# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-valoue
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:46:49.169Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-valoue"
name: "James Valoue"
slug: "james-valoue"
description: "James Valoue was an 18th-century watchmaker. He is most remembered for his 1737 design of a horse-powered pile driver which was used in the construction of Westminster Bridge. In 1738 the Royal Society of London gave Valoue the Copley Medal for his invention of \"an engine for driving piles to make a foundation for the bridge to be erected in Westminster, the model whereof had been shown to the society\". The Science Museum of London holds a model of Valoue's pile driver constructed by Stephen Demainbray."
tagline: "English inventor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1700"
deathDate: "1800"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.77
  momentum:             23.18181818181818
  historical:           8.335493333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "James Valoue"
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    title: "James Valoue"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Valoue"
    title: "James Valoue"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Valoue"
    title: "James Valoue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز والو"
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    title: "James Valoue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Valoue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Valoue"
    title: "James Valoue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Valoue"
    title: "James Valoue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Valoue"
    title: "James Valoue"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3378658"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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