New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ENGINEER

Marc Seguin

1786 - 1875

Photo of Marc Seguin

Icon of person Marc Seguin

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 54,505 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Marc Seguin is the 158th most popular engineer (up from 175th in 2019), the 2,801st most popular biography from France (up from 2,837th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 55k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Marc Seguins by language


Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Marc Seguin ranks 158 out of 323. Before him are John Loudon McAdam, Alexander Mozhaysky, Georges Leclanché, Ivan Yarkovsky, Alec Issigonis, and Giuseppe Colombo. After him are John Bagot Glubb, Léon Charles Thévenin, Gérard Larrousse, Pierre-Émile Martin, Antoine de Chézy, and Anton Flettner.

Most Popular Engineers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Marc Seguin ranks 33. Before him are Justinus Kerner, Gregor MacGregor, Albrecht Adam, Nicolás Bravo, Agustina de Aragón, and Giovanni Battista Amici. After him are Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Joachim Lelewel, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Sergey Uvarov, and William R. King. Among people deceased in 1875, Marc Seguin ranks 42. Before him are Henry Wilson, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, Antoine-Louis Barye, Eugène Schneider, Edgar Quinet, and January Suchodolski. After him are John C. Breckinridge, Charles Elliot, Louise Farrenc, Georg Herwegh, Prosper Guéranger, and Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.

Others Born in 1786

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1875

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In France

Among people born in France, Marc Seguin ranks 2,801 out of 6,011. Before him are Robert Casadesus (1899), François-Henri Pinault (1962), Albert Girard (1595), John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (1638), Bernadette Chirac (1933), and Benjamin Godard (1849). After him are Louis, Duke of Guyenne (1397), Robert Cambert (1628), David Kimhi (1160), Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1722), Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma (1933), and Daniel Gélin (1921).

Others born in France

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Marc Seguin ranks 20. Before him are Alexandre Darracq (1855), Pierre Berthier (1782), Philippe LeBon (1767), Gabriel Voisin (1880), Jorge Chávez (1887), and Georges Leclanché (1836). After him are Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), Gérard Larrousse (1940), Pierre-Émile Martin (1824), Antoine de Chézy (1718), Louis Charles Breguet (1880), and Émile Levassor (1843).

French born Engineers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL