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John Milne

1850 - 1913

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John Milne (30 December 1850 – 31 July 1913) was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Milne is the 375th most popular inventor (down from 360th in 2019), the 4,637th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,152nd in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, John Milne ranks 375 out of 426. Before him are Andrew Viterbi, Karl Jatho, Edward Craven Walker, Harry Ferguson, Tabitha Babbitt, and Patricia Bath. After him are Henry J. Kaiser, Robert S. Langer, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Charles Darrow, Frank Piasecki, and Isaac Pitman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, John Milne ranks 111. Before him are Heinrich Peters, Guerra Junqueiro, Jean de Reszke, Alfred Maudslay, Daniel Chester French, and Franciszek Rychnowski. After him are William H. Welch, Yelena Polenova, Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau, Hans von Pechmann, Georg Naue, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Among people deceased in 1913, John Milne ranks 88. Before him are Leonid Sobolev, Gregorio María Aguirre y García, Miroslav Kraljević, George Finnegan, Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, and Elena Guro. After him are Mathilde Marchesi, Emma Schenson, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, Alphonse Kirchhoffer, Frederick Rolfe, and Daniel David Palmer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Milne ranks 4,638 out of 8,785. Before him are James Frain (1968), Yvonne Blake (1940), Charles Allston Collins (1828), George Back (1796), Amina J. Mohammed (1961), and Phyllis Johnson (1886). After him are David Brabham (1965), Jayne Atkinson (1959), John André (1750), Bill Hoskyns (1931), Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858), and Indira Varma (1973).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, John Milne ranks 60. Before him are David Dunbar Buick (1854), William Fothergill Cooke (1806), John Wilkinson (1728), Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), and Joseph Bramah (1748). After him are Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847), Isaac Pitman (1813), Barnes Wallis (1887), William Friese-Greene (1855), John Whitehurst (1713), and Roger C. Field (1945).

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