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Émile Baudot, a Common card
Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot was a French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 31
- Power
- 91
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,900
Power 91 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Émile Baudot quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Émile Baudot card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was one of the ______ of telecommunications.
Answer
pioneers. He was one of the pioneers of telecommunications. From the Émile Baudot article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Émile Baudot. Émile Baudot 60 · Celso Amorim 57 · Distrust 53 · Ispíní na hÉireann 50 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was one of the pioneers of telecommunications.
- He invented a multiplexed printing telegraph system that used his code and allowed multiple transmissions over a single line.
- The baud unit was named after him.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Émile Baudot article was read about 7,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 31: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Émile Baudot
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Émile Baudot (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Engraving by A. Delzers (1873-1943), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
