Elihu Thomson, a Common card

Elihu Thomson was an English-American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Common
Domain: Science
ATK: 59
DEF: 38
Power: 97
Wikipedia reads a year: 14,000

Power 97 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

Elihu Thomson was an English-American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

Why it is Common

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Elihu Thomson article was read about 14,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, Elihu Thomson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : General Electric Company, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.