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

Edward Jenner

1749 - 1823
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
1749-1978, hospital, English

Liverpool Royal Infirmary

1749 - 1978
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Samuel Hahnemann

1755 - 1843
1660-1969, telecommunications company, Britain

General Post Office

1660 - 1969
1736-1819, mechanical engineer; scientist, Scottish; British

James Watt

1736 - 1819
1771-1831, mechanical engineer, tool maker & inventor; patentee English; British

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

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

Hammond Turner and Sons Limited

1717 - 1955
active 1749-1806, sundial maker; optical, mathematical, philosophical inst. maker & natural philosopher, British

Edward Nairne

1726 - 1806

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
1684/5-1761, medical practitioner; inventor of medicines, English

Joshua Ward

1684 - 1761
1718-1807, physician; clergyman, English

Francis Willis

1718 - 1807
Mr

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
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
1716-1794, naval surgeon; physician, Scottish; British

James Lind

1716 - 1794
1711-1778, philosopher and scientist, Italian

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi

1711 - 1778
Sir

George Cayley

1773 - 1857
Sir

Marc Isambard Brunel

1769 - 1849
Captain

John Perry

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

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975
1668-1738, anatomist; physician; botanist, Dutch

Herman Boerhaave

1668 - 1738
Mr

John Kay

1704 - 1780
1724-1793, active 1754-1793, print seller; publisher; map seller, English

Carington Bowles

1724 - 1793
1693-1776, horologist and clock-maker, English

John Harrison

1693 - 1776
1764-1834, active 1791-1830, publisher, London, England

Ackermann and Company

1764 - 1834
1704-1782, active 1738-1777, science lecturer, philosophical, mathematical & optical instrument maker, Chichester, Sussex; London, England, British

Benjamin Martin

1705 - 1782
1779-1843, designer; steam locomotive maker, British

William Hedley

1779 - 1843
Mr

John Urpeth Rastrick

1780 - 1856
1673-1751, active 1688-1751 horologist; scientific instrument maker, watchmaker, London, England

George Graham

1673 - 1751
1750-1803, philosopher; physicist, Swiss

Ami Argand

1750 - 1803

William Hyde Wollaston

1766 - 1828
Mr

John Dalton

1766 - 1844
Sir

Humphry Davy

1778 - 1829
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792
1697-1763, man-midwife, Scottish; British

William Smellie

1697 - 1763
Baron Anson

George Anson

1697 - 1762

Thomas Simpson

1710 - 1761
1707-1783, mathematician; physicist, Swiss

Leonhard Euler

1707 - 1783

William Farish

1759 - 1837
1771-1802, physician; anatomist; physiologist, French

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

1771 - 1802
1738-1822, musician and astronomer, German born; naturalised British

William Herschel

1738 - 1822
active 1806-1861, scientific instrument maker, British; English

Thomas Jones

1775 - 1852
Mr

Thomas Meynell

1763 - 1854
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

John Hunter

1728 - 1793
1698-1843, naval dockyard, Plymouth, Devon, England

Plymouth Dockyard

1698 - 1843

Edward Pease

1767 - 1858
1759-1806, clerk; aeronaut; balloonist, Italian

Vincenzo Lunardi

1759 - 1806