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Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831

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Henry Maudslay (pronunciation and spelling) (22 August 1771 – 14 February 1831) was an English machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor. He is considered a founding father of machine tool technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Maudslay has received more than 231,188 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Henry Maudslay is the 203rd most popular inventor (up from 211th in 2019), the 1,755th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,852nd in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Inventor.

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  • 54.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henry Maudslay ranks 203 out of 426. Before him are Oskar Barnack, Eunice Newton Foote, Émile Baudot, David Schwarz, Raymond Damadian, and Carl Wilhelm Siemens. After him are Narcís Monturiol, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Melvil Dewey, Shigeo Shingo, Oliver Lodge, and Lars Magnus Ericsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Henry Maudslay ranks 27. Before him are Rahel Varnhagen, Ferdinando Paer, Nicolas Chopin, Jean Rapp, Fra Diavolo, and Georges Cadoudal. After him are Nikolay Raevsky, Johann Baptist Cramer, Pierre Baillot, Vincenzo Camuccini, Ivan Martinov, and Józef Chłopicki. Among people deceased in 1831, Henry Maudslay ranks 30. Before him are Henri Grégoire, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Princess Louise of Denmark, Sébastien Érard, and James Hoban. After him are Jedediah Smith, Ryōkan, Vasily Golovnin, Franz Krommer, Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony, and Ferenc Kazinczy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Maudslay ranks 1,755 out of 8,785. Before him are Antony Beevor (1946), William Auld (1924), Pieter de Molijn (1595), Fergus Suter (1857), Thom Yorke (1968), and Patrick Geddes (1854). After him are Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215), John Flaxman (1755), Archibald Leitch (1865), Leonard Woolf (1880), Sigfrid of Sweden (1000), and Dorothy Shepherd-Barron (1897).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Henry Maudslay ranks 31. Before him are Elihu Thomson (1853), Matthew Boulton (1728), James Dyson (1947), Sandford Fleming (1827), Jethro Tull (1674), and David Edward Hughes (1831). After him are Oliver Lodge (1851), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Alexander Parkes (1813), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), Clive Sinclair (1940), and John Kemp Starley (1854).

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