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Ivan Kulibin

1735 - 1818

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Ivan Petrovich Kulibin (April 21, 1735 – August 11, 1818) was a Russian mechanic and inventor. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of a trader. From childhood, Kulibin displayed an interest in constructing mechanical tools. Soon, clock mechanisms became a special interest of his. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Kulibin is the 305th most popular inventor (down from 290th in 2019), the 1,541st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,486th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ivan Kulibin ranks 305 out of 426Before him are L. L. Langstroth, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Bill Atkinson, Oleg Losev, George Graham, and Bernard Lown. After him are Marion Donovan, Walter Clopton Wingfield, Štefan Banič, Wilhelm Bauer, Paul von Jankó, and Wilson Greatbatch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Ivan Kulibin ranks 26Before him are Ignacy Krasicki, Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Paul Kray, Claudine Picardet, József Alvinczi, and Joseph Ducreux. After him are Domenico Vandelli, Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Ulrika Pasch, Tobias Furneaux, John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, and Jesse Ramsden. Among people deceased in 1818, Ivan Kulibin ranks 37Before him are Inō Tadataka, Martha Christina Tiahahu, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Nikolay Novikov, and Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. After him are Henry Lee III, Josef Abel, Johann David Wyss, Carl Frederik von Breda, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, and Arthur St. Clair.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Kulibin ranks 1,541 out of 3,761Before him are Mikhail Shchepkin (1788), Konstantin Aksakov (1817), Hadiya Davletshina (1905), Boris Morukov (1950), Mikhail Simonov (1929), and Galimzyan Khusainov (1937). After him are Johann Friedrich Adam (1780), Vera Glagoleva (1956), Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797), Aleksandr Baryatinsky (1815), Vladimir Tributs (1900), and Arkady Vorobyov (1924).

Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Ivan Kulibin ranks 11Before him are Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), and Oleg Losev (1903). After him are Rostislav Alexeyev (1916), and Ivan Polzunov (1728).