# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-jackson-beard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:53:31.784Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-jackson-beard"
name: "Andrew Jackson Beard"
slug: "andrew-jackson-beard"
description: "Andrew Jackson Beard was a black inventor, who introduced five improvements to the automatic railroad car coupler in 1897 and 1899, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2006 for this achievement."
tagline: "American inventor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1849"
deathDate: "1921"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.477250666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Beard"
    title: "Andrew Jackson Beard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "أندرو جاكسون بيرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "اندرو جاكسون بيرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%A6%D8%B1%DA%88"
    title: "اینڈریو جیکسن بیئرڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Beard"
    title: "Andrew Jackson Beard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Beard"
    title: "Andrew Jackson Beard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757455"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump