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Sandford Fleming

1827 - 1915

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Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of Coordinated Universal Time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sandford Fleming has received more than 1,197,995 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Sandford Fleming is the 186th most popular inventor (up from 191st in 2019), the 1,615th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,649th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 61.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Sandford Fleming ranks 186 out of 426. Before him are Georges Claude, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Charles Martin Hall, Larry Sanger, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, and George de Mestral. After him are Traian Vuia, Johann Christoph Denner, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Ottaviano Petrucci, Jethro Tull, and Orban.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Sandford Fleming ranks 28. Before him are Mihály Zichy, Henry Gray, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria, Lew Wallace, and Goffredo Mameli. After him are Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, Nikolai Severtzov, Paul de Lagarde, Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland, and George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon. Among people deceased in 1915, Sandford Fleming ranks 41. Before him are Hans Gross, Theodor Leschetizky, Vazha-Pshavela, Mubarak Al-Sabah, Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, and François Faber. After him are Anatoly Stessel, Friedrich Loeffler, Nagakura Shinpachi, Danilo Ilić, Akaki Tsereteli, and Carlos Finlay.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sandford Fleming ranks 1,615 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693), John Canton (1718), John Nelson Darby (1800), Alf Ramsey (1920), Matthew Flinders (1774), and Leonard Woolley (1880). After him are Paul Scofield (1922), Lynn Redgrave (1943), Bernie Taupin (1950), Jeremiah Horrocks (1618), Neil Tennant (1954), and Michael Anderson (1920).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Sandford Fleming ranks 28. Before him are Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Robert Stirling (1790), William Murdoch (1754), Elihu Thomson (1853), Matthew Boulton (1728), and James Dyson (1947). After him are Jethro Tull (1674), David Edward Hughes (1831), Henry Maudslay (1771), Oliver Lodge (1851), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), and Alexander Parkes (1813).

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