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1751-1832, engineer, French

de Jouffroy, Claude-François-Dorothée

1751 - 1832

1739-1806, inventor of the panorama, Irish

Barker, Robert

1739 - 1806

1746-1823, physicist; aeronaut; balloonist , French

Charles, Jacques

1746 - 1823

1749-1826, astronomer; mathematician; priest; Italian

Piazzi, Giuseppe

1749 - 1826

1751-1847, artist; engraver; printmaker; author, French

Sergent-Marceau, Antoine Louis François

1751 - 1847

1741-1819, geologist; sponsor, French

Faujas-de-Saint-Fond, Barthélémy

1741 - 1819

1739-1939, hospital; orphanage, English; British

Foundling Hospital

1739 - 1939

c 1738-1821, engraver, English

Pether, William

1738 - 1821

1736-1790, mineralogist, French

Romé de L'Isle, Jean-Baptiste Louis

1736 - 1790

active 1750-current (2009), publishers and printers, London, England, English

Shaw & Sons Limited

1750

Reproduction of Cronstedt's mouth blowpipe with candlestick from 1750.

Cronstedt's blowpipe, 1750

Experimental Chemistry

1750

1740-(current 2015), silk weavers, Sudbury, England

Vanners Silk Weavers

1740

1750-, musical instrument maker, London, England

C Wheatstone and Company

1750

c. 1750-?, Royal Navy 'bomb vessel' (ship), British

HMS Racehorse

1750

Silver medal to commemorate the defeat of the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745, and William, Duke of Cumberland, by T. Pingo, England, 1745

Medal commemorating the Duke of Cumberland's defeat of the Jacobite Rebellion

Wellcome Medals

1745

1741-1801, physiognomist; poet, Swiss

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

1741 - 1801

1746-c. 1807, artist; painter; engraver, British

Townley, Charles

1746 - 1807

1747-1792, Holy Roman Emperor from 1790-1792

Leopold II

1747 - 1792

Jacquard, Joseph Marie

1752 - 1834

1749-1806, politician; Whig statesman, British

Fox, Charles James

1749 - 1806

1737-1816, cleric; chemist, British; English

Watson, Richard

1737 - 1816

Coke, Thomas William (first earl of Leicester of Holkham)

1745 - 1842

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

1743 - 1794

Withering, William (MD, FRS)

1741 - 1799

Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de

1740 - 1812

1749-1832, writer; polymath, German

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

1749 - 1832

Reynolds, Richard

1735 - 1816

1752-1812, aeronaut, Italian

Zambeccari, Francisco

1752 - 1812

1740-1824, physician, Danish/German

Callisen, Henry

1740 - 1824

1751-1838, physician; professor, German

Pickel, Johann Georg

1751 - 1838

1737-1816, politician, chemist, lawyer, French

Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard

1737 - 1816

1741-1827, artist, American

Peale, Charles Willson

1741 - 1827

1736-1812, radical politician; philologist, British

Tooke, John Horne

1736 - 1812

1740-1800, ironmaster, British

Cort, Henry

1740 - 1800

1745-1816, physician, German

Bremer, , Johann Emanuel

1745 - 1816

1751-1832, artist; medallist, French

Gatteaux, Nicolas-Marie

1751 - 1832

1737-1828, physician; inventor of an aerated water apparatus, British

Nooth, Dr John Mervyn

1737 - 1828

c. 1735-1793, portrait painter; draughtsman, British

Davy, Robert

1735 - 1793

active 1739-1769, printmaker, London, England

Spilsbury, John

1739 - 1769

1736-1818, traveller, author, Scottish, British

Brydone, Patrick

1736 - 1818

1750-1835, sculptor, Belgian

Godecharle, Gilles-Lambert

1750 - 1835

1741-1799, physician; botanist, English; British

Withering, William

1741 - 1799

1749 - 1829, police force, British

Bow Street Runners

1749

1743/4-1789, wife of John Arnold, mother of John Roger Arnold, chronometer makers, English

Arnold, Margaret

1743 - 1789

1739-1812, printer, British

Walter, John

1739 - 1812

1741-1799, physician; inventor of 'Perkins Tractors', American

Perkins, Elisha

1741 - 1799

1747-1823, watchmaker; horologist, Swiss; French

Bréguet, Abraham-Louis

1747 - 1823

1743-1820, explorer; naturalist; patron of science, British

Banks, Sir Joseph

1743 - 1820

1741-1790, Holy Roman Emperor, Austrian

Joseph II

1741 - 1790

1747-1821, landscape painter; diarist, English; British

Farington, Joseph

1747 - 1821