# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-gestetner
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:35:29.562Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-gestetner"
name: "David Gestetner"
slug: "david-gestetner"
description: "David Gestetner was the inventor of the Gestetner stencil duplicator, the first piece of office equipment that allowed production of numerous copies of documents quickly and inexpensively. He also invented a new kind of nail clipper. Gestetner was awarded the John Scott Medal by The Franklin Institute in 1888."
tagline: "Austrian inventor (1854–1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Gestetner_outside_his_home_at_124_Highbury_New_Park_London_circa_1905.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1854-03-20"
deathDate: "1939-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.41
  momentum:             1.059602649006623
  historical:           6.151369333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ڈیوڈ گیسٹنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gestetner"
    title: "David Gestetner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gestetner"
    title: "David Gestetner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gestetner"
    title: "David Gestetner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestetner_D%C3%A1vid"
    title: "Gestetner Dávid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gestetner"
    title: "David Gestetner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gestetner"
    title: "David Gestetner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q652869"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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