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1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912
active 1828-1947, marine & aeronautical navigational instrument maker, London, England, British

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947

Walker, John

1781 - 1859
1821-1895, optician, philosophical & photographic instrument maker, London, England

Ackland, William

1821 - 1895
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Lovelace, Ada

1815 - 1852
1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

Morton, William Thomas Green

1819 - 1868
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

Jennings, George

1810 - 1882
1785-1861, engineer; millwright, English; British

Cubitt, Sir William

1785 - 1861
baptised 1818, d. 1883, public executioner, British

Marwood, William

1818 - 1883
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871

Manchester Corporation Waterworks

1848 - 1971
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Bate, Robert Brettell

1782 - 1847
1818-1984, lock and safe manufacturer, England, British

Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company Limited

1818 - 1984
1847-1922, teacher of deaf people; inventor of telephone, Scottish; American

Bell, Alexander Graham

1847 - 1922

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890

Stephenson, George

1781 - 1848

Trevithick, Francis

1812 - 1877

Burnaby, Sherrard Beaumont

1831 - 1902
1813-1897, zoologist, Danish, Denmark

Steenstrup, Johannes Japetus Smith

1813 - 1897
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

Merlin, John Joseph

1735 - 1803
1838-1907, chemist, English; British

Perkin, Sir William Henry

1838 - 1907
1841-1914, inventor of a semi-automatic bottle-making machine, British

Ashley, Howard Matravers

1841 - 1914
active 1829-1895, microbiologist; chemist, French

Pasteur, Louis

1822 - 1895
1792-1851, inventor of ticket-printing machinery, British

Edmondson, Thomas

1792 - 1851
1823-1834, scientific instrument maker, Edinburgh, Scotland

Adie, Alexander

1775 - 1204
1820-1962, periodical and magazine, London

John Bull Magazine

1820 - 1962

Swan, Joseph Wilson

1828 - 1914

Hooper and Company (Coachbuilders) Limited

1846 - 1859
1832-1914, artist, British

Ascroft, William

1832 - 1914
1850-1991, pressure gauge manufacturer, German

Schaeffer and Budenberg Ltd.

1850 - 1991
1816-1892, astronomer and photographer, American

Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris

1816 - 1892
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858
active 1674-1760, surgeon, French

Petit, Jean Louis

1674 - 1760
1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975
1635-1703, natural philosopher, Isle of Wight, England, English

Hooke, Robert

1635 - 1703
1835-1992, lithographer; engraver; printer, Glasgow

MacLure and MacDonald

1835 - 1992
1829-1901, physiologist, German

Fick, Adolf Eugen

1829 - 1901
c.1826 - 1989, map maker, Edinburgh

The Edinburgh Geographical Institute

1826 - 1989
1846-1959, coachbuilder, London

Hooper and Company (Coachbuilders) Limited

1846 - 1859
1837-c.1969, optical instrument manufacturer, London, England

W Watson and Sons Limited

1837 - 1969
1835-1948, railway company, British

Great Western Railway

1835 - 1948
1845-c1955, optical instrument, lens and camera makers, Germany

Emil Busch AG

1845
1842-, manufacturer of ceramics, Burslem, England

John Maddock and Sons Limited

1842
1824-1914, science writer; aeronaut, French

Fonvielle, Wilfrid de

1824 - 1914
1785-1851, artist; naturalist; ornithologist, American

Audubon, John James

1785 - 1851
c. 1828-1889?, apprenticed 1844 to Brumby & Middleton, merchants & factors of Sheffield, British

Sawyer, John Robert Mather

1828 - 1889
1729-1777, [nicknamed the Macaroni Parson] Church of England clergyman; forger, British

Dodd, William

1729 - 1777
1813-1979, manufacturer, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, British

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979