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William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong

1810 - 1900

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William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong is the 55th most popular engineer (up from 294th in 2019), the 1,041st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,731st in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 55 out of 389. Before him are Viktor Bryukhanov, Bjarne Stroustrup, Marcello Gandini, Ernst Heinkel, Godfrey Hounsfield, and Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr.. After him are John Ambrose Fleming, Kurt Gerstein, Valentin Glushko, Su Song, Masaru Ibuka, and Colin Chapman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 20. Before him are Otto Nicolai, Ernst Kummer, Fanny Elssler, Henri Victor Regnault, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, and Karl Richard Lepsius. After him are Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Princess Pauline of Württemberg, Nikolay Pirogov, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Francesco Maria Piave. Among people deceased in 1900, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 19. Before him are Wilhelm Liebknecht, Emil Škoda, Joseph Bertrand, Nicolas Chauvin, Robert Luther, and Osman Nuri Pasha. After him are Armand David, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Francis, Duke of Teck, Mary Kingsley, Isaac Levitan, and Naim Frashëri.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 1,041 out of 8,785. Before him are Tony Brooks (1932), Stephen Frears (1941), Leonard Hobhouse (1864), Alan Parsons (1948), David Lodge (1935), and Charlotte Cooper (1870). After him are Keith O'Brien (1938), N. R. Pogson (1829), Duncan I of Scotland (1001), John Cale (1942), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), and William Webb Ellis (1806).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong ranks 5. Before him are William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), Hertha Ayrton (1854), and Godfrey Hounsfield (1919). After him are John Ambrose Fleming (1849), Colin Chapman (1928), Charles George Gordon (1833), Adrian Newey (1958), Henry Royce (1863), Charles Rolls (1877), and Patrick Head (1946).

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