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Johann Jacob Schweppe

1740 - 1821

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Johann Jacob Schweppe ( SHVEP-ə, German: [ˈjoːhan ˈjaːkɔp ˈʃvɛpə]; 16 March 1740 – 18 November 1821) was a German watchmaker and amateur scientist who developed the first practical process to manufacture bottled carbonated mineral water and began selling the world's first bottled soft drink, His company, Schweppes, regards Priestley as "the father of our industry". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Jacob Schweppe has received more than 229,096 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Jacob Schweppe is the 122nd most popular inventor (up from 137th in 2019), the 1,338th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,541st in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Johann Jacob Schweppe ranks 122 out of 426. Before her are Josiah Warren, André Michelin, Hiram Maxim, Theobald Boehm, Percy Spencer, and Josef Ressel. After her are Henri Giffard, Taiichi Ohno, Nikolai Kardashev, Hugo Schmeisser, Samuel Crompton, and Mary Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Johann Jacob Schweppe ranks 9. Before her are Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, Isabelle de Charrière, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Jeanne Baret, and Johann van Beethoven. After her are Carl Michael Bellman, Giambattista Bodoni, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, and James Boswell. Among people deceased in 1821, Johann Jacob Schweppe ranks 8. Before her are John Keats, Joseph de Maistre, Caroline of Brunswick, John William Polidori, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, and Franz Karl Achard. After her are William I, Elector of Hesse, Tudor Vladimirescu, Gregory V of Constantinople, Jean Rapp, Johann Peter Frank, and Louis Claude Richard.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Jacob Schweppe ranks 1,338 out of 7,253. Before her are Henry of Latvia (1187), Anna Maria of the Palatinate (1561), Sepp Piontek (1940), Christoph Cellarius (1638), Andreas Libavius (1555), and Lucius Antonius Saturninus (20). After her are Karl Löwith (1897), Fritz Bayerlein (1899), Fancy (1946), Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1877), Otto II, Duke of Bavaria (1206), and Ludwig Prandtl (1875).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Johann Jacob Schweppe ranks 16. Before her are Emile Berliner (1851), Adam Opel (1837), Joseph Pilates (1883), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Alfred Krupp (1812), and Theobald Boehm (1794). After her are Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Uziel Gal (1923), Peter Henlein (1479), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), and Siegfried Marcus (1831).

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