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Harry Brearley

1871 - 1948

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Harry Brearley (18 February 1871 – 14 July 1948) was an English metallurgist, credited with the invention of "rustless steel" (later to be called "stainless steel" in the anglophone world). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Brearley has received more than 174,917 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Harry Brearley is the 264th most popular inventor (up from 317th in 2019), the 2,555th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,450th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Inventor.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Harry Brearley ranks 264 out of 426. Before him are Petrache Poenaru, Arthur Wynne, Jacob W. Davis, Wan Hu, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, and Frederick Scott Archer. After him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Louis Lumière, Walter Clopton Wingfield, Colin Archer, François Isaac de Rivaz, and Yoshiro Nakamatsu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Harry Brearley ranks 98. Before him are Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Nándor Dáni, Zacharia Paliashvili, Arthur Wynne, Friedrich Akel, and Benjamin I of Constantinople. After him are Gino Fano, Lou Tseng-Tsiang, Igor Grabar, Daniel Alomía Robles, Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, and Nils Edén. Among people deceased in 1948, Harry Brearley ranks 117. Before him are Avetis Aharonian, Fred Niblo, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Zhou Fohai, Giulio Gaudini, and Richard von Kühlmann. After him are Louis Lumière, Nikolai Podvoisky, Sigrid Hjertén, August Hlond, František Svoboda, and Carole Landis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harry Brearley ranks 2,555 out of 8,785. Before him are Simon Le Bon (1958), George Gissing (1857), James Galway (1939), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Robert Kerr (1882), and Walter Legge (1906). After him are Alan Lee (1947), Edwin Landseer (1802), Bryan Johnson (1926), Freddie Highmore (1992), Robert Liston (1794), and Æthelfrith (600).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Harry Brearley ranks 43. Before him are John Kemp Starley (1854), Joseph Whitworth (1803), Abraham Darby I (1678), James Nasmyth (1808), Arthur Wynne (1871), and Frederick Scott Archer (1813). After him are Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Samuel Morland (1625), John Barnard (1946), Joseph Aspdin (1778), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), and Rowland Hill (1795).

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