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Harry Brearley

1871 - 1948

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Harry Brearley (18 February 1871 – 14 July 1948) was an English metallurgist, credited with the invention of "rustless steel" (later to be called "stainless steel" in the anglophone world). Based in Sheffield, his invention brought affordable cutlery to the masses, and saw an expansion of the city's traditional cutlery trade. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Brearley is the 336th most popular inventor (down from 264th in 2019), the 3,869th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,556th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Harry Brearley ranks 336 out of 426. Before him are Hannibal Goodwin, An Wang, Victor Hasselblad, John Philip Holland, Joseph Engelberger, and Roland Moreno. After him are Heinrich Gerber, André Blondel, Henry Shrapnel, Edward Lawry Norton, David Dunbar Buick, and William Fothergill Cooke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Harry Brearley ranks 136. Before him are Grafton Elliot Smith, Jacob Ellehammer, Dun Karm Psaila, Giovanni Giorgi, Sevasti Qiriazi, and Frantz Reichel. After him are Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Reginald Aldworth Daly, Louis Perrée, Robert Hugh Benson, Joaquín Chapaprieta, and Manuel Franco. Among people deceased in 1948, Harry Brearley ranks 157. Before him are Constantin Angelescu, Manuel Arce y Ochotorena, Zhu Ziqing, Mickey Marcus, Dale Fuller, and D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. After him are Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, Pencho Zlatev, Georg Kulenkampff, Charles A. Beard, Carl Hårleman, and Malcolm Campbell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harry Brearley ranks 3,870 out of 8,785. Before him are William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843), Alex Garland (1970), William Sherard (1659), Susan George (1950), Michael Carrick (1981), and E. A. Wallis Budge (1857). After him are Charles Howard Hinton (1853), Lance Macklin (1919), George Nares (1831), Richard Leach Maddox (1816), Herbert Marshall (1890), and Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Harry Brearley ranks 52. Before him are Joseph Aspdin (1778), Joseph Whitworth (1803), Samuel Morland (1625), George Graham (1673), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), and Abraham Darby I (1678). After him are Henry Shrapnel (1761), David Dunbar Buick (1854), William Fothergill Cooke (1806), John Wilkinson (1728), Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), and Thomas Wedgwood (1771).

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