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

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792
1736-1819, mechanical engineer; scientist, Scottish; British

James Watt

1736 - 1819
1735 or 1736-1799, active 1762-1796, watchmaker; chronometer maker, British, English

John Arnold

1735 - 1799
1713-1784, encyclopaedist, French

Denis Diderot

1713 - 1784
1710-1777, printmaker; engraver, French born; active England

Pierre-Charles Canot

1710 - 1777
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1724-1792, medallist, Austrian

Anton Wideman

1724 - 1792
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Reinhard Woltman

1712 - 1837
1736-1818, traveller, author, Scottish, British

Patrick Brydone

1736 - 1818
1737-1802

Thomas Williams

1737 - 1802
active 1760s-1790s, clock and watchmaker, Swiss; British

Justin Vulliamy

1712 - 1797
1710-1767, 10th Earl of Buchan; draughtsman; engraver, Scottish

Henry David Erskine

1710 - 1767
1737-1816, politician, chemist, lawyer, French

Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau

1737 - 1816
1736-1806, mechanical engineer; mathematician, French

Charles Augustin Coulomb

1736 - 1806
bap. 1731, d. 1817, engraver, English

Robert Hancock

1731 - 1817
1729-1798, mathematician; cartographer, English

Benjamin Donne

1729 - 1798
1730-1774?, physician; French

Le Thieullier, Louis Pierre Felix Rene

1730 - 1774
1720-1778, inventor of the spinning jenny, English

James Hargreaves

1720 - 1778
1738-1809, bookseller, British

Joseph Johnson

1738 - 1809
c1739-1790, engraver, Irish, British

James Watson

1739 - 1790
1731-1792, active 1760s-1770s, medallist, German? Polish?

Johann Philip Holzhaeusser

1731 - 1792
active 1757-1809, shipbuilder, Sweden, Swedish

Chapman, Fredrik Henrik

1721 - 1808
1739/40-1817, aeronaut; military theorist; army officer, English

John Money

1739 - 1817
1724-1792, civil engineer, English

John Smeaton

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

Thomas Hills Everitt

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

James Hutton

1715 - 1795
1728-1808, ironmaster; industrialist, English; British

John Wilkinson

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

Christopher Pinchbeck

1709 - 1783
1709-1780, landscape engraver, French-born; British

Francis Vivares

1709 - 1780
active 1735-1790, chronometer maker; watchmaker, London, England

Larcum Kendall

1719 - 1790
1729-1799, priest; physiologist; biologist, Italian

Lazzaro Spallanzani

1729 - 1799
1705-1779, portrait artist, Swedish

Fredrik Brander

1705 - 1779
1713-1772, physician; inventor of geomagnetic instruments, English

Gowin Knight

1713 - 1772
1723-1777, architect; interior decorator, English

Thomas Farnolls Pritchard

1723 - 1777
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

John Joseph Merlin

1735 - 1803
1716-1781, physicist, Italian

Giambatista Beccaria

1716 - 1781
1704-1764, clock maker (NOT the inventor of the the flying shuttle), English

John Kay

1704 - 1764
1717-1799, Roman Catholic Pope 1775-1799, Italian

Pius

1717 - 1799
1721-1788, artist; painter, British

Benjamin Wilson

1721 - 1788
1739-1812, printer, British

John Walter

1739 - 1812
1726-1790, engineer; surveyor and founder of the Ordnance Survey, Scottish

William Roy

1726 - 1790
1728-1800, physician; surgeon; administrator, Italian

Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla

1728 - 1800
1703-1772, itinerant oculist, English

John Taylor

1703 - 1772
1734-1811, artist; painter; politician, English; British

Nathaniel Dance

1734 - 1811
1736-1790, mineralogist, French

Jean-Baptiste Louis Romé de

1736 - 1790
1724-1793, active 1754-1793, print seller; publisher; map seller, English

Carington Bowles

1724 - 1793
1736/7-1805, decorative artist, British; English

Francis Eginton

1736 - 1805
1722-1765, discoverer of tungsten; mineralogist; chemist, Swedish

Axel Fredrik Cronstedt

1722 - 1765
1724-1968, book publisher, London

Longman

1724 - 1968
1723-1798, architect; draughtsman, English; British

Thomas Sandby

1723 - 1798