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Johann Jacob Schweppe

1740 - 1821

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Johann Jacob Schweppe ( SHVEP-ə, German: [ˈjoːhan ˈjaːkɔp ˈʃvɛpə]; 16 March 1740 – 18 November 1821) was a German watchmaker and amateur scientist who developed the first practical process to manufacture bottled carbonated mineral water and began selling the world's first bottled soft drink, His company, Schweppes, regards Priestley as "the father of our industry". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Jacob Schweppe is the 188th most popular inventor (down from 122nd in 2019), the 2,341st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,338th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Johann Jacob Schweppe ranks 188 out of 426. Before her are Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Gunther von Hagens, William Murdoch, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Fausto Veranzio, and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff. After her are Arnold Orville Beckman, Lucien Olivier, Larry Sanger, Sequoyah, Johann Christoph Denner, and George de Mestral.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Johann Jacob Schweppe ranks 16. Before her are Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, John Sullivan, Giambattista Bodoni, and John Latham. After her are Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, Anders Johan Lexell, James Boswell, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, and Matthias Claudius. Among people deceased in 1821, Johann Jacob Schweppe ranks 12. Before her are Franz Karl Achard, John William Polidori, William I, Elector of Hesse, Gregory V of Constantinople, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Tudor Vladimirescu. After her are Louis Claude Richard, Jean Rapp, Johann Peter Frank, Constance Mayer, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, and Athanasios Diakos.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Jacob Schweppe ranks 2,342 out of 7,253. Before her are F. C. S. Schiller (1864), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (1767), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), and Heinrich Eberbach (1895). After her are Erich Mühsam (1878), Johannes Schöner (1477), Antonio Rüdiger (1993), Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Anna of Brandenburg (1487), and Judith Kerr (1923).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Johann Jacob Schweppe ranks 27. Before her are Heinrich Göbel (1818), Uziel Gal (1923), Henrich Focke (1890), Artur Fischer (1919), Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803). After her are Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Oskar Barnack (1879), and Fritz von Opel (1899).

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