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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 113,722 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Émile Baudot is the 215th most popular inventor (up from 228th in 2019), the 2,669th most popular biography from France (up from 2,798th in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Émile Baudot ranks 215 out of 354Before him are Max Skladanowsky, Robert Cornelius, Henry Maudslay, George de Mestral, Larry Sanger, and Gaston Glock. After him are François Isaac de Rivaz, Josip Belušić, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Henrich Focke, Robert Watson-Watt, and Thonmi Sambhota.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Émile Baudot ranks 44Before him are William, Prince of Wied, Eugène Grasset, Jan Czerski, Elihu Root, John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, and Friedrich Martens. After him are Àngel Guimerà, Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Henri Brocard, Ivan Puluj, Jules Guesde, and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. Among people deceased in 1903, Émile Baudot ranks 32Before him are Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, Gaston Paris, Ronglu, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Béni Kállay, and Frederick Law Olmsted. After him are William Ernest Henley, Hans Gude, James Glaisher, Apolinario Mabini, Malwida von Meysenbug, and Luigi Cremona.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Baudot ranks 2,669 out of 6,011Before him are André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Philippe de La Hire (1640), Olivier Assayas (1955), Pierre Rode (1774), Auguste Laurent (1807), and Abraham Bosse (1604). After him are François Joseph Paul de Grasse (1722), Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1828), Jules Jamin (1818), N'Golo Kanté (1991), Georges Wilson (1921), and Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700).

Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Émile Baudot ranks 31Before him are Charles Cros (1842), Georges Claude (1870), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Édouard Branly (1844), Wan Hu (1510), and Georges Hébert (1875). After him are François Isaac de Rivaz (1752), Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815), Léon Gaumont (1864), André Blondel (1863), and Franky Zapata (1978).