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Isaac Pitman

1813 - 1897

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Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 22 January 1897) was an English publisher and teacher of the English language who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. He was vice-president of the Vegetarian Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaac Pitman has received more than 212,959 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Isaac Pitman is the 362nd most popular inventor (down from 310th in 2019), the 4,170th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,376th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Isaac Pitman ranks 362 out of 426. Before him are Almon Brown Strowger, Kazimierz Prószyński, František Křižík, George Stibitz, John Milne, and Elizabeth Holmes. After him are Johan Vaaler, Andy Bechtolsheim, Amar Bose, William Friese-Greene, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Kirkpatrick Macmillan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Isaac Pitman ranks 73. Before him are Félix María Zuloaga, Gennady Nevelskoy, Theodor Kotschy, Gaëtan de Rochebouët, Narciso Campero, and Timofey Granovsky. After him are Stephen Mallory, Radhanath Sikdar, Henry Ward Beecher, Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, John Rae, and John Sedgwick. Among people deceased in 1897, Isaac Pitman ranks 74. Before him are Harriet Jacobs, Charles Blondin, Léon Gautier, Lea Ahlborn, Francesco Brioschi, and Juan Idiarte Borda. After him are Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Jules de Burlet, Edward Newton, Berthold Englisch, and Margaret Oliphant.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Isaac Pitman ranks 4,170 out of 8,785. Before him are John Gardner Wilkinson (1797), John Foxx (1948), Herbert Ponting (1870), Myra Hess (1890), Gavin Harrison (1963), and Elizabeth Montagu (1718). After him are Sebastian Cabot (1918), Edward Rutherfurd (1948), Peter Osgood (1947), Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith (1883), Margaret Leighton (1922), and Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1914).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Isaac Pitman ranks 59. Before him are Thomas Wedgwood (1771), John Wilkinson (1728), David Dunbar Buick (1854), Joseph Bramah (1748), Robert Whitehead (1823), and John Milne (1850). After him are William Friese-Greene (1855), Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), William Fothergill Cooke (1806), Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847), Barnes Wallis (1887), and John Whitehurst (1713).

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