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Charles Algernon Parsons

1854 - 1931

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Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (13 June 1854 – 11 February 1931) was an English mechanical engineer known for his invention of the compound steam turbine, and as the eponym of C. A. Parsons and Company. He worked as an engineer on dynamo and turbine design, and power generation, with great influence on the naval and electrical engineering fields. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Algernon Parsons has received more than 345,876 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Charles Algernon Parsons is the 144th most popular inventor (up from 153rd in 2019), the 1,221st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,285th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Charles Algernon Parsons ranks 144 out of 426. Before him are Robert Cailliau, John Ericsson, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Georg Luger, John Kay, and Sequoyah. After him are Robert Stirling, Elias Howe, Uziel Gal, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Viktor Schauberger, and Bob Kahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Charles Algernon Parsons ranks 31. Before him are Alfredo Catalani, Hubert Lyautey, Aletta Jacobs, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Takahashi Korekiyo, and Otto Sverdrup. After him are Alphonse Allais, Zhang Xun, Moritz Moszkowski, Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza, Hertha Ayrton, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. Among people deceased in 1931, Charles Algernon Parsons ranks 38. Before him are Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Thomas Lipton, Giovanni Boldini, Vincent d'Indy, Jaime, Duke of Madrid, and Auguste Forel. After him are Antonio Salandra, Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, Joe Masseria, Santiago Rusiñol, Eugene de Blaas, and Motilal Nehru.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Algernon Parsons ranks 1,221 out of 8,785. Before him are Alistair MacLean (1922), Ruth Rendell (1930), Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (1480), Henry Thomas Buckle (1821), David Thewlis (1963), and Alasdair Gray (1934). After him are Black (1962), Stephen Hales (1677), Dave Evans (1953), Jimmy Savile (1926), James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812), and George Biddell Airy (1801).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Charles Algernon Parsons ranks 22. Before him are William Webb Ellis (1806), John Harrison (1693), Edmund Cartwright (1743), Samuel Crompton (1753), W. O. Bentley (1888), and John Kay (1704). After him are Robert Stirling (1790), William Murdoch (1754), Elihu Thomson (1853), Matthew Boulton (1728), James Dyson (1947), and Sandford Fleming (1827).

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