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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 166,146 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Aspdin is the 270th most popular inventor (down from 251st in 2019), the 2,557th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,333rd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Aspdin ranks 270 out of 354Before him are Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Walter Clopton Wingfield, Robert Metcalfe, David Bushnell, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, and Peter Madsen. After him are Lester Allan Pelton, Adolf Martens, Alexander P. de Seversky, L. L. Langstroth, Edward Lawry Norton, and Štefan Banič.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Joseph Aspdin ranks 30Before him are Carl Ludvig Engel, Augustinos Kapodistrias, Sigismund von Neukomm, Joseph Lancaster, Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac. After him are Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Joseph Grimaldi, Carl Ludwig Koch, Mariano Moreno, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, and Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. Among people deceased in 1855, Joseph Aspdin ranks 29Before him are William Parry, Mihály Vörösmarty, Sergey Uvarov, Carl Anton von Meyer, Louis-Mathieu Molé, and Guglielmo Pepe. After him are Henri Druey, August Leopold Crelle, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Konstantin Batyushkov, Josef Munzinger, and Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Aspdin ranks 2,557 out of 7,765Before him are Edward Robert Hughes (1851), Belinda Lee (1935), John Illsley (1949), Jane Asher (1946), Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1869), and Alfred Tysoe (1874). After him are Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (1405), Gregory Winter (1951), Christian Horner (1973), Alexander Mackenzie (1822), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), and Sydney Chapman (1888).

Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Joseph Aspdin ranks 43Before him are James Dyson (1947), Joseph Whitworth (1803), Alexander Parkes (1813), Samuel Morland (1625), James Nasmyth (1808), and Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833). After him are John Wilkinson (1728), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), Rowland Hill (1795), John Barnard (1946), Joseph Bramah (1748), and David Dunbar Buick (1854).