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Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

James Phipps

1788 - 1853
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Edward Jenner

1749 - 1823

John Walker

1781 - 1859
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Edwin Chadwick

1800 - 1890
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901
Mr

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
1799-1871, botanist; photographic artist, British

Anna Atkins

1799 - 1871
1749-1978, hospital, English

Liverpool Royal Infirmary

1749 - 1978

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve

1793 - 1864
1715-current, pharmaceutical manufacturer, England, British

Allen & Hanburys Limited

1715
1736-1819, mechanical engineer; scientist, Scottish; British

James Watt

1736 - 1819
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Samuel Hahnemann

1755 - 1843
active 1739 - 1949, bell manufacturers, Cripplegate

J. Warner & Sons

1739 - 1949
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
1660-1969, telecommunications company, Britain

General Post Office

1660 - 1969
1771-1831, mechanical engineer, tool maker & inventor; patentee English; British

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
Mr

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

1754 - 1814
1717-c.1955, button maker, Birmingham

Hammond Turner and Sons Limited

1717 - 1955

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865
1684/5-1761, medical practitioner; inventor of medicines, English

Joshua Ward

1684 - 1761
active 1749-1806, sundial maker; optical, mathematical, philosophical inst. maker & natural philosopher, British

Edward Nairne

1726 - 1806

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
Mr

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
1799-1865, active 1812-1865, physician; army medical officer, English

James Barry

1789 - 1865
1718-1807, physician; clergyman, English

Francis Willis

1718 - 1807
1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Walter Hancock

1799 - 1852
1800-1970's?, button manufacturer, London

Jennens and Company Limited

1800
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

1789
1716-1774, lecturer and professor of anatomy, Italian

Anna Morandi Manzolini

1716 - 1774
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

John Dalton

1766 - 1844
1743-1794, chemist & chemical pioneer, French

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

1743 - 1794
1759-present, engineering company, Dowlais

Guest Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd

1759
active 1800-1963, manufacturer of hearing aids, London, England

FC Rein and Son, FC Rein &

1800 - 1963
1794-1992, dispensing chemist; druggist, London, England

Savory and Moore Limited

1794 - 1992
active 1685-1723, optical instrument maker, London, England; English; British

John Marshall

1659 - 1723
1716-1794, naval surgeon; physician, Scottish; British

James Lind

1716 - 1794
Sir

George Cayley

1773 - 1857
Sir

Marc Isambard Brunel

1769 - 1849

Richard Roberts

1789 - 1864
1711-1778, philosopher and scientist, Italian

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi

1711 - 1778
Captain

John Perry

1669 - 1702
1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975

George Hudson

1800 - 1871
1693-1776, horologist and clock-maker, English

John Harrison

1693 - 1776
1792-1851, inventor of ticket-printing machinery, British

Thomas Edmondson

1792 - 1851
Mr

John Kay

1704 - 1780
1668-1738, anatomist; physician; botanist, Dutch

Herman Boerhaave

1668 - 1738