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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 352,670 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Joseph Whitworth is the 241st most popular inventor (down from 210th in 2019), the 2,130th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,881st in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Whitworth ranks 241 out of 354. Before him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Eugen Langen, Fritz von Opel, Léon Gaumont, David Schwarz, and James Dyson. After him are Alexander Parkes, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Theodore Maiman, Glenn Curtiss, Ray Dolby, and Frank Zamboni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Joseph Whitworth ranks 41. Before him are Alexander von Nordmann, Franz Lachner, Ludwig Richter, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, and Peter Chanel. After him are Eugène Isabey, Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Albert Sidney Johnston, Gustaaf Wappers, Juan Almonte, and Vladimir Odoyevsky. Among people deceased in 1887, Joseph Whitworth ranks 25. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, William A. Wheeler, Agostino Depretis, and Hans von Marées. After him are J. C. Jacobsen, Moritz Wagner, Emma Lazarus, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, August Friedrich Pott, and Lysander Spooner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Whitworth ranks 2,130 out of 7,765. Before him are Eadgifu of Wessex (null), Trevor Horn (1949), Edwin Arnold (1832), George Arliss (1868), Hugh Despenser the younger (1287), and Ephraim Chambers (1680). After him are Stephen Dillane (1957), Thomas Kyd (1558), John Vanbrugh (1664), Lottie Dod (1871), Maurice Evans (1901), and John Bull (1562).

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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), Henry Maudslay (1771), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Elihu Thomson (1853), and James Dyson (1947). After him are Alexander Parkes (1813), Samuel Morland (1625), James Nasmyth (1808), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Joseph Aspdin (1778), and John Wilkinson (1728).

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