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Edwin Howard Armstrong

1890 - 1954

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Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Medal of Honor awarded by the Institute of Radio Engineers (now IEEE), the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal. He achieved the rank of major in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I and was often referred to as "Major Armstrong" during his career. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and included in the International Telecommunication Union's roster of great inventors. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Howard Armstrong is the 160th most popular inventor (down from 148th in 2019), the 2,647th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,090th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Edwin Howard Armstrong ranks 160 out of 426. Before him are Robert Moog, Friedrich Zander, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Joseph Monier, Paul Baran, and Christopher Latham Sholes. After him are Elizabeth Holmes, Zacharias Janssen, Oliver Lodge, Georg Luger, Alfred Vail, and Guillaume Amontons.

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Among people born in 1890, Edwin Howard Armstrong ranks 74. Before him are Vannevar Bush, Seiichi Itō, Andriy Melnyk, Grigory Kulik, Max Immelmann, and Sarah Aaronsohn. After him are Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Norman Bethune, Robert Stroud, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Victoria Ocampo, and Jacobus Oud. Among people deceased in 1954, Edwin Howard Armstrong ranks 50. Before him are Viktor Abakumov, Wilhelm Schmidt, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Franz Josef Popp, Oscar Straus, and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels. After him are Lionel Barrymore, Princess Antonia of Luxembourg, Jess McMahon, Franz Neumann, Marius Jacob, and Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Howard Armstrong ranks 2,647 out of 20,380. Before him are Leo McCarey (1898), Christina Aguilera (1980), John Breckinridge (1760), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Michael Phelps (1985), and Jean Tatlock (1914). After him are Shirley Chisholm (1924), John C. Calhoun (1782), Don Rickles (1926), Stephen Crane (1871), LP (1981), and Andrea M. Ghez (1965).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Edwin Howard Armstrong ranks 46. Before him are Elias Howe (1819), Peter Cooper (1791), Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), Mary Anderson (1862), Robert Moog (1934), and Christopher Latham Sholes (1819). After him are Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Alfred Vail (1807), Robert Metcalfe (1946), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), and Larry Sanger (1968).

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