INVENTOR

Thomas Savery

1650 - 1715

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Thomas Savery (; c. 1650 – 15 May 1715) was an English inventor and engineer. He invented the first commercially used steam-powered device, a steam pump which is often referred to as the "Savery engine". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Savery has received more than 501,277 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Thomas Savery is the 81st most popular inventor (down from 73rd in 2019), the 625th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 567th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Inventor.

Thomas Savery is most famous for inventing the first commercially successful steam engine.

Memorability Metrics

  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Thomas Savery ranks 81 out of 426. Before him are Charles K. Kao, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Jacques de Vaucanson, Alois Senefelder, Ray Tomlinson, and Bi Sheng. After him are Sakichi Toyoda, Henry Bessemer, James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, Vladimir K. Zworykin, and Alexander Stepanovich Popov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1650, Thomas Savery ranks 3. Before him are William III of England, and John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. After him are Ahmad Khani, Jean Bart, Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Giovanni Battista Bassani, Frederick Casimir Kettler, Vincenzo Coronelli, Joachim Neander, Robert de Visée, and George Rooke. Among people deceased in 1715, Thomas Savery ranks 9. Before him are Gülnuş Sultan, François Fénelon, Dom Pérignon, Antoine Galland, Marie Mancini, and William Dampier. After him are Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Pu Songling, Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, François Girardon, Mirwais Hotak, and Pierre Magnol.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Savery ranks 625 out of 8,785. Before him are Tony Buzan (1942), Tilda Swinton (1960), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), Edgar Wallace (1875), Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532), and Chris Norman (1950). After him are John Newlands (1837), Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864), Alfonso de Portago (1928), Charles Laughton (1899), Willibrord (658), and William Shockley (1910).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Thomas Savery ranks 12. Before him are Richard Trevithick (1771), Frank Whittle (1907), John Logie Baird (1888), John Herschel (1792), John Boyd Dunlop (1840), and Henry Fox Talbot (1800). After him are Henry Bessemer (1813), James Hargreaves (1720), Richard Arkwright (1732), William Webb Ellis (1806), John Harrison (1693), and Edmund Cartwright (1743).

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