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John Milne

1850 - 1913

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John Milne (30 December 1850 – 31 July 1913) was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Milne has received more than 98,236 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Milne is the 360th most popular inventor, the 4,152nd most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 58th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, John Milne ranks 360 out of 426Before him are Edward Craven Walker, Peter Madsen, Almon Brown Strowger, Kazimierz Prószyński, František Křižík, and George Stibitz. After him are Elizabeth Holmes, Isaac Pitman, Johan Vaaler, Andy Bechtolsheim, Amar Bose, and William Friese-Greene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, John Milne ranks 104Before him are Franziskus von Bettinger, Alfred Maudslay, Hermann Möller, Eduard Sievers, Jane Ellen Harrison, and Robert Ridgway. After him are Guerra Junqueiro, William H. Welch, Hans von Pechmann, Daniel Chester French, Nikolai Golitsyn, and Jørgen Pedersen Gram. Among people deceased in 1913, John Milne ranks 84Before him are Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, Miroslav Kraljević, Paul de Smet de Naeyer, Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Gregorio María Aguirre y García, and Elena Guro. After him are Frederick Rolfe, Anthimus VII of Constantinople, Emma Schenson, Frederick Holman, George Finnegan, and Alphonse Kirchhoffer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Milne ranks 4,152 out of 8,785Before him are Herbert Baddeley (1872), Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), Mike Summerbee (1942), Thomas Phillips (1770), Daphne Oram (1925), and John Marston (1576). After him are Steve Bruce (1960), William John Swainson (1789), Roger of Wendover (1200), George Clausen (1852), Samuel Palmer (1805), and Dolly Pentreath (1692).

Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, John Milne ranks 58Before him are Alexander Bain (1810), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), John Wilkinson (1728), David Dunbar Buick (1854), Joseph Bramah (1748), and Robert Whitehead (1823). After him are Isaac Pitman (1813), William Friese-Greene (1855), Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), William Fothergill Cooke (1806), Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847), and Barnes Wallis (1887).