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Gustave Whitehead

1874 - 1927

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Gustave Albin Whitehead (born Gustav Albin Weisskopf; 1 January 1874 – 10 October 1927) was a German–American aviation pioneer. Between 1897 and 1915, he designed and built gliders, flying machines, and engines. Controversy surrounds published accounts and Whitehead's own claims that he flew a powered machine successfully several times in 1901 and 1902, predating the first flights by the Wright brothers in 1903. Much of Whitehead's reputation rests on a newspaper article which was written as an eyewitness report and describes his powered and sustained flight in Connecticut on 14 August 1901. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustave Whitehead is the 172nd most popular engineer (down from 139th in 2019), the 3,111th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,511th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Gustave Whitehead ranks 172 out of 389. Before him are John Hughes, Hugo Eckener, Antoine de Chézy, Peter Hirsch, Alexei Tupolev, and Riccardo Morandi. After him are Louis Charles Breguet, Hanns Hörbiger, Alphonse Pénaud, Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, Alexander Mozhaysky, and Gérard Larrousse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Gustave Whitehead ranks 104. Before him are George Tupou II, Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria, Charles Despiau, Photius II of Constantinople, Wincenty Witos, and Ricardo Flores Magón. After him are Constantin Ion Parhon, Bill Holland, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Pierre Souvestre, and Rudolf Maister. Among people deceased in 1927, Gustave Whitehead ranks 74. Before him are Hermann Muthesius, Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Charles Nungesser, Laurits Tuxen, Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz, and Charles Doolittle Walcott. After him are Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Émile Coste, Erik Ivar Fredholm, Francis Lane, Carl Graebe, and Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustave Whitehead ranks 3,113 out of 7,253. Before him are Lorenz Heister (1683), Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (1901), Armin Hary (1937), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Otto Ambros (1901), and Hans Graf von Sponeck (1888). After him are Carl Chun (1852), Friedrich von Gärtner (1791), Johann Rosenmüller (1619), Günter Eich (1907), Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1844), and Albrecht Ritschl (1822).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Gustave Whitehead ranks 25. Before him are Hellmuth Walter (1900), Walter Hohmann (1880), Anton Flettner (1885), Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), Hugo Eckener (1868), and Peter Hirsch (1925). After him are Franz Grashof (1826), Johann Georg Halske (1814), Arthur Rudolph (1906), Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), Paul Mauser (1838), and Gerhard Fieseler (1896).

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