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Joseph Aspdin

1778 - 1855

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Joseph Aspdin (25 December 1778 – 20 March 1855) was an English bricklayer, businessman, inventor, and stonemason who obtained the patent for Portland cement on 21 October 1824. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Aspdin has received more than 177,552 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Joseph Aspdin is the 280th most popular inventor (down from 270th in 2019), the 2,769th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,551st in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Aspdin ranks 280 out of 426. Before him are Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, Theodore Maiman, Samuel Morland, Michael S. Hart, John Barnard, and Whitcomb L. Judson. After him are Ralph Hartley, Prokop Diviš, George Devol, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Walter Zapp, and Jacob Perkins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Joseph Aspdin ranks 35. Before him are Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Joseph Lancaster, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Carl Ludwig Koch, Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, and Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent. After him are William Hazlitt, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł, Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, Mariano Moreno, and Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. Among people deceased in 1855, Joseph Aspdin ranks 37. Before him are Louis-Mathieu Molé, Sergey Uvarov, Carl Anton von Meyer, Guglielmo Pepe, Sunthorn Phu, and Henri Braconnot. After him are Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Josef Munzinger, Henry Bishop, Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro, Mihály Pollack, and Fruto Chamorro.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Aspdin ranks 2,769 out of 8,785. Before him are Nancy Mackay (1922), Nicol Williamson (1936), Sigeberht of Wessex (750), Tom Hollander (1967), Joely Richardson (1965), and G. I. Taylor (1886). After him are Ceol of Wessex (600), Tony Brise (1952), William Hazlitt (1778), Andrew Smith (1797), Henry of Scotland (1115), and James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Joseph Aspdin ranks 47. Before him are Arthur Wynne (1871), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Harry Brearley (1871), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Samuel Morland (1625), and John Barnard (1946). After him are Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Rowland Hill (1795), George Graham (1673), Henry Shrapnel (1761), Alexander Bain (1810), and Thomas Wedgwood (1771).

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