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Marc Seguin

1786 - 1875

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Marc Seguin (20 April 1786 – 24 February 1875) was a French engineer, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge and the multi-tubular steam-engine boiler. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marc Seguin is the 149th most popular engineer (up from 161st in 2019), the 2,911th most popular biography from France (up from 2,961st in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Marc Seguin ranks 149 out of 389. Before him are J. Walter Christie, Georges Leclanché, Vitaly Abalakov, Franz Reuleaux, John Scott Russell, and Hellmuth Walter. After him are Sherif Ismail, Mikhail Yangel, Walter Hohmann, Gabriel Voisin, Giuseppe Colombo, and Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Marc Seguin ranks 31. Before him are Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, William George Horner, Gaspar del Bufalo, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Nicolás Bravo, and Winfield Scott. After him are Joachim Lelewel, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, Justinus Kerner, Agustina de Aragón, and Albrecht Adam. Among people deceased in 1875, Marc Seguin ranks 42. Before him are Frederick William, Elector of Hesse, Carl Jakob Sundevall, January Suchodolski, Henri Labrouste, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, and Edgar Quinet. After him are Eugène Schneider, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Richard Christopher Carrington, Prosper Guéranger, Georg Herwegh, and Princess Alexandra of Bavaria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marc Seguin ranks 2,911 out of 6,770. Before him are Jules Dalou (1838), Valérie Trierweiler (1965), Claude Autant-Lara (1901), Fabrice Luchini (1951), Jules Favre (1809), and Eugène Burnouf (1801). After him are Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809), Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797), Jean Carmet (1920), Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve (1756), Maryan Wisniewski (1937), and Michel Corrette (1707).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Marc Seguin ranks 18. Before him are François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Henry Darcy (1803), Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), Alexandre Darracq (1855), Pierre-Émile Martin (1824), and Georges Leclanché (1836). After him are Gabriel Voisin (1880), Pierre Berthier (1782), Antoine de Chézy (1718), Louis Charles Breguet (1880), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), and Gérard Larrousse (1940).

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