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James Hargreaves

1720 - 1778

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James Hargreaves (c. 1720 – 22 April 1778) was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor who lived and worked in Lancashire, England. Hargreaves is credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Hargreaves has received more than 491,741 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. James Hargreaves is the 77th most popular inventor (up from 94th in 2019), the 613th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 729th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Inventor.

James Hargreaves is most famous for inventing the spinning jenny.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.46

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  • 2.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, James Hargreaves ranks 77 out of 354. Before him are Oleg Antonov, Jacques Piccard, Thomas Savery, Richard Arkwright, Kōnosuke Matsushita, and Alexander Stepanovich Popov. After him are André-Jacques Garnerin, Claude Chappe, Henry Bessemer, Momofuku Ando, Ray Tomlinson, and Sakichi Toyoda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, James Hargreaves ranks 7. Before him are Baron Munchausen, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Charles Edward Stuart, Anna Maria Mozart, Philip, Duke of Parma, and Carlo Gozzi. After him are Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Emperor Sakuramachi, Vilna Gaon, Charles Bonnet, Heraclius II of Georgia, and Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. Among people deceased in 1778, James Hargreaves ranks 7. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Carl Linnaeus, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Anna Maria Mozart, and Laura Bassi. After him are Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Thomas Arne, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo, and Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Hargreaves ranks 613 out of 7,765. Before him are Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388), William Dampier (1651), John Flamsteed (1646), Henry the Young King (1155), John Rhys-Davies (1944), and William Wilberforce (1759). After him are Douglas Adams (1952), Jonathan Pryce (1947), Tilda Swinton (1960), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), John Buchan (1875), and Offa of Mercia (800).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, James Hargreaves ranks 14. Before him are John Herschel (1792), John Boyd Dunlop (1840), Frank Whittle (1907), Henry Fox Talbot (1800), Thomas Savery (1650), and Richard Arkwright (1732). After him are Henry Bessemer (1813), John Harrison (1693), Edmund Cartwright (1743), W. O. Bentley (1888), William Webb Ellis (1806), and Samuel Crompton (1753).

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