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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 73,713 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Samuel Morland is the 258th most popular inventor (down from 218th in 2019), the 2,307th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,976th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 51.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Samuel Morland ranks 258 out of 354. Before him are Aurel Stodola, Eunice Newton Foote, Colin Archer, Pavel Yablochkov, Ernst Alexanderson, and Tivadar Puskás. After him are Cyrus McCormick, Vittorio Jano, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, James Nasmyth, Michael S. Hart, and Joseph-Armand Bombardier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1625, Samuel Morland ranks 11. Before him are John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg, Carlo Maratta, Erik Dahlbergh, Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern, François de Créquy, and Gregorio Barbarigo. After him are Pierre Nicole, Thomas Corneille, Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden, William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Filippo Baldinucci, and Oliver Plunkett. Among people deceased in 1695, Samuel Morland ranks 14. Before him are Pierre Mignard, Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Thomas Tew, Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, and Melchior d'Hondecoeter. After him are Pierre Nicole, Huang Zongxi, Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Christoph Arnold, Paul Hermann, and Henry Vaughan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Morland ranks 2,307 out of 7,765. Before him are Paul Smith (1946), Richard Madden (1986), Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215), Lindsay Kemp (1938), Eric Temple Bell (1883), and Carl Palmer (1950). After him are Würzel (1949), Caradoc (470), Bob Klose (1945), Frank Finlay (1926), Jamie Vardy (1987), and Charles Kingsley (1819).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Samuel Morland ranks 40. Before him are Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Elihu Thomson (1853), James Dyson (1947), Joseph Whitworth (1803), and Alexander Parkes (1813). After him are James Nasmyth (1808), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Joseph Aspdin (1778), John Wilkinson (1728), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), and Rowland Hill (1795).

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