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François Isaac de Rivaz

1752 - 1828

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François Isaac de Rivaz (December 19, 1752, in Paris – July 30, 1828, in Sion) was a French-born Swiss inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine with electric ignition and described it in a French patent published in 1807. In 1808 he fitted it into a primitive working vehicle – "the world's first internal combustion powered automobile". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. François Isaac de Rivaz is the 249th most popular inventor (up from 269th in 2019), the 3,346th most popular biography from France (up from 3,666th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 249 out of 426. Before him are John Kemp Starley, Wan Hu, Charles Martin Hall, Georges Hébert, Ricardo Wolf, and Ottó Bláthy. After him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Peter Madsen, Marcian Hoff, Vittorio Jano, Clive Sinclair, and George Pullman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 26. Before him are Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Anton Walter, Betsy Ross, Torii Kiyonaga, Alexander Tormasov, and Andrey Razumovsky. After him are Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Frances Burney, Maurice d'Elbée, Antonio Scarpa, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, and Albrecht Thaer. Among people deceased in 1828, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 27. Before him are Samuel Frederick Gray, Gilbert Stuart, Charlotte Buff, Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, and Lady Caroline Lamb. After him are Jacques Lauriston, Rachel Jackson, Christian August Lorentzen, Eise Eisinga, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, and Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 3,346 out of 6,770. Before him are Amélie Mauresmo (1979), Jean Stablinski (1932), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Émile Faguet (1847), Jean-Christophe Bouvet (1947), and Jacques Santini (1952). After him are Robert Jonquet (1925), Suzanne Curchod (1737), Gaston Rébuffat (1921), Érik Comas (1963), Hilary of Arles (401), and Jacques Marquette (1637).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, François Isaac de Rivaz ranks 32. Before him are Émile Baudot (1845), Georges Claude (1870), Édouard Branly (1844), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Wan Hu (1510), and Georges Hébert (1875). After him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815), Henri Fabre (1882), Louis Lumière (1864), Léon Gaumont (1864), Georges Beuchat (1910), and André Blondel (1863).

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