# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-sylvester
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:04:57.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-sylvester"
name: "Charles Sylvester"
slug: "charles-sylvester"
description: "Charles Sylvester (1774–1828) was a chemist and inventor born in Sheffield, in the Kingdom of Great Britain. He worked on galvanization, public building heating and sanitation, and railroad friction amongst other things. A book, Industrial Man: The Life and Works of Charles Sylvester by Ian Inkster, Ph.D., of Nottingham University, and Maureen S. Bryson, B.S., published in 1999 is a comprehensive work covering his life, his extended family and pedigree, and his published works; including Poems on Various Subjects, 1797; The Epitome of Galvanism, 1804; Appendix of the Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, 1809; Philosophy of Domestic Economy, 1819; On a Method of expressing Chemical Compounds by Algebraic Characters, 1821; On the Motions produced by the Difference in the Specific Gravity of Bodies, 1822; Report on Rail-roads and Locomotive Engines, 1825; and On the best method of Warming and Ventilating Houses and other Buildings, 1829."
tagline: "British civil engineer and chemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Stylvester_bust_by_Chantry.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1774"
deathDate: "1828"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.669474666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Чарлз Сільвестр"
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    title: "Charles Sylvester"
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    title: "Charles Sylvester"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sylvester"
    title: "Charles Sylvester"
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    title: "Charles Sylvester"
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    title: "Charles Sylvester"
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    title: "Сильвестр, Чарльз"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump