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Samuel Morland

1625 - 1695

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Sir Samuel Morland, 1st Baronet (1625 – 30 December 1695), or Moreland, was an English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century, a polymath credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Morland is the 295th most popular inventor (down from 276th in 2019), the 3,256th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,699th in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Samuel Morland ranks 295 out of 426. Before him are Mark Rober, Ralph Hartley, Petrache Poenaru, Frank Zamboni, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, and Max Valier. After him are Jacob Perkins, Mohamed M. Atalla, Kálmán Kandó, L. L. Langstroth, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, and Bill Atkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1625, Samuel Morland ranks 17. Before him are Pierre Nicole, William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Filippo Baldinucci, Thomas Corneille, Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden, and Marie de Nemours. After him are François de Créquy, and Oliver Plunkett. Among people deceased in 1695, Samuel Morland ranks 20. Before him are Paul Hermann, Pierre Nicole, Georg von Derfflinger, Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Christoph Arnold, and Huang Zongxi. After him is Henry Vaughan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Morland ranks 3,257 out of 8,785. Before him are Tim Pigott-Smith (1946), Jamie Oliver (1975), Thelma Hopkins (1936), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Alex Salmond (1954), and Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724). After him are Anthony Caro (1924), Nick Rhodes (1962), Anthony R. Hunter (1943), John Taylor (1933), Brian Connolly (1945), and Gary Barlow (1971).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Samuel Morland ranks 48. Before him are Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Alexander Bain (1810), James Nasmyth (1808), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Joseph Aspdin (1778), and Joseph Whitworth (1803). After him are George Graham (1673), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Abraham Darby I (1678), Harry Brearley (1871), Henry Shrapnel (1761), and David Dunbar Buick (1854).

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