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Émile Baudot

1845 - 1903

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Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (French: [eˈmil boˈdo]; 11 September 1845 – 28 March 1903), French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications. He invented a multiplexed printing telegraph system that used his code and allowed multiple transmissions over a single line. The baud unit was named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Baudot is the 178th most popular inventor (up from 199th in 2019), the 2,281st most popular biography from France (up from 2,604th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Émile Baudot ranks 178 out of 426Before him are Sandford Fleming, Heinrich Göbel, Charles Cros, Uziel Gal, Gaston Glock, and Henrich Focke. After him are Artur Fischer, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Matthew Boulton, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Gunther von Hagens, and William Murdoch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Émile Baudot ranks 40Before him are Isidor Straus, Tristan Corbière, Jacint Verdaguer, Félix Tisserand, Harriet Backer, and Ödön Lechner. After him are Émile Boutroux, Eugène Grasset, Elihu Root, Tina Blau, Friedrich Martens, and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. Among people deceased in 1903, Émile Baudot ranks 29Before him are Sabino Arana, Camillo Sitte, Richard Jordan Gatling, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, and Karl Gegenbaur. After him are Charles Renouvier, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Hans Gude, Gaston Paris, Rudolf Lipschitz, and Paul Du Chaillu.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Baudot ranks 2,281 out of 6,770Before him are Marcellin Marbot (1782), Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880), Peter the Venerable (1092), Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757), Anne Golon (1921), and René Pottier (1879). After him are Maurice Papon (1910), Jean Metzinger (1883), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Robert de Boron (1110), Paul Émile Appell (1855), and Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953).

Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Émile Baudot ranks 26Before him are Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Louis Le Prince (1841), Henri Giffard (1825), Joseph Monier (1823), Guillaume Amontons (1663), and Charles Cros (1842). After him are Georges Claude (1870), Édouard Branly (1844), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Wan Hu (1510), Georges Hébert (1875), and François Isaac de Rivaz (1752).