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Arkwright, Richard

1732 - 1792

Franklin, Benjamin

1706 - 1790

Maskelyne, Nevil

1732 - 1811

Labelye, Charles

1705 - 1781

Simpson, Thomas

1710 - 1761
active 1724-1747, optical instrument maker, English; British

Loft, Matthew

1697 - 1747
active 1720s, inventor, developed programmable looms using punched tape, French.

Falcon, Jean-Baptiste

1690

Herschel, William

1738 - 1822

Hunter, William

1718 - 1783

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795

Black, Joseph

1728 - 1799

Hogarth, William

1697 - 1764

Darwin, Erasmus

1731 - 1802

Filley de la Barre, Pierre

1713 - 1779

Anson, George

1697 - 1762

Short, James

1710 - 1768

Demainbray, Stephen Charles Triboudet

1710 - 1782

Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de

1740 - 1812

Harrison, John

1693 - 1776

Priestley, Joseph (FRS, LLD)

1733 - 1804

Martin, Benjamin

1705 - 1782

Whitworth, Robert

1732 - 1799

Reynolds, Richard

1735 - 1816
1738-1819, physician, Belgian

Hende, Jean-François-Laurent van

1738 - 1819
1697-1732, shipwright, Portsmouth naval Dockyard, English

Hammond, William

1697 - 1732
1711-1778, philosopher and scientist, Italian

Bassi, Laura Maria Caterina

1711 - 1778
c. 1692-1776, active 1742-1770, medallist; coin engraver, Italian-born, British

Pingo, Thomas

1692 - 1712
1718-1791, physician, Irish

Quin, Henry

1718 - 1791
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
1736-1818, traveller, author, Scottish, British

Brydone, Patrick

1736 - 1818
1737-1816, politician, chemist, lawyer, French

Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard

1737 - 1816
1694-1757, court jester of August the Strong, Austrian

Fröhlich, Joseph

1694 - 1757
1697-1763, man-midwife, Scottish; British

Smellie, William

1697 - 1763
1691-1759, draftsman; printmaker, German

Heumann, Georg Daniel

1691 - 1759
1738-1809, bookseller, British

Johnson, Joseph

1738 - 1809
1693-1768, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne; first duke of Newcastle under Lyme, prime minister, English

Holles, Thomas Pelham-

1693 - 1768
1724-1793, active 1754-1793, print seller; publisher; map seller, English

Bowles, Carington

1724 - 1793
1739/40-1817, aeronaut; military theorist; army officer, English

Money, John

1739 - 1817
1737-1828, physician; inventor of an aerated water apparatus, British

Nooth, Dr John Mervyn

1737 - 1828
1737-1802

Williams, Thomas

1737 - 1802
1724-1792, civil engineer, English

Smeaton, John

1724 - 1792
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1715-1795, Moravian minister; bookseller, English; British

Hutton, James

1715 - 1795
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Cavendish, Henry

1731 - 1810
1728-1808, ironmaster; industrialist, English; British

Wilkinson, John

1728 - 1808
1709/10-1783, Pinchbeck the younger, clock-maker; watchmaker, British

Pinchbeck, Christopher

1709 - 1783
1727-1805, chemist, Irish

Woulfe, Peter

1727 - 1805
1709-1780, landscape engraver, French-born; British

Vivares, Francis

1709 - 1780
c1716-1788, active 1756-1788, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Troughton, John

1716 - 1788
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Arkwright, Sir Richard

1732 - 1792