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Charles Sumner Tainter, a Common card
Charles Sumner Tainter was an American scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the Graphophone, one…
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 41
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,200
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Later in his career Tainter was associated with the International Graphopone Company of West Virginia, and also managed his own research and development laboratory, earning him the title: 'Father Of The Talking Machine'.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Charles Sumner Tainter article was read about 4,200 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 41: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Charles Sumner Tainter
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Charles Sumner Tainter (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : unknown, published 1917 in the San Diego Union ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
