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Joseph Whitworth

1803 - 1887

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Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet (21 December 1803 – 22 January 1887) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Whitworth has received more than 372,705 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Whitworth is the 251st most popular inventor (down from 241st in 2019), the 2,275th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,125th in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Whitworth ranks 251 out of 426. Before him are Frank Zamboni, Eugen Langen, Rodolphe Lindt, Aimo Lahti, Laurens Hammond, and Ottomar Anschütz. After him are Léon Gaumont, Fritz von Opel, Ricardo Wolf, Abraham Darby I, James Nasmyth, and Robert Cornelius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Joseph Whitworth ranks 47. Before him are C. L. Gloger, Eugène Isabey, Peter Chanel, Albert Sidney Johnston, Yevfimiy Putyatin, and Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Alexander Dukhnovych, Gustaaf Wappers, Juan Almonte, Bernardo Berro, Vladimir Odoyevsky, and Caroline Unger. Among people deceased in 1887, Joseph Whitworth ranks 27. Before him are Agostino Depretis, Hippolyte Bayard, Hans von Marées, William A. Wheeler, Julius von Haast, and Coenraad Johannes van Houten. After him are J. C. Jacobsen, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Louis Gallait, Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Otto Lesser, and Lysander Spooner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Whitworth ranks 2,275 out of 8,785. Before him are Lulu (1948), Nick Kamen (1962), Nassau William Senior (1790), Emerald Fennell (1985), Evelyn Colyer (1902), and Leo G. Carroll (1886). After him are Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (1867), Mick Fleetwood (1947), Sol Campbell (1974), James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1531), Andrew Birkin (1945), and Michael Halliday (1925).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Joseph Whitworth ranks 38. Before him are Oliver Lodge (1851), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Alexander Parkes (1813), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), Clive Sinclair (1940), and John Kemp Starley (1854). After him are Abraham Darby I (1678), James Nasmyth (1808), Arthur Wynne (1871), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Harry Brearley (1871), and Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833).

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