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John Blenkinsop, a Common card
John Blenkinsop was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives, who designed the first practical railway locomotive.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 53
- DEF
- 27
- Power
- 80
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 3,300
Power 80 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was born in Felling, County Durham, the son of a stonemason and was apprenticed to his cousin, Thomas Barnes, a Northumberland coal viewer.
- From 1808 he became agent to Charles John Brandling, who owned collieries on his Middleton estate near Leeds and whose family came from Felling.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Blenkinsop article was read about 3,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 53 and blocks with 27: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get John Blenkinsop
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Blenkinsop (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : 1829 author unknown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.



