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. After him are Giuseppe Zanardelli, Charles Renouvier, Béni Kállay, Alexander Bain, Luigi Cremona, and Malwida von Meysenbug.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Baudot ranks 2,603 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Lachenal (1921), Louis Camille Maillard (1878), Margaret of Foix (1453), Aristide Bruant (1851), Henri Pescarolo (1942), and Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734). After him are Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), Juliette Drouet (1806), Tony Garnier (1869), Bonne of Artois (1396), Charles Lavigerie (1825), and Yves Rocher (1930).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Émile Baudot ranks 29. Before him are Édouard Branly (1844), Guillaume Amontons (1663), Charles Cros (1842), Joseph Monier (1823), Georges Claude (1870), and Charles Xavier Thomas (1785). After him are Georges Hébert (1875), Léon Gaumont (1864), Wan Hu (1510), Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815), Louis Lumière (1864), and François Isaac de Rivaz (1752).

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