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Whitcomb L. Judson

1846 - 1909

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Whitcomb L. Judson (March 7, 1843 – December 7, 1909) was an American machine salesman, mechanical engineer and inventor. He received thirty patents over a sixteen-year career, fourteen of which were on pneumatic street railway innovations. Six of his patents had to do with a motor mechanism suspended beneath the rail-car that functioned with compressed air. He founded the Judson Pneumatic Street Railway. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Whitcomb L. Judson is the 313th most popular inventor (down from 279th in 2019), the 6,658th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,930th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Inventor.

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Among inventors, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 313 out of 426. Before him are Walter Clopton Wingfield, Štefan Banič, Wilhelm Bauer, Paul von Jankó, Wilson Greatbatch, and Abraham Darby I. After him are Rostislav Alexeyev, Kenjiro Takayanagi, Almon Brown Strowger, Walter Bruch, John Shepherd-Barron, and Nils Bohlin.

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Among people born in 1846, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 90. Before him are Ottomar Anschütz, Max von Hausen, Giulio Bizzozero, Kate Greenaway, Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, and Daniel Burnham. After him are Luc-Olivier Merson, Paul Déroulède, Karol Olszewski, Zygmunt Noskowski, Svatopluk Čech, and Rose Cleveland. Among people deceased in 1909, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 74. Before him are Eva Bonnier, Ruperto Chapí, George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Benoît-Constant Coquelin, Hermann Osthoff, and Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema. After him are Higinio Uriarte, Otto Sinding, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Ludwig Mond, Zygmunt Noskowski, and Fazlullah Nouri.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 6,660 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Martinet (1955), Carolyn Maloney (1946), Bambi Woods (1955), Sherry Lansing (1944), Barney Kessel (1923), and Willie Garson (1964). After him are Jay Cutler (1973), Lee Aaker (1943), Duffer brothers (1984), Samuel Dexter (1761), Godfrey Reggio (1940), and Evelyn Keyes (1916).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Whitcomb L. Judson ranks 81. Before him are Ralph Hartley (1888), Frank Zamboni (1901), Jacob Perkins (1766), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Marion Donovan (1917), and Wilson Greatbatch (1919). After him are Almon Brown Strowger (1839), George Devol (1912), Jack Northrop (1895), Hannibal Goodwin (1822), Joseph Engelberger (1925), and Edward Lawry Norton (1898).

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