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Joseph Monier

1823 - 1906

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Joseph Monier (French: [mɔnje]; 8 November 1823, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, France – 13 March 1906, Paris) was a French gardener and one of the principal inventors of reinforced concrete. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Monier has received more than 101,612 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joseph Monier is the 158th most popular inventor (up from 169th in 2019), the 2,007th most popular biography from France (up from 2,130th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Monier ranks 158 out of 354. Before him are Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Charles Algernon Parsons, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Sequoyah, Christopher Latham Sholes, and Paul Baran. After him are Uziel Gal, Charles Martin Hall, Guillaume Amontons, Orban, Robert Cailliau, and Edwin Howard Armstrong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Joseph Monier ranks 24. Before him are Charles I of Württemberg, Alexander Ostrovsky, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, John Russell Hind, Gotthold Eisenstein, and Konstantin Ushinsky. After him are Théodore de Banville, Jean Chacornac, Pyotr Lavrov, Ante Starčević, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, and Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev. Among people deceased in 1906, Joseph Monier ranks 19. Before him are Alexander Kielland, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Mihály Zichy, Bartolomé Mitre, Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, and Raja Ravi Varma. After him are Eugène Carrière, Paul Drude, Prince Albert of Prussia, Jules Breton, Ernesto Cesàro, and Princess Mathilde of Bavaria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Monier ranks 2,007 out of 6,011. Before him are Gaspard Ulliel (1984), Patrick Tambay (1949), Martine Carol (1920), Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807), Jean-Marc Ayrault (1950), and Legall de Kermeur (1702). After him are Fernand Cormon (1845), Guillaume Postel (1510), Jacques-François Blondel (1705), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Jean Maximilien Lamarque (1770), and Benedict Joseph Labre (1748).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Joseph Monier ranks 23. Before him are André Michelin (1853), Clément Ader (1841), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Henri Giffard (1825), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), and Louis Le Prince (1841). After him are Guillaume Amontons (1663), Charles Cros (1842), Georges Claude (1870), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Édouard Branly (1844), and Wan Hu (1510).

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