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Adam Opel

1837 - 1895

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Adam Opel (9 May 1837 – 8 September 1895) was a German entrepreneur who founded the company Adam Opel AG, then a manufacturer of bicycles and sewing machines. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Opel is the 56th most popular inventor (up from 61st in 2019), the 572nd most popular biography from Germany and the 10th most popular German Inventor.

Adam Opel AG is a German automobile manufacturer headquartered in Rüsselsheim, Hesse, Germany. It was founded in 1862 by Adam Opel.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Adam Opel ranks 56 out of 426. Before him are Douglas Engelbart, Konrad Zuse, Hiram Maxim, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Richard Trevithick, and Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. After him are Charles Goodyear, William G. Morgan, John Boyd Dunlop, Louis Blériot, Emile Berliner, and Willis Carrier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Adam Opel ranks 15. Before him are J. P. Morgan, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Yohannes IV, Cosima Wagner, and Pedro V of Portugal. After him are Édouard Stephan, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Paul Morphy, Ivan Kramskoi, Marie François Sadi Carnot, and John Newlands. Among people deceased in 1895, Adam Opel ranks 12. Before him are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, José Martí, Franz von Suppé, Empress Myeongseong, Isma'il Pasha, and Julius Lothar Meyer. After him are Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, John Russell Hind, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Charles Frederick Worth, and Johann Josef Loschmidt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adam Opel ranks 572 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Carstens (1914), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Hendrik Goltzius (1558), and August Schleicher (1821). After him are Willi Stoph (1914), Max Delbrück (1906), Patrick Süskind (1949), Hans Eysenck (1916), Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737), and Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Adam Opel ranks 10. Before him are Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850), Hans Lippershey (1570), Werner von Siemens (1816), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Karl Drais (1785), and Konrad Zuse (1910). After him are Emile Berliner (1851), Joseph Pilates (1883), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Theobald Boehm (1794), Hans von Ohain (1911), and Alfred Krupp (1812).

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