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1717-c.1955, button maker, Birmingham

Hammond Turner and Sons Limited

1717 - 1955
1684/5-1761, medical practitioner; inventor of medicines, English

Joshua Ward

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

Francis Willis

1718 - 1807
1716-1774, lecturer and professor of anatomy, Italian

Anna Morandi Manzolini

1716 - 1774
1716-1794, naval surgeon; physician, Scottish; British

James Lind

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

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi

1711 - 1778
1693-1776, horologist and clock-maker, English

John Harrison

1693 - 1776
Mr

John Kay

1704 - 1780
1704-1782, active 1738-1777, science lecturer, philosophical, mathematical & optical instrument maker, Chichester, Sussex; London, England, British

Benjamin Martin

1705 - 1782
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

Thomas Simpson

1710 - 1761
1698-1843, naval dockyard, Plymouth, Devon, England

Plymouth Dockyard

1698 - 1843
1696-1755, mining engineer; colliery steward, English

Carlisle Spedding

1696 - 1755
1681-1755, active 1707-1730, mathematical instrument maker & map surveyor, English; British

Richard Glynne

1681 - 1755
1709-1772, active 1734-72, mathematical, philosophical & optical instrument maker, lecturer, English

George Adams

1709 - 1772
1716-1772, civil engineer, English; British

James Brindley

1716 - 1772
1700-1772, physician to Empress Maria Theresa, Dutch

Gerard Van Swieten

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

Carl Linnaeus

1707 - 1778
1682-1771, physician; anatomist, Italian

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

1682 - 1771
active 1722-1747, mathematical instrument maker, Strand, London, England

Jonathan Sisson

1690 - 1747
1715 or 1716-1794, horologist; marine escapement and watchmaker, London, England, English

Thomas Mudge

1715 - 1794
1695-1766, active 1720-1750, mathematical, philosophical, optical instrument maker, London, England

Benjamin Cole

1695 - 1766
active 1760s-1790s, clock and watchmaker, Swiss; British

Justin Vulliamy

1712 - 1797
1713-1772, physician; inventor of geomagnetic instruments, English

Gowin Knight

1713 - 1772
1720-1778, inventor of the spinning jenny, English

James Hargreaves

1720 - 1778
1692-1761, natural philosopher (physicist), Dutch

Pieter van Musschenbroek

1692 - 1761
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1700?-1771, clockmaker; mechanician, British; English

Henry Hindley

1701 - 1771
1682-1744, natural philosopher; optical instrument maker; mathematician, British; English

John Hadley

1682 - 1744
1721-1793, physician; surgeon, English; British

John Mudge

1710 - 1793
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
c. 1717-1786, artist; printmaker; anatomist, French

Jacques-Fabien Gautier

1717 - 1786
active 1744-1783, scientific instrument maker, German

Georg Friedrich Brander

1713 - 1783
1710-1768, active 1734-1768, optical instrument maker, British; Scottish

James Short

1710 - 1768
1704-1781/1782, inventor of the flying shuttle, English; British

John Kay

1704
1693-1764, postal entrepreneur; philanthropist, English

Ralph Allen

1693 - 1764
1687-1748, instrument maker, Dutch

Jan van Musschenbroek

1687 - 1748
1710-1776, lecturer; inventor; astronomer, Scottish; British

James Ferguson

1710 - 1776
active 1720s, inventor, developed programmable looms using punched tape, French.

Jean-Baptiste Falcon

1690
active 1724-1747, optical instrument maker, English; British

Matthew Loft

1697 - 1747
1708-1772, active 1731-1770, optician, optical instrument & microscope maker and seller, London, England, English

John Cuff

1708 - 1772
1709/10-1783, Pinchbeck the younger, clock-maker; watchmaker, British

Christopher Pinchbeck

1709 - 1783
1690-1762, politician, English; British

Wallop, John

1690 - 1762
1690-1999, fire engine manufacturer, Greenwich, England

Merryweather and Sons Limited

1690
1703-1791, Church of England clergyman; founder of Methodism, English

John Wesley

1703 - 1791

Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray

1710 - 1782
active 1735-1790, chronometer maker; watchmaker, London, England

Larcum Kendall

1719 - 1790
active 1749-1783, mathematical instrument maker, Strand, London, England

Jeremiah Sisson

1720 - 1783