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Jacob Perkins, a Common card
Jacob Perkins was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist based in the United Kingdom.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 112
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 112 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith.
- He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents.
- He is sometimes known as the father of the refrigerator.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jacob Perkins article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Jacob Perkins
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jacob Perkins (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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