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Alexander Parkes

1813 - 1890
1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

William Thomas Green Morton

1819 - 1868

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis

1818 - 1865
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

James Phipps

1788 - 1853
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Edward Jenner

1749 - 1823
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Ada Lovelace

1815 - 1852

John Walker

1781 - 1859
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Edwin Chadwick

1800 - 1890
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901
1813-1979, manufacturer, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, British

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

John Snow

1813 - 1858
Mr

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

1806 - 1859
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
1799-1871, botanist; photographic artist, British

Anna Atkins

1799 - 1871
1749-1978, hospital, English

Liverpool Royal Infirmary

1749 - 1978
Sir

Charles Wheatstone

1802 - 1875
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Samuel Hahnemann

1755 - 1843
1820-1910, reformer of Army medical services and of nursing, British; English

Florence Nightingale

1820 - 1910
1820-1962, periodical and magazine, London

John Bull Magazine

1820 - 1962
1818-1984, lock and safe manufacturer, England, British

Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company Limited

1818 - 1984
1736-1819, mechanical engineer; scientist, Scottish; British

James Watt

1736 - 1819
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
1771-1831, mechanical engineer, tool maker & inventor; patentee English; British

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
1819-1999, submarine engineers, manufacturer of diving and breathing apparatus, United Kingdom

Siebe Gorman and Company Limited

1819 - 1999
Mr

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850
1819-1867, inventor; sewing machine pioneer, American

Elias Howe

1819 - 1867
1818-1889, physicist, English, British

James Prescott Joule

1818 - 1889
1810-c. 1960, poster printer; printer, Dunstable and London

Waterlow and Sons Limited

1810 - 1960
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

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

Hammond Turner and Sons Limited

1717 - 1955

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve

1793 - 1864
active 1749-1806, sundial maker; optical, mathematical, philosophical inst. maker & natural philosopher, British

Edward Nairne

1726 - 1806

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

George Jennings

1810 - 1882

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
1718-1807, physician; clergyman, English

Francis Willis

1718 - 1807
Mr

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
active 1826-1879, wax modeller, English; British

Joseph Towne

1806 - 1879
1799-1865, active 1812-1865, physician; army medical officer, English

James Barry

1789 - 1865
1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Walter Hancock

1799 - 1852
Mr

John Benjamin Dancer

1812 - 1887
1812-1887, journalist; author; playwright, British.

Henry Mayhew

1812 - 1887
1800-1970's?, button manufacturer, London

Jennens and Company Limited

1800
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

1789
1716-1774, lecturer and professor of anatomy, Italian

Anna Morandi Manzolini

1716 - 1774

August Wilhelm Hofmann

1818 - 1892

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

John Dalton

1766 - 1844