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Joseph Bramah

1748 - 1814

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Joseph Bramah (13 April 1748 – 9 December 1814) was an English inventor and locksmith. He is best known for having improved the flush toilet and inventing the hydraulic press. Along with William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, he can be considered one of the two fathers of hydraulic engineering. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Bramah is the 359th most popular inventor (down from 337th in 2019), the 4,262nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,699th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Bramah ranks 359 out of 426. Before him are Kazimierz Prószyński, John Fitch, Dan Bricklin, Per Georg Scheutz, Jay Miner, and Margaret E. Knight. After him are František Křižík, Phil Ramone, Orville Gibson, Andy Bechtolsheim, Norman Joseph Woodland, and Ken Olsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Joseph Bramah ranks 29. Before him are William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, John Playfair, Francesco Mario Pagano, Martha Jefferson, and Charles Blagden. After him are Christian Ehrenfried Weigel, Anne Seymour Damer, William Few, and Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch. Among people deceased in 1814, Joseph Bramah ranks 32. Before him are Charles Burney, Jean Reynier, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Robert Treat Paine, August Wilhelm Iffland, and Andrey Voronikhin. After him are Nicholas Gilman, Mercy Otis Warren, and Benjamin Williams.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Bramah ranks 4,263 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard D. Ryder (1940), Stephen Gardiner (1497), Edward Rutherfurd (1948), Spike Edney (1951), Ernest Dowson (1867), and Alan Ayckbourn (1939). After him are Johnny Marr (1963), Michael Frayn (1933), Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea (1810), Daisy Edgar-Jones (1998), Thomas Pennant (1726), and Roger of Wendover (1200).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Joseph Bramah ranks 59. Before him are Henry Shrapnel (1761), David Dunbar Buick (1854), William Fothergill Cooke (1806), John Wilkinson (1728), Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), and Thomas Wedgwood (1771). After him are John Milne (1850), Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847), Isaac Pitman (1813), Barnes Wallis (1887), William Friese-Greene (1855), and John Whitehurst (1713).

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