INVENTOR

Sidney Gilchrist Thomas

1850 - 1885

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Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (16 April 1850 – 1 February 1885) was an English inventor, best known for his role in the iron and steel industry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sidney Gilchrist Thomas has received more than 47,185 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Sidney Gilchrist Thomas is the 284th most popular inventor (up from 304th in 2019), the 2,830th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,186th in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 47k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas ranks 284 out of 426. Before him are John Barnard, Whitcomb L. Judson, Joseph Aspdin, Ralph Hartley, Prokop Diviš, and George Devol. After him are Walter Zapp, Jacob Perkins, Nils Bohlin, Lester Allan Pelton, Kenjiro Takayanagi, and Ivan Kulibin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas ranks 77. Before him are Anton Seidl, Augusto Righi, Spencer Gore, Woldemar Voigt, Richard Heuberger, and George Huntington. After him are Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau, Francesco Tamagno, Victor Laloux, Zdenko Hans Skraup, Siri von Essen, and Gregory VII of Constantinople. Among people deceased in 1885, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas ranks 58. Before him are Prince Adolf of Auersperg, Schuyler Colfax, Georg Curtius, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, André Gill, and Prince August of Württemberg. After him are Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, Ludvig Norman, Justo Rufino Barrios, William Thoms, Ernest Goüin, and Ernst Falkbeer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas ranks 2,830 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Daniell (1894), Joe Fry (1915), Edmund Goulding (1891), Ian Hart (1964), Tommy Flanagan (1965), and Ernest Starling (1866). After him are Rebecca Clarke (1886), Mary Dyer (1611), Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough (1681), Matthew Vaughn (1971), Henry Salt (1780), and Nevil Shute (1899).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas ranks 48. Before him are Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Harry Brearley (1871), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Samuel Morland (1625), John Barnard (1946), and Joseph Aspdin (1778). After him are Rowland Hill (1795), George Graham (1673), Henry Shrapnel (1761), Alexander Bain (1810), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), and John Wilkinson (1728).

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