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1660-1969, telecommunications company, Britain

General Post Office

1660 - 1969
1639-d.1713, horologist; clock-maker; barometer maker and scientific instrument maker, England, English

Thomas Tompion

1639 - 1713
1642-1727, natural philosopher; mathematician, English

Isaac Newton

1642 - 1727
1684/5-1761, medical practitioner; inventor of medicines, English

Joshua Ward

1684 - 1761
active 1685-1723, optical instrument maker, London, England; English; British

John Marshall

1659 - 1723
1711-1778, philosopher and scientist, Italian

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi

1711 - 1778
Captain

John Perry

1669 - 1702
1693-1776, horologist and clock-maker, English

John Harrison

1693 - 1776
1668-1738, anatomist; physician; botanist, Dutch

Herman Boerhaave

1668 - 1738
Mr

John Kay

1704 - 1780
1673-1751, active 1688-1751 horologist; scientific instrument maker, watchmaker, London, England

George Graham

1673 - 1751
1704-1782, active 1738-1777, science lecturer, philosophical, mathematical & optical instrument maker, Chichester, Sussex; London, England, British

Benjamin Martin

1705 - 1782
active 1681 - present (2010), cutlers and electroplaters, Sheffield

George Butler & Co

1681
1641-1707, natural philosopher; monk of the Premonstratensian order, German

Johann Zahn

1641 - 1707

Thomas Simpson

1710 - 1761
Baron Anson

George Anson

1697 - 1762
1697-1763, man-midwife, Scottish; British

William Smellie

1697 - 1763
1707-1783, mathematician; physicist, Swiss

Leonhard Euler

1707 - 1783
1698-1843, naval dockyard, Plymouth, Devon, England

Plymouth Dockyard

1698 - 1843
active 1674-1760, surgeon, French

Petit, Jean Louis

1674 - 1760
1696-1755, mining engineer; colliery steward, English

Carlisle Spedding

1696 - 1755
1674-1702, active from 1695, mathematical, philosophical & nautical instrument maker, English

Thomas Tuttell

1674 - 1702
1681-1755, active 1707-1730, mathematical instrument maker & map surveyor, English; British

Richard Glynne

1681 - 1755
c. 1668-1728, scientific instrument maker; mechanic, English

John Rowley

1668 - 1728
1709-1772, active 1734-72, mathematical, philosophical & optical instrument maker, lecturer, English

George Adams

1709 - 1772
1656-1742, astronomer, English

Edmond Halley

1656 - 1742
active 1700-1737, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Edmund Culpeper

1670 - 1737
1660-1742, physician, German

Friedrich Hoffmann

1660 - 1742
1700-1772, physician to Empress Maria Theresa, Dutch

Gerard Van Swieten

1700 - 1772
1707-1778, naturalist; taxonomist, Swedish

Carl Linnaeus

1707 - 1778
1695-1766, active 1720-1750, mathematical, philosophical, optical instrument maker, London, England

Benjamin Cole

1695 - 1766
1660-1742, physician; privateer, English

Thomas Dover

1660 - 1704
1647-1712?, physicist; natural philosopher, French

Denis Papin

1647
1682-1771, physician; anatomist, Italian

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

1682 - 1771
1663-1729, ironmonger; inventor of atmospheric steam engine, English

Thomas Newcomen

1663 - 1729
active 1722-1747, mathematical instrument maker, Strand, London, England

Jonathan Sisson

1690 - 1747
1704-1781/1782, inventor of the flying shuttle, English; British

John Kay

1704
1660-1713, natural philosopher; scientific instrument maker, English

Francis Hauksbee

1660 - 1713
1713-1772, physician; inventor of geomagnetic instruments, English

Gowin Knight

1713 - 1772
1650?-1715, engineer, English

Thomas Savery

1650 - 1715
1648/9-1724, clock and watchmaker; barometer maker, English; British

Daniel Quare

1648 - 1724
active 1760s-1790s, clock and watchmaker, Swiss; British

Justin Vulliamy

1712 - 1797
1692-1761, natural philosopher (physicist), Dutch

Pieter van Musschenbroek

1692 - 1761
active 1744-1783, scientific instrument maker, German

Georg Friedrich Brander

1713 - 1783
1700?-1771, clockmaker; mechanician, British; English

Henry Hindley

1701 - 1771
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1682-1744, natural philosopher; optical instrument maker; mathematician, British; English

John Hadley

1682 - 1744
1674-1740, agricultural innovator; writer, English; British

Jethro Tull

1674 - 1741

Sheerness Dockyard

1665 - 1957
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780