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Alexander Parkes

1813 - 1890

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Alexander Parkes (29 December 1813 – 29 June 1890) was a metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Parkes has received more than 215,575 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Alexander Parkes is the 242nd most popular inventor (down from 230th in 2019), the 2,156th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,097th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 220k

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  • 52.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Alexander Parkes ranks 242 out of 354. Before him are Eugen Langen, Fritz von Opel, Léon Gaumont, David Schwarz, James Dyson, and Joseph Whitworth. After him are Ottmar Mergenthaler, Theodore Maiman, Glenn Curtiss, Ray Dolby, Frank Zamboni, and Jacob W. Davis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Alexander Parkes ranks 36. Before him are Jørgen Moe, Frederick Scott Archer, Adolph Kolping, Agostino Depretis, Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Camilla Collett. After him are Thomas Andrews, Moritz Wagner, Ludwig Leichhardt, Charles Blanc, William Smith, and Carl Jaenisch. Among people deceased in 1890, Alexander Parkes ranks 37. Before him are Alexander Georg von Bunge, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Alexander Mozhaysky, Franz Lachner, Spotted Elk, and Johann Voldemar Jannsen. After him are Ignaz von Döllinger, James Nasmyth, Prince Karl of Auersperg, William Gull, Marianne North, and Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Parkes ranks 2,156 out of 7,765. Before him are Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1517), Pieter de Molijn (1595), Liam Gallagher (1972), Colin Renfrew (1937), Murray Head (1946), and Chas Chandler (1938). After him are Flora MacDonald (1722), George Buchanan (1506), Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915), Eddie Clarke (1950), Andrew Moray (1265), and Mick Box (1947).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Alexander Parkes ranks 39. Before him are Henry Maudslay (1771), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Elihu Thomson (1853), James Dyson (1947), and Joseph Whitworth (1803). After him are Samuel Morland (1625), James Nasmyth (1808), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Joseph Aspdin (1778), John Wilkinson (1728), and Thomas Wedgwood (1771).

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