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Cornelis Drebbel

1572 - 1633

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Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔrˈneːlɪ ˈɕaːkɔpsoːn ˈdrɛbəl]; 1572 – 7 November 1633) was a Dutch engineer and inventor. He was the builder of the first operational submarine in 1620 and an innovator who contributed to the development of measurement and control systems, optics and chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cornelis Drebbel is the 143rd most popular inventor (down from 64th in 2019), the 247th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 88th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Inventor.

Cornelis Drebbel is most famous for inventing the first working submarine in 1620.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Cornelis Drebbel ranks 143 out of 426. Before him are Zénobe Gramme, Elias Howe, Mary the Jewess, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Taiichi Ohno, and Louis Le Prince. After him are John Kay, Robert Stirling, Peter Cooper, Siegfried Marcus, Richard Jordan Gatling, and Robert Cailliau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1572, Cornelis Drebbel ranks 9. Before him are John Donne, Ben Jonson, Sigismund Báthory, Jane Frances de Chantal, Susenyos I, and Izumo no Okuni. After him are Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Francis II, Duke of Lorraine, Marie Elisabeth of France, Cyril Lucaris, Fakhr al-Din II, and Thomas Dekker. Among people deceased in 1633, Cornelis Drebbel ranks 6. Before him are Jacopo Peri, Isabella Clara Eugenia, Scipione Borghese, Pieter Lastman, and Xu Guangqi. After him are Patriarch Filaret of Moscow, Catherine of Cleves, Lew Sapieha, Sigrid of Sweden, Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, and George Herbert.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Cornelis Drebbel ranks 247 out of 1,646. Before him are Pieter Boddaert (1730), Princess Sophie of the Netherlands (1824), Jan Peter Balkenende (1956), Gemma Frisius (1508), George Blake (1922), and Alexandrine Tinné (1835). After him are Wim Suurbier (1945), Piet Pieterszoon Hein (1577), Johann Weyer (1515), Nicolaes Maes (1634), Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527), and Frans de Waal (1948).

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Among INVENTORS In Netherlands

Among inventors born in Netherlands, Cornelis Drebbel ranks 1. After him are Zacharias Janssen (1585), Lou Ottens (1926), and Boyan Slat (1994).

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