INVENTOR

Samuel Morland

1625 - 1695

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Sir Samuel Morland, 1st Baronet (1625 – 30 December 1695), or Moreland, was an English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century, a polymath credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Morland has received more than 80,817 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Morland is the 276th most popular inventor (down from 258th in 2019), the 2,699th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,301st in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 57.52

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Samuel Morland ranks 276 out of 426. Before him are Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Glenn Curtiss, Adolf Martens, Cyrus McCormick, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, and Theodore Maiman. After him are Michael S. Hart, John Barnard, Whitcomb L. Judson, Joseph Aspdin, Ralph Hartley, and Prokop Diviš.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1625, Samuel Morland ranks 17. Before him are François de Créquy, William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Jean Domat, Pierre Nicole, Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden, and Filippo Baldinucci. After him are Marie de Nemours, and Oliver Plunkett. Among people deceased in 1695, Samuel Morland ranks 18. Before him are Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Georg von Derfflinger, Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Huang Zongxi, and Pierre Nicole. After him are Christoph Arnold, Paul Hermann, and Henry Vaughan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Morland ranks 2,699 out of 8,785. Before him are Israel Zangwill (1864), Ron Atkinson (1939), Paul Davies (1946), Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871), Edward Colston (1636), and Eric Ambler (1909). After him are Jimmy Gardner (1924), Asser (900), Philip Jackson (1948), Benedict Wong (1971), Billy Boyd (1968), and Simon Callow (1949).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Samuel Morland ranks 45. Before him are Abraham Darby I (1678), James Nasmyth (1808), Arthur Wynne (1871), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Harry Brearley (1871), and Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833). After him are John Barnard (1946), Joseph Aspdin (1778), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Rowland Hill (1795), George Graham (1673), and Henry Shrapnel (1761).

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