# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-f-isherwood
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:35:06.497Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-f-isherwood"
name: "Benjamin F. Isherwood"
slug: "benjamin-f-isherwood"
description: "Benjamin Franklin Isherwood was an engineering officer in the United States Navy during the early days of steam-powered warships. He served as a ship's engineer during the Mexican–American War, and after the war did experimental work with steam propulsion. Rising to the rank of rear admiral, as Engineer-in-Chief of the Navy during the Civil War, he helped to found the Navy's Bureau of Steam Engineering."
tagline: "United States Navy admiral (1822-1915)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_F._Isherwood.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1822-10-06"
deathDate: "1915-06-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.270806666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_F._Isherwood"
    title: "Benjamin F. Isherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81._%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "بنيامين ف. ايشيروود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_F._Isherwood"
    title: "Benjamin F. Isherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Isherwood"
    title: "Benjamin Franklin Isherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_F._Isherwood"
    title: "Benjamin F. Isherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_F._Isherwood"
    title: "Benjamin F. Isherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q817470"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump