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Jacob Perkins

1766 - 1849

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Jacob Perkins (July 9, 1766 – July 30, 1849) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist based in the United Kingdom. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents.Sometimes known as the father of the refrigerator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Perkins has received more than 172,301 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Perkins is the 286th most popular inventor, the 5,186th most popular biography from United States and the 70th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jacob Perkins ranks 286 out of 426. Before him are Joseph Aspdin, Ralph Hartley, Prokop Diviš, George Devol, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, and Walter Zapp. After him are Nils Bohlin, Lester Allan Pelton, Kenjiro Takayanagi, Ivan Kulibin, Alexander P. de Seversky, and Alexandre Alexeieff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Jacob Perkins ranks 29. Before him are Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Joseph Weigl, John Leslie, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, and Joseph Franz von Jacquin. After him are Wilhelm Hisinger, Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, John Farey Sr., William Townsend Aiton, Benjamin Smith Barton, and Isaac D'Israeli. Among people deceased in 1849, Jacob Perkins ranks 52. Before him are Andrés Manuel del Río, Filippo Paulucci, François Habeneck, François Marius Granet, Mariano Paredes, and Marc Isambard Brunel. After him are Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte von Ahlefeld, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, José María Carreño, and Albert Gallatin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jacob Perkins ranks 5,186 out of 20,380. Before him are Brenda Strong (1960), Louis C.K. (1967), Elizabeth Wilson (1921), Jeff Conaway (1950), Troy Donahue (1936), and Richard Montague (1930). After him are LL Cool J (1968), Pat Smear (1959), Ralph Linton (1893), Charlie Wilson (1933), Sam J. Jones (1954), and Charley Chase (1893).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Jacob Perkins ranks 70. Before him are Cyrus McCormick (1809), Theodore Maiman (1927), Michael S. Hart (1947), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), Ralph Hartley (1888), and George Devol (1912). After him are Lester Allan Pelton (1829), Henry M. Leland (1843), Marion Donovan (1917), David Bushnell (1742), Dan Bricklin (1951), and Ken Olsen (1926).

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