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Robert Whitehead

1823 - 1905

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Robert Whitehead (3 January 1823 – 14 November 1905) was an English engineer who was most famous for developing the first effective self-propelled naval torpedo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Whitehead has received more than 218,432 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Whitehead is the 351st most popular inventor, the 4,012th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 57th most popular British Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Whitehead ranks 351 out of 426. Before him are Didi Senft, Joy Mangano, Albrecht Berblinger, John Fitch, Oliver Evans, and Charles Darrow. After him are Jerry Lawson, Frank J. Sprague, Edward Craven Walker, Peter Madsen, Almon Brown Strowger, and Kazimierz Prószyński.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Robert Whitehead ranks 72. Before him are Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Joseph Leidy, Dmitry Tolstoy, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, William M. Tweed, and Spencer Fullerton Baird. After him are Guillermo Tell Villegas, Henry Wirz, Manolache Costache Epureanu, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Mackenzie Bowell, and Coventry Patmore. Among people deceased in 1905, Robert Whitehead ranks 88. Before him are Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, Étienne Desmarteau, Lev Lagorio, Gyula Szapáry, Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde, and Mabel Cahill. After him are Enoch Sontonga, William Muir, Alexander Melville Bell, Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl, Lizardo Montero Flores, and Vjenceslav Novak.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Whitehead ranks 4,012 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary Garden (1874), William Robertson (1721), Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby (1841), David Cross (1949), Roy Bentley (1924), and Ivor Allchurch (1929). After him are David Beaton (1494), Aaron Ramsey (1990), Michael Ruse (1940), Rick Allen (1963), Alfred Maudslay (1850), and Charles Wilkins (1749).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Robert Whitehead ranks 57. Before him are Henry Shrapnel (1761), Alexander Bain (1810), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), John Wilkinson (1728), David Dunbar Buick (1854), and Joseph Bramah (1748). After him are John Milne (1850), Isaac Pitman (1813), William Friese-Greene (1855), Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), William Fothergill Cooke (1806), and Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847).

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