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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 231,964 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Bramah is the 295th most popular inventor (down from 285th in 2019), the 3,044th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,864th in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 16

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  • 3.91

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  • 2.47

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Bramah ranks 295 out of 354Before him are Tabitha Babbitt, John Barnard, Walter Bruch, Bernard Lown, Almon Brown Strowger, and Kálmán Kandó. After him are Harry Ferguson, Henry M. Leland, Max Valier, Henry J. Kaiser, Whitcomb L. Judson, and David Dunbar Buick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Joseph Bramah ranks 24Before him are Anders Sparrman, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Timur Shah Durrani, Francesco Mario Pagano, and John Playfair. After him are Martha Jefferson, John Marshall, Asaf-ud-Daula, Charles Blagden, and William Few. Among people deceased in 1814, Joseph Bramah ranks 29Before him are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Johan Tobias Sergel, Charles Burney, Jean Reynier, and Évariste de Parny. After him are Andrey Voronikhin, August Wilhelm Iffland, Robert Treat Paine, Mercy Otis Warren, and Nicholas Gilman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Bramah ranks 3,044 out of 7,765Before him are Michael Oakeshott (1901), Christopher Eccleston (1964), Herbert Lawford (1851), Paul Day (1956), Martin Birch (1948), and Henry Cooper (1934). After him are Louis Tomlinson (1991), James Ivory (1765), Teddy Sheringham (1966), Kenneth MacMillan (1929), Phyllida Law (1932), and Reece James (1999).

Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Joseph Bramah ranks 48Before him are Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Joseph Aspdin (1778), John Wilkinson (1728), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), Rowland Hill (1795), and John Barnard (1946). After him are David Dunbar Buick (1854), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), William Friese-Greene (1855), Isaac Pitman (1813), Harry Brearley (1871), and Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835).