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1927-current (2007); manufacturer of electrical equipment

Crompton Parkinson Limited

1827

Arkwright, Richard

1732 - 1792
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Paxton, Joseph

1803 - 1865

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871

Scamp, William

1801 - 1872

Nightingale, Florence

1820 - 1910

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Lovelace, Ada

1815 - 1852
1843-1923, Railway company, Scotland

Caledonian Railway

1843 - 1923
1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

Morton, William Thomas Green

1819 - 1868
active 1828-1947, marine & aeronautical navigational instrument maker, London, England, British

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912
1844-1968, tobacco manufacturer, Spitalfields, London, England

Godfrey Phillips Limited

1844 - 1968

Cross, John Cartwright

1775 - 1810

Stephenson, George

1781 - 1848

Grover, Charles

1842 - 1902
1839-1932, shipping company, British

Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

1839 - 1932
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

Jennings, George

1810 - 1882
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Trevithick, Richard

1771 - 1833
1838-1907, chemist, English; British

Perkin, Sir William Henry

1838 - 1907
1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Hancock, Walter

1799 - 1852
1771-1862, physician, French

Bretonneau, Pierre

1771 - 1862
active 1829-1895, microbiologist; chemist, French

Pasteur, Louis

1822 - 1895
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Koch, Robert

1843 - 1910
1802-1956, distributor and manufacturer, Waterbury

Scovill Manufacturing Co

1802 - 1956
1844-1918, inventor, artist, France

Reynaud, Charles-Emile

1844 - 1918
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Kay, John

1704 - 1781

Meynell, Thomas

1763 - 1854

Hackworth, Timothy

1786 - 1850

Pease, Edward

1767 - 1858
1898-1915, magazine, English; British

The Girl's Realm

1811 - 1911
1769-1843, active from 1783, watchmaker; chronometer maker, English, son of John Arnold

Arnold, John Roger

1769 - 1843
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858
1785-1870, inventor; mathematician, French

Thomas, Charles Xavier

1785 - 1870
1833 - 1883, inventor; engineer, British; English

Vansittart, Henrietta

1833 - 1883
fl. 1780s-1819, inventor, British, United Kingdom

Lowndes, Francis

1819
1845-c1955, optical instrument, lens and camera makers, Germany

Emil Busch AG

1845
active 1890s?-1945, optical instrument maker, Jena, Germany

Carl Zeiss, Jena

1846
1810-c. 1960, poster printer; printer, Dunstable and London

Waterlow and Sons Limited

1810
1846-, iron founder, West Bromwich, England

Joseph and Jesse Siddons

1846
1800-1970's?, button manufacturer, London

Jennens and Company Limited

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

A and F Pears Limited

1789

Franklin, Benjamin

1706 - 1790

Maskelyne, Nevil

1732 - 1811

Buckland, Francis Trevelyan

1826 - 1880

Manby, George William

1765 - 1854