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Henry Shrapnel

1761 - 1842

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Lieutenant-General Henry Scrope Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) was a British Army officer whose name has entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Shrapnel has received more than 613,008 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Shrapnel is the 298th most popular inventor (up from 320th in 2019), the 3,012th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,505th in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Inventor.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henry Shrapnel ranks 298 out of 426. Before him are Alexandre Alexeieff, Jacob Ellehammer, Henry M. Leland, Štefan Banič, Rowland Hill, and George Graham. After him are Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, William Justin Kroll, Wilhelm Bauer, Max Valier, André Blondel, and Marion Donovan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Henry Shrapnel ranks 32. Before him are Gottlob Ernst Schulze, William Gregor, Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg, Blasius Merrem, Dorothea Jordan, and Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Jacob Hübner, Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Ludwig Abeille, Samuel Dexter, John Moore, and Albert Gallatin. Among people deceased in 1842, Henry Shrapnel ranks 34. Before him are Thomas Arnold, Shah Shujah Durrani, Wilhelm Gesenius, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Leona Vicario, and Aleksey Koltsov. After him are James Ivory, Letitia Christian Tyler, William Ellery Channing, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Archibald Menzies, and Amos Eaton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Shrapnel ranks 3,012 out of 8,785. Before him are Andy Bell (1964), Richard Hooker (1554), John Winthrop (1588), Henry Raeburn (1756), George Graham (1673), and Ralph Copeland (1837). After him are Walter Map (1140), Alkmund of Derby (800), Alan Young (1919), Jonathan Nolan (1976), Michael Gothard (1939), and Brian Blessed (1936).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Henry Shrapnel ranks 51. Before him are Samuel Morland (1625), John Barnard (1946), Joseph Aspdin (1778), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Rowland Hill (1795), and George Graham (1673). After him are Alexander Bain (1810), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), John Wilkinson (1728), David Dunbar Buick (1854), Joseph Bramah (1748), and Robert Whitehead (1823).

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