# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-pettit-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:06:16.537Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-pettit-smith"
name: "Francis Pettit Smith"
slug: "francis-pettit-smith"
description: "Sir Francis Pettit Smith was an English inventor and, along with John Ericsson, one of the inventors of the screw propeller. He was also the driving force behind the construction of the world's first screw-propelled steamship, SS Archimedes."
tagline: "British inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_Pettit_Smith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1808-02-09"
deathDate: "1874-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.52
  momentum:             4.258642765685019
  historical:           6.141757333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Francis Pettit Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pettit_Smith"
    title: "Francis Pettit Smith"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pettit_Smith"
    title: "Francis Pettit Smith"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pettit_Smith"
    title: "Francis Pettit Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pettit_Smith"
    title: "Francis Pettit Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pettit_Smith"
    title: "Francis Pettit Smith"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pettit_Smith"
    title: "Francis Pettit Smith"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320565"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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