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William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong

1810 - 1900

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William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong has received more than 604,866 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong is the 294th most popular engineer (down from 280th in 2019), the 3,730th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,779th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 294 out of 389. Before him are Donald Wills Douglas Sr., Peter Chen, Pavel Solovyov, Friedrich L. Bauer, Pat Symonds, and Robert Esnault-Pelterie. After him are K. Eric Drexler, Hesham Qandil, Peter Schreyer, Yaakov Ziv, Mal Evans, and Franciszek Rychnowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 81. Before him are Baron Ignaz von Plener, Paul Kane, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Johan August Wahlberg, Louis Fraser, and Little Crow. After him are José María de Achá, Johanna Kinkel, Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, Carl Mayet, Nicolae Golescu, and Ernestine Rose. Among people deceased in 1900, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 85. Before him are Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Albert Bernhard Frank, Hannibal Goodwin, John Anderson, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, and Victoire Léodile Béra. After him are Charles Piazzi Smyth, Nicolae Crețulescu, József Szlávy, Ernest Dowson, William Stanley Haseltine, and Tomás Gomensoro Albín.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 3,730 out of 8,785. Before him are Tim McInnerny (1956), Helen Shapiro (1946), Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783), James Steuart (1712), Barbara Windsor (1937), and Winifred McNair (1877). After him are Joseph Thomson (1858), William Thomas Blanford (1832), Eliza Acton (1799), Captain Tom (1920), George Finlay (1799), and Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel (1557).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 28. Before him are Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), James B. Francis (1815), William Froude (1810), Robert W. Paul (1869), and Pat Symonds (1953). After him are Mal Evans (1935), Isaac Roberts (1829), Ron Tauranac (1925), Jesse Ramsden (1735), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), and Ove Arup (1895).

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