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1799-1866, inventor, New York City and Paris

Loubat, Alphonse

1799 - 1866

1797-1888, King of Prussia, 1861-1888

Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig

1797 - 1888

1810-1868, neurologist, Austrian

Turck, Ludwig

1810 - 1868

Percy, John

1817 - 1889

1811-1888, Duchess of Galliera,

Brignole-Sale De Ferrari, Maria Brignole-Sale

1811 - 1888

1807-1881, railway company promoter, British

Pease, Henry

1807 - 1881

1817-1897, artist; illustrator, British; English

Gilbert, Sir John

1817 - 1897

Faraday, Michael

1791 - 1867

active 1800-1887, manufacturer of iron and brass, Manchester, England

Peel, Williams and Peel

1800 - 1887

1801-1870, optical instrument maker (microscope & telescope), German

Steinheil, Carl August

1801 - 1870

1765-1854, inventor of apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks, British

Manby, George William

1765 - 1854

1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Hancock, Walter

1799 - 1852

1811-1891, metallurgist, British

Mushet, Robert Forester

1811 - 1891

active 1835-1851, locksmith, American

Hobbs, Alfred Charles

1812 - 1891

1813-1897, zoologist, Danish, Denmark

Steenstrup, Johannes Japetus Smith

1813 - 1897

1779-1838, artist; painter; portraitist, French

Langlois, Jérome Martin

1779 - 1838

active 1820s & 1843, chemist & instrument & natural specimen seller, Leamington & Cambridge, England

Deck, Isaiah

1792 - 1853

1753-1835, active, 1804-1826, optician & mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Troughton, Edward

1753 - 1835

Andrews, Thomas

1813 - 1885

1796-1877, active 1810-1865, naval officer, British Royal Navy, inventor, British

Becher, Alexander Bridport

1796 - 1877

active 1792-1829, body snatcher, Edinburgh / British

Burke, William

1792 - 1829

1810-1883, physiologist, German; Swiss

Valentin, Gabriel Gustav

1810 - 1883

1818-present, lamp manufacturer, Stoke Newington

Tilley Ltd

1818

1802-1888, Church of England clergyman, British

Quekett, William

1802 - 1888

1814-1899, physician; surgeon, British

Paget, Sir James

1814 - 1899

1788-1859, artist; painter; engraver, British

Lizars, William Home

1788 - 1859

1812-1897, engraver and political activist, British

Linton, William James

1812 - 1897

active 1856, sculptor, French

Cavelier, Pierre-Jules

1814 - 1894

1791-1863, chemist, manufacturer of glasswares; politician, British

Pellatt, Apsley

1791 - 1863

1808-1862, mineralogist; physician, French

Sénarmont, Henri Hureau de

1808 - 1862

1781-1845, marine artist, British

Huggins, William John

1781 - 1845

1792-1867, artist; painter; printmaker; engraver, British

Pollard, James

1792 - 1867

Symonds, William

1782 - 1856

1801-1866, painter; printmaker, French

Adam, Victor

1801 - 1866

Baillie, Matthew

1761 - 1823

active 1782-1831, map, chart and globe seller, engraver, English; British

Cary, John

1760 - 1831

active 1806-1861, scientific instrument maker, British; English

Jones, Thomas

1775 - 1852

1762-1781, mechanical and manufacturing engineers, Birmingham, Staffordshire, England

Boulton and Fothergill

1762 - 1781

1816-1894, artist, lithographer; photographer, British

Bedford, Francis

1816 - 1894

1805-1877, medallist, French

Dantzell, Joseph

1805 - 1877

1815-1894, mechanical engineer, British

Hick, John

1815 - 1894

1820-1886, marine engineer, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, British

R & W Hawthorn

1817 - 1886

1766-1834, political economist, English; British

Malthus, Thomas Robert

1766 - 1834

1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1779 - 1780

1752-1805, physician; botanist, English; British

Woodville, William

1752 - 1805

active 1839-1866, optician, English; British

Dollond, George

1797 - 1866

Stephenson, Robert

1803 - 1859

1770-1837, chemist, German

Trommsdorff, Johann Bartholomaus

1770 - 1837

1770-1843, artist and writer, British; English

Pyne, William Henry

1770 - 1843

1759-1806, clerk; aeronaut; balloonist, Italian

Lunardi, Vincenzo

1759 - 1806