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Walker, John

1781 - 1859
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

Jennings, George

1810 - 1882
1785-1861, engineer; millwright, English; British

Cubitt, Sir William

1785 - 1861

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Bate, Robert Brettell

1782 - 1847

Stephenson, George

1781 - 1848
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

Merlin, John Joseph

1735 - 1803
1792-1851, inventor of ticket-printing machinery, British

Edmondson, Thomas

1792 - 1851
1823-1834, scientific instrument maker, Edinburgh, Scotland

Adie, Alexander

1775 - 1204
1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975
1785-1851, artist; naturalist; ornithologist, American

Audubon, John James

1785 - 1851
1729-1777, [nicknamed the Macaroni Parson] Church of England clergyman; forger, British

Dodd, William

1729 - 1777
1788-1863, cleric; writer; photographer; traveller, British

Bridges, George Wilson

1788 - 1863
1797-1867, photographer, French

Claudet, Antoine

1797 - 1867
1794-1874, civil engineer, England, British

Rennie, Sir John

1794 - 1874
1802-1875, pioneer of telegraphy, scientist and contributor to optics, English; British

Wheatstone, Sir Charles

1802 - 1875
1788-1873, inventor of the electric telegraph; meteorologist, British; English

Ronalds, Sir Francis

1788 - 1873
1800-1877, pioneer of photography; photographer, English; British

Talbot, William Henry Fox

1800 - 1877
active 1789-1825, optician nautical instrument and telescope maker, English; British

Cary, William

1759 - 1825
1794-1873, pharmacist; botanist, French born; American

Durand, Elias

1794 - 1873
1810-1882, photographer, British; Welsh

Llewelyn, John Dillwyn

1810 - 1882
1794-1863, civil engineer, British

Lewin, William

1794 - 1863
1765-1821, medical lecturer, British?

Wilson, James

1765 - 1821
1799-1859, mathematician; writer, British

Grant, Horace

1799 - 1859
1784-1863, naval officer; ship designer; politician, English; British

Elliot, George

1784 - 1863
1778-1823, mechanical engineer, American

Dod, Daniel

1778 - 1823
c. 1732-1799, drew and later revised an engineering plan for the River Thames, 1770-1774

Whitworth, Robert

1732 - 1799
1772-1844, naturalist, French

Saint-Hilaire, Etienne Geoffroy

1772 - 1844
1806-1863, naturalist; geologist; author; teacher, French

Boubee, Neree

1806 - 1863
1793-1850, architect; engineer, Scottish; British

Handyside, William

1793 - 1850
active 1757-1809, shipbuilder, Sweden, Swedish

Chapman, Fredrik Henrik

1721 - 1808
1810-1896, photographer, Scottish; British

Collie, William

1810 - 1896
1805-1883, naval officer; inventor; pantetee; engineer; surveyor, English; British

Peacock, George

1805 - 1883
1808-1881, active 1840s, analysing lead mining in Derbyshire, British

Taylor, John

1808 - 1881
1781-1840, mathematician; geometer; physicist, French

Poisson, Siméon-Denis

1781 - 1840
1809-1879, barrister, photographer, secretary of the Society of Arts, British

Foster, Peter Le Neve

1809 - 1879
1773-c1876

British Cast Plate Glass Company

1773 - 1876
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Woltman, Reinhard

1712 - 1837
1795-1864, sculptor, British

Behnes, William

1795 - 1864
1710-1777, printmaker; engraver, French born; active England

Canot, Pierre-Charles

1710 - 1777
1749-1836, engraver; cartographer, British; English

Faden, William

1749 - 1836
1798-1827, geographer; draughtsman, French

Hebert, Louis

1798 - 1827
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823
active, 1812-1856, optical, mathematical, philosophical & nautical inst. maker & optician, British

Newman, John Frederick

1783 - 1860

Marenholtz-Bülow, Bertha von

1810 - 1893

Eardley-Wilmot, John Eardley

1810 - 1892
1713-1784, encyclopaedist, French

Diderot, Denis

1713 - 1784
1790-1878, inventor; Church of Scotland minister/clergyman, Scottish; British

Stirling, Robert

1790 - 1878
1768-1852, maker of clocks, watches, and nautical instruments, London, England

Massey, Edward

1768 - 1852