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Marc Seguin

1786 - 1875

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Marc Seguin (20 April 1786 – 24 February 1875) was a French engineer, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge and the multi-tubular steam-engine boiler. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marc Seguin has received more than 59,059 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Marc Seguin is the 161st most popular engineer (down from 156th in 2019), the 2,961st most popular biography from France (down from 2,792nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Engineer.

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  • 59k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Marc Seguin ranks 161 out of 389. Before him are Léon Charles Thévenin, Henryk Dembiński, Gérard Larrousse, Philippe LeBon, Anton Flettner, and Hanns Hörbiger. After him are John Loudon McAdam, John Smeaton, Antoine de Chézy, Sherif Ismail, Vitaly Abalakov, and Menno van Coehoorn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Marc Seguin ranks 30. Before him are Gaspar del Bufalo, Winfield Scott, Giovanni Battista Amici, Nicolás Bravo, Joachim Lelewel, and Justinus Kerner. After him are Agustina de Aragón, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Sergey Uvarov, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, and Gregor MacGregor. Among people deceased in 1875, Marc Seguin ranks 42. Before him are Henry Wilson, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, January Suchodolski, Louise Farrenc, Georg Herwegh, and Eugène Schneider. After him are Charles Elliot, Charles Kingsley, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, John C. Breckinridge, Prosper Guéranger, and Princess Alexandra of Bavaria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marc Seguin ranks 2,961 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Guitton (1901), Marcel L'Herbier (1888), Pierre Barouh (1934), Alexandre Deschapelles (1780), Wilhelm Falley (1897), and Auguste Clésinger (1814). After him are Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Champfleury (1821), N'Golo Kanté (1991), René Lesson (1794), Nicolas Coustou (1658), and Paul Émile Appell (1855).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Marc Seguin ranks 23. Before him are Pierre-Émile Martin (1824), Gabriel Voisin (1880), Adolphe Alphand (1817), Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), Gérard Larrousse (1940), and Philippe LeBon (1767). After him are Antoine de Chézy (1718), Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), Louis Charles Breguet (1880), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Michel Chevalier (1806), and Jorge Chávez (1887).

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