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

Edward Jenner

1749 - 1823
1749-1978, hospital, English

Liverpool Royal Infirmary

1749 - 1978
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Samuel Hahnemann

1755 - 1843
1736-1819, mechanical engineer; scientist, Scottish; British

James Watt

1736 - 1819
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
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
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
1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975
1693-1776, horologist and clock-maker, English

John Harrison

1693 - 1776
Mr

John Kay

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

Carington Bowles

1724 - 1793
1704-1782, active 1738-1777, science lecturer, philosophical, mathematical & optical instrument maker, Chichester, Sussex; London, England, British

Benjamin Martin

1705 - 1782
1750-1803, philosopher; physicist, Swiss

Ami Argand

1750 - 1803
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792

Thomas Simpson

1710 - 1761
1738-1822, musician and astronomer, German born; naturalised British

William Herschel

1738 - 1822

William Farish

1759 - 1837
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
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

John Hunter

1728 - 1793
active 1789-1825, optician nautical instrument and telescope maker, English; British

William Cary

1759 - 1825
1759-1806, clerk; aeronaut; balloonist, Italian

Vincenzo Lunardi

1759 - 1806
1722-1809, physician, Austrian

Josef Leopold Auenbrugger

1722 - 1809

William Reynolds

1758 - 1803
1696-1755, mining engineer; colliery steward, English

Carlisle Spedding

1696 - 1755
1731-1793, natural philosopher (scientist), inventor, English, British

James Six

1731 - 1793
active 1788-1817, mathematical, philosophical (globes) & optical instrument maker, English; British

Dudley Adams

1760 - 1830

James Watt

1736 - 1819
1750-1848, astronomer, German

Caroline Lucretia Herschel

1750 - 1848
1732-1797, compass manufacturer, Germany

Johann Christoph Voigtlander

1732 - 1797
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
1752-1834; inventor; French

Joseph Marie Jacquard

1752 - 1834
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

John Joseph Merlin

1735 - 1803
1735-1819, medallist, German

Daniel Friedrich Loos

1735 - 1819
1700-1772, physician to Empress Maria Theresa, Dutch

Gerard Van Swieten

1700 - 1772
1754-1839, engineer; inventor, British; Scottish

William Murdock

1754 - 1839
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810

Matthew Boulton

1728 - 1809
bap. 1723, d. 1791; active 1747-1784, optician, Welsh; British

Francis Watkins

1723 - 1791
1749-1799, clergyman; natural philosopher, English; British

Abraham Bennet

1749 - 1799
1724-1792, civil engineer, English

John Smeaton

1724 - 1792