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Joseph Bramah

1748 - 1814

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Joseph Bramah (13 April 1748 – 9 December 1814) was an English inventor and locksmith. He is best known for having improved the flush toilet and inventing the hydraulic press. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Bramah has received more than 246,888 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Bramah is the 337th most popular inventor (down from 295th in 2019), the 3,698th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,036th in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Bramah ranks 337 out of 426. Before him are Hannibal Goodwin, Beulah Louise Henry, Phil Ramone, Henri Fabre, Giovanni Caselli, and David Dunbar Buick. After him are Georges Beuchat, An Wang, Jozef Murgaš, Joseph Timchenko, John Philip Holland, and George Washington Gale Ferris Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Joseph Bramah ranks 29. Before him are Martha Jefferson, Francesco Mario Pagano, Anne Seymour Damer, Timur Shah Durrani, Charles Blagden, and John Marshall. After him are Asaf-ud-Daula, Christian Ehrenfried Weigel, Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, and William Few. Among people deceased in 1814, Joseph Bramah ranks 31. Before him are Charles Burney, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Évariste de Parny, Jean Reynier, August Wilhelm Iffland, and Andrey Voronikhin. After him are Robert Treat Paine, Nicholas Gilman, Mercy Otis Warren, and Benjamin Williams.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Bramah ranks 3,698 out of 8,785. Before him are Calvin Harris (1984), Isabella Beeton (1836), John Lyons (1932), Bob Houghton (1947), Tony Benn (1925), and Michael Hirst (1952). After him are Howard Donald (1968), Joyce Mansour (1928), Mark Fisher (1968), Frances Yates (1899), John Gower (1330), and Freddie Francis (1917).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Joseph Bramah ranks 56. Before him are George Graham (1673), Henry Shrapnel (1761), Alexander Bain (1810), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), John Wilkinson (1728), and David Dunbar Buick (1854). After him are Robert Whitehead (1823), John Milne (1850), Isaac Pitman (1813), William Friese-Greene (1855), Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), and William Fothergill Cooke (1806).

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