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Preston Tucker

1903 - 1956

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Preston Thomas Tucker (21 September 1903 – 26 December 1956) was an American automobile entrepreneur who developed the innovative Tucker 48 sedan, initially nicknamed the "Tucker Torpedo", an automobile which introduced many features that have since become widely used in modern cars. Production of the Tucker '48 was shut down on 3 March 1949 amid scandal and controversial accusations of stock fraud, of which Tucker was eventually acquitted. The 1988 movie Tucker: The Man and His Dream is based on Tucker's spirit and the saga surrounding the car's production. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Preston Tucker is the 319th most popular engineer (down from 274th in 2019), the 8,795th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,327th in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Preston Tucker ranks 319 out of 389. Before him are Ralph Bagnold, Marina Popovich, Geoffrey de Havilland, Peter Chen, Sidney Darlington, and Charles Combes. After him are Yuri Artsutanov, Gordon Bell, Arthur E. Kennelly, Pavel Solovyov, Mario Theissen, and Louis Armand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Preston Tucker ranks 298. Before him are Curly Howard, M. King Hubbert, Alan Napier, Emil Hirschfeld, Béla Szepes, and Vicente Piera. After him are Gejus van der Meulen, Lajos Maszlay, Werner Klingler, Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés, George Coulouris, and Millard Mitchell. Among people deceased in 1956, Preston Tucker ranks 188. Before him are Billy Bishop, Frank Brangwyn, Werner Haas, Frederick G. Donnan, William Thompson, and Wollmar Boström. After him are Gerald Finzi, Theodor Pallady, Lajos Asztalos, Alice Greene, Robert Yerkes, and Manilal Gandhi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Preston Tucker ranks 8,797 out of 20,380. Before him are Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950), Walter Murch (1943), Stuart Hameroff (1947), Barry McGuire (1935), Nancy Kerrigan (1969), and Joseph P. Kerwin (1932). After him are Eben Moglen (1959), Wendell Corey (1914), Michael Andretti (1962), Nana Visitor (1957), Porter Goss (1938), and Fredric Lehne (1959).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Preston Tucker ranks 36. Before him are Frederick Terman (1900), Alan Shugart (1930), Kenneth Nichols (1907), Robert H. Dennard (1932), K. Eric Drexler (1955), and Sidney Darlington (1906). After him are Gordon Bell (1934), Beatrice Hicks (1919), Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898), T. Keith Glennan (1905), Chuck Peddle (1937), and Robert R. Gilruth (1913).

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