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Léon Serpollet

1858 - 1907

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Léon Serpollet (4 October 1858 – 1 February 1907) was a French engineer and developer of flash steam boilers and steam automobiles. Léon Serpollet was born in Culoz, in the Ain department of France in 1859, son of the carpenter Auguste Serpollet. He went into the family business with his brother Henri (1848–1915) producing circular saws and wood working machines. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Serpollet has received more than 42,072 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Serpollet is the 223rd most popular engineer, the 3,679th most popular biography from France and the 40th most popular French Engineer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Léon Serpollet ranks 223 out of 389. Before him are Charles F. Brush, Ma Jun, Georgy Beriev, Seymour Cray, Ed Heinemann, and Eugène Belgrand. After him are Kenneth Nichols, Charles Renard, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, Frederick W. Lanchester, Johann Georg Halske, and Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Léon Serpollet ranks 89. Before him are Richard Bergh, Wilhelm Fliess, Hans Meyer, Edmond Aman-Jean, José Miguel Gómez, and Helen Churchill Candee. After him are Agnes Baden-Powell, Constance Lloyd, Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, Georgi Todorov, Alexandre Michon, and Heinrich Zille. Among people deceased in 1907, Léon Serpollet ranks 64. Before him are Lucile Grahn, Moritz Steinschneider, Prince Arnulf of Bavaria, Maurice Loewy, Ernst von Bergmann, and Bernhard Hammer. After him are Ludwig Thuille, Alfred Newton, William Howard Russell, Luis Sáenz Peña, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Serpollet ranks 3,679 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Duclerc (1812), Eugène Belgrand (1810), René Huyghe (1906), Félix Tisserand (1845), Georges Urbain (1872), and Étienne Mattler (1905). After him are Adolphe Grisel (1872), Jean-Pierre Ricard (1944), Jean François de Saint-Lambert (1716), Albert Aurier (1865), Georges Leygues (1857), and Christiane Rochefort (1917).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Léon Serpollet ranks 40. Before him are Arthur Morin (1795), Benoît Fourneyron (1802), François Hennebique (1842), Émile Lemoine (1840), Louis Dollo (1857), and Eugène Belgrand (1810). After him are Charles Renard (1847), Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), René Panhard (1841), and Eugène Flachat (1802).

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