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Eric Tigerstedt, a Common card
Eric Magnus Campbell Tigerstedt was a Finnish inventor best known as one of the most significant inventors in Finland at the beginning of the 20th century and has been called the "Thomas Edison of Finland".
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 28
- Power
- 90
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,400
Power 90 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Eric Tigerstedt quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Eric Tigerstedt card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was a pioneer of sound-on-film technology and made significant improvements to the ______ capacity of the vacuum valve.
Answer
amplification. He was a pioneer of sound-on-film technology and made significant improvements to the amplification capacity of the vacuum valve. From the Eric Tigerstedt article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Having seen a showing of the Lumière brothers' new motion picture technology as a nine-year-old boy in Helsinki in ____, he was inspired to bring sound to silent pictures.
Answer
1890s. Having seen a showing of the Lumière brothers' new motion picture technology as a nine-year-old boy in Helsinki in 1896, he was inspired to bring sound to silent pictures. From the Eric Tigerstedt article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Eric Tigerstedt. Eric Tigerstedt 62 · Wilhelm Windelband 58 · Roger Guillemin 55 · Cycle speedway 52 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 a pioneer of sound-on-film technology and made significant improvements to the amplification capacity of the vacuum valve.
- Having seen a showing of the Lumière brothers' new motion picture technology as a nine-year-old boy in Helsinki in 1896, he was inspired to bring sound to silent pictures.
- Many years later, in 1914, his demonstration film Word and Picture was presented to a gathering of scientific dignitaries in Berlin, but his invention was never commercialized.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Eric Tigerstedt article was read about 5,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 28: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Eric Tigerstedt
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Eric Tigerstedt (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
