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1660-1969, telecommunications company, Britain

General Post Office

1660 - 1969
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
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

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
1660-1742, physician; privateer, English

Thomas Dover

1660 - 1704
1695-1766, active 1720-1750, mathematical, philosophical, optical instrument maker, London, England

Benjamin Cole

1695 - 1766
1663-1729, ironmonger; inventor of atmospheric steam engine, English

Thomas Newcomen

1663 - 1729
1682-1771, physician; anatomist, Italian

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

1682 - 1771
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
1692-1761, natural philosopher (physicist), Dutch

Pieter van Musschenbroek

1692 - 1761
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
1652-1733, active 1700-1733, mathematical instrument and sundial maker, Paris, France, French

Nicolas Bion

1652 - 1733
1687-1748, instrument maker, Dutch

Jan van Musschenbroek

1687 - 1748
1721-1793, physician; surgeon, English; British

John Mudge

1710 - 1793
1693-1764, postal entrepreneur; philanthropist, English

Ralph Allen

1693 - 1764
1690-1762, politician, English; British

Wallop, John

1690 - 1762
active 1720s, inventor, developed programmable looms using punched tape, French.

Jean-Baptiste Falcon

1690
1710-1768, active 1734-1768, optical instrument maker, British; Scottish

James Short

1710 - 1768
1710-1776, lecturer; inventor; astronomer, Scottish; British

James Ferguson

1710 - 1776
1674-1731, 4th Earl of Orrery, nobleman; statesman; patron of the sciences, Irish

Charles Boyle

1674 - 1731
1703-1791, Church of England clergyman; founder of Methodism, English

John Wesley

1703 - 1791