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Sandford Fleming

1827 - 1915

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Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of Coordinated Universal Time. He designed Canada's first postage stamp, produced a great deal of work in the fields of land surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the first several hundred kilometers of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Canadian Institute (a science organization in Toronto). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sandford Fleming is the 172nd most popular inventor (up from 186th in 2019), the 1,741st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,614th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Inventor.

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Among inventors, Sandford Fleming ranks 172 out of 426. Before him are Guillaume Amontons, Robert Watson-Watt, Robert Metcalfe, Charles Algernon Parsons, Jang Yeong-sil, and John Ericsson. After him are Heinrich Göbel, Charles Cros, Uziel Gal, Gaston Glock, Henrich Focke, and Émile Baudot.

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Among people born in 1827, Sandford Fleming ranks 26. Before him are Frederick Abel, William Burges, Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland, Mihály Zichy, John Hanning Speke, and Konstantin Pobedonostsev. After him are Afzal-ud-Daulah, Lew Wallace, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Nikolai Severtzov, and Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria. Among people deceased in 1915, Sandford Fleming ranks 40. Before him are Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Anna Leonowens, Theodor Leschetizky, I. L. Peretz, Ankō Itosu, and James Murray. After him are Hans Gross, Friedrich Loeffler, Carlos Finlay, Anatoly Stessel, Karl Lamprecht, and Danilo Ilić.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sandford Fleming ranks 1,741 out of 8,785. Before him are Carol Reed (1906), Ben Cross (1947), Greg Lake (1947), Henry Sidgwick (1838), Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766), and Dave Hill (1946). After him are Thomas Kyd (1558), William Prout (1785), James Herriot (1916), Neil Tennant (1954), Colin Davis (1927), and Paul Scholes (1974).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Sandford Fleming ranks 27. Before him are W. O. Bentley (1888), John Kay (1704), Robert Stirling (1790), Oliver Lodge (1851), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), and Charles Algernon Parsons (1854). After him are Matthew Boulton (1728), William Murdoch (1754), James Dyson (1947), David Edward Hughes (1831), Jethro Tull (1674), and Elihu Thomson (1853).

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