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Joseph Whitworth

1803 - 1887

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Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet (21 December 1803 – 22 January 1887) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads. Whitworth also created the Whitworth rifle, often called the "sharpshooter" because of its accuracy, which is considered one of the earliest examples of a sniper rifle, used by some Confederate forces during the American Civil war. Whitworth was created a baronet by Queen Victoria in 1869. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Whitworth is the 284th most popular inventor (down from 251st in 2019), the 3,061st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,276th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Whitworth ranks 284 out of 426. Before him are Frederick Scott Archer, Robert Cornelius, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Joseph Aspdin, Lester Allan Pelton, and Valerie Thomas. After him are Beulah Louise Henry, Genrich Altshuller, Ottomar Anschütz, Cyrus McCormick, Mark Rober, and Ralph Hartley.

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Among people born in 1803, Joseph Whitworth ranks 54. Before him are Alexander Dukhnovych, Albert Küchler, James Challis, Johann Jakob Kaup, Juan Almonte, and Bernardo Berro. After him are Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Martinus Rørbye, Dimitrios Voulgaris, William Thoms, Yevfimiy Putyatin, and Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen. Among people deceased in 1887, Joseph Whitworth ranks 37. Before him are Otto Lesser, Alvan Clark, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Louis Gallait, Joachim IV of Constantinople, and Lysander Spooner. After him are Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, August Friedrich Pott, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Mikhail Katkov, and Emma Lazarus.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Whitworth ranks 3,062 out of 8,785. Before him are Dorothy Garrod (1892), Ralph Abercromby (1734), John Profumo (1915), Christopher Eccleston (1964), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), and James Francis Stephens (1792). After him are Kelly Brook (1979), Hugh Clapperton (1788), Michael Oakeshott (1901), Charles Gray (1928), Douglas Hartree (1897), and Freddie Jones (1927).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Joseph Whitworth ranks 47. Before him are John Barnard (1946), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Alexander Bain (1810), James Nasmyth (1808), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), and Joseph Aspdin (1778). After him are Samuel Morland (1625), George Graham (1673), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Abraham Darby I (1678), Harry Brearley (1871), and Henry Shrapnel (1761).

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