发明家

Isaac Singer

1811 - 1875

Isaac Singer

艾萨克·梅瑞特·辛格（英語：Isaac Merritt Singer，1811年10月27日—1875年7月23日）是美国的发明家、演员、商人。他对縫紉機进行了重大改良，是勝家衣車的创始人。纵然许多人在他之前都取得过缝纫机的专利，但是辛格的成功之处在于将缝纫机变得更佳便于使用，使得缝纫机终于走入了千家万户。辛格先后与多个妻子结婚，共育有24个子女。在维基百科上阅读更多

His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2024). Isaac Singer is the 66th most popular 发明家 (down from 63rd in 2024), the 853rd most popular biography from United States (down from 622nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular American 发明家.

Isaac Singer is most famous for his short stories. His best known work is "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy" which is a story about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to go to a Jewish school that would not allow girls.

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Among 发明家

Among 发明家, Isaac Singer ranks 66 out of 426. Before him are Louis Blériot, Emile Berliner, Willis Carrier, Étienne Lenoir, Theodore Maiman, and Louis Renault. After him are Alberto Santos-Dumont, John Deere, Henry Fox Talbot, Josephine Cochrane, Les Paul, and Ruth Handler.

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Louis Blériot
1872 - 1936
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 60
Emile Berliner
1851 - 1929
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 61
Willis Carrier
1876 - 1950
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 62
Étienne Lenoir
1822 - 1900
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 63
Theodore Maiman
1927 - 2007
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 64
Louis Renault
1877 - 1944
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 65
Isaac Singer
1811 - 1875
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 66
Alberto Santos-Dumont
1873 - 1932
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 67
John Deere
1804 - 1886
HPI: 70.77
Rank: 68
Henry Fox Talbot
1800 - 1877
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 69
Josephine Cochrane
1839 - 1913
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 70
Les Paul
1915 - 2009
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 71
Ruth Handler
1916 - 2002
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 72

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Isaac Singer ranks 9. Before him are Évariste Galois, Urbain Le Verrier, Robert Bunsen, Maximilian II of Bavaria, Théophile Gautier, and William Makepeace Thackeray. After him are Harriet Beecher Stowe, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Vissarion Belinsky, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, François Achille Bazaine, and Louis Blanc. Among people deceased in 1875, Isaac Singer ranks 11. Before him are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Éliphas Lévi, Andrew Johnson, John Edward Gray, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, and Charles Lyell. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Charles Wheatstone, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 12th Dalai Lama, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and Moses Hess.

Others Born in 1811

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Évariste Galois
MATHEMATICIAN
1811 - 1832
HPI: 80.32
Rank: 3
Urbain Le Verrier
MATHEMATICIAN
1811 - 1877
HPI: 76.54
Rank: 4
Robert Bunsen
CHEMIST
1811 - 1899
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 5
Maximilian II of Bavaria
POLITICIAN
1811 - 1864
HPI: 75.14
Rank: 6
Théophile Gautier
WRITER
1811 - 1872
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 7
William Makepeace Thackeray
WRITER
1811 - 1863
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 8
Isaac Singer
INVENTOR
1811 - 1875
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 9
Harriet Beecher Stowe
WRITER
1811 - 1896
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 10
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
COMPANION
1811 - 1890
HPI: 70.90
Rank: 11
Vissarion Belinsky
CRITIC
1811 - 1848
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 12
Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern
POLITICIAN
1811 - 1885
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 13
François Achille Bazaine
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1811 - 1888
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 14
Louis Blanc
POLITICIAN
1811 - 1882
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 15