INVENTOR

Frank Whittle

1907 - 1996

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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, (1 June 1907 – 8 August 1996) was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with co-creating the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention which was technically unfeasible at the time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Whittle has received more than 1,176,841 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Frank Whittle is the 40th most popular inventor (up from 54th in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 398th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Inventor.

Frank Whittle is most famous for inventing the jet engine.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 17.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Frank Whittle ranks 40 out of 426. Before him are George Westinghouse, Igor Sikorsky, Robert Fulton, László Bíró, Richard Trevithick, and Adolphe Sax. After him are John Logie Baird, Ruth Handler, Jimmy Wales, Konrad Zuse, Wilhelm Maybach, and John Herschel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Frank Whittle ranks 16. Before him are Alberto Moravia, Laurence Olivier, Hergé, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Baldur von Schirach, and Rachel Carson. After him are Junji Nishikawa, Jacques Tati, Lin Biao, Hideki Yukawa, Robert A. Heinlein, and Lars Ahlfors. Among people deceased in 1996, Frank Whittle ranks 13. Before him are Marguerite Duras, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Joseph Brodsky, and Ella Fitzgerald. After him are Tadeusz Reichstein, René Lacoste, Paul Erdős, Lars Ahlfors, Silvio Piola, and Babrak Karmal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frank Whittle ranks 271 out of 8,785. Before him are James George Frazer (1854), Ælfweard of Wessex (904), Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882), Liz Truss (1975), Daniel Day-Lewis (1957), and Edward Victor Appleton (1892). After him are Jane Goodall (1934), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), John Deacon (1951), Bede (672), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), and Emmeline Pankhurst (1858).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Frank Whittle ranks 7. Before him are James Watt (1736), Alexander Graham Bell (1847), Charles Babbage (1791), George Stephenson (1781), Thomas Newcomen (1663), and Richard Trevithick (1771). After him are John Logie Baird (1888), John Herschel (1792), John Boyd Dunlop (1840), Henry Fox Talbot (1800), Thomas Savery (1650), and Henry Bessemer (1813).

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