# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-hancock
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:19:31.898Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-hancock"
name: "Walter Hancock"
slug: "walter-hancock"
description: "Walter Hancock was an English inventor of the Victorian period. He is chiefly remembered for his steam-powered road vehicles, but also received a patent for preparing and cutting natural rubber into sheets. He was the younger brother of Thomas Hancock, the inventor of rubber mastication who is also claimed by some to be the inventor of rubber vulcanization."
tagline: "British inventor of steam-powered road vehicles (1799-1852)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Walter_Hancock_(4672553).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1799-06-16"
deathDate: "1852-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.08
  momentum:             5.294117647058822
  historical:           3.940713333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "والتر هانكوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hancock"
    title: "Walter Hancock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hancock"
    title: "Walter Hancock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hancock"
    title: "Walter Hancock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7965070"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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