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Jethro Tull

1674 - 1741

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Jethro Tull (baptised 30 March 1674 – 21 February 1741, New Style) was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who helped to bring about the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and later developed a horse-drawn hoe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jethro Tull has received more than 289,738 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Jethro Tull is the 191st most popular inventor (down from 147th in 2019), the 1,660th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,246th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jethro Tull ranks 191 out of 426. Before him are George de Mestral, Sandford Fleming, Traian Vuia, Johann Christoph Denner, Samuel Pierpont Langley, and Ottaviano Petrucci. After him are Orban, Christopher Latham Sholes, Charles Xavier Thomas, David Edward Hughes, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and Oskar Barnack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1674, Jethro Tull ranks 4. Before him are Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and Ibrahim Muteferrika. After him are Reinhard Keiser, Jeremiah Clarke, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, Marie of Lorraine, Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, and Isaac Watts. Among people deceased in 1741, Jethro Tull ranks 13. Before him are Wirich Philipp von Daun, Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Bernard de Montfaucon, and Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano. After him are Blas de Lezo, Georg Rafael Donner, Alvise Pisani, Charles Rollin, Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, and Johann Amman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jethro Tull ranks 1,660 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), E. P. Thompson (1924), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Eileen Atkins (1934), David Ogilvy (1911), and Margaret Bondfield (1873). After him are William Hamilton (1730), Greer Garson (1904), Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886), John Latham (1740), Gemma Jones (1942), and Thomas Rowlandson (1756).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Jethro Tull ranks 29. Before him are Robert Stirling (1790), William Murdoch (1754), Elihu Thomson (1853), Matthew Boulton (1728), James Dyson (1947), and Sandford Fleming (1827). After him are David Edward Hughes (1831), Henry Maudslay (1771), Oliver Lodge (1851), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Alexander Parkes (1813), and Hubert Cecil Booth (1871).

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