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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
1743/4-1789, wife of John Arnold, mother of John Roger Arnold, chronometer makers, English

Margaret Arnold

1743 - 1789
1735 or 1736-1799, active 1762-1796, watchmaker; chronometer maker, British, English

John Arnold

1735 - 1799
1755-1824, King of France and Navarre, 1815-1824

Louis XVIII

1755 - 1824
1756-1836, monarch, king of France

Charles

1756 - 1836
1713-1784, encyclopaedist, French

Denis Diderot

1713 - 1784
active 1770s-1790s, clockmaker; watchmaker, British

Benjamin Vulliamy

1747 - 1811
1756-1823, colliery manager, English; British

John Curr

1756 - 1823
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

1754 - 1814
1710-1777, printmaker; engraver, French born; active England

Pierre-Charles Canot

1710 - 1777
1749-1806, engraver, British

Francis Chesham

1749 - 1806
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1724-1792, medallist, Austrian

Anton Wideman

1724 - 1792
1748-1808, clock and watchmaker, London, England, British

George Margetts

1748 - 1808
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Reinhard Woltman

1712 - 1837
1754-1811, engraver, French

Gilles Louis Chrétien

1754 - 1811
1736-1818, traveller, author, Scottish, British

Patrick Brydone

1736 - 1818
1737-1802

Thomas Williams

1737 - 1802
1749-1799, clergyman; natural philosopher, English; British

Abraham Bennet

1749 - 1799
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
1753-1809, aeronaut; balloonist, French

Jean Pierre François Blanchard

1753 - 1809
1736-1806, mechanical engineer; mathematician, French

Charles Augustin Coulomb

1736 - 1806
1742-1821, artist; collector, English; British

Richard Cosway

1742 - 1821
bap. 1731, d. 1817, engraver, English

Robert Hancock

1731 - 1817
1756-1827, physicist; inventor, German

Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni

1756 - 1827
1729-1798, mathematician; cartographer, English

Benjamin Donne

1729 - 1798
1730-1774?, physician; French

Le Thieullier, Louis Pierre Felix Rene

1730 - 1774
1747-1825, medal maker, French

Vivant Denon

1747 - 1825
1720-1778, inventor of the spinning jenny, English

James Hargreaves

1720 - 1778
1755-1816, engraver; artist; draughtsman, Swedish

Johann Frederik Martin

1755 - 1816
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
1749-1834, physician, Scottish

Gilbert Blane

1749 - 1834
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
1756-1823, artist; portraitist, Scottish; British

Henry Raeburn

1756 - 1823
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1755-1839, mathematician; engineer, French

Gaspard de Prony

1755 - 1839
1715-1795, Moravian minister; bookseller, English; British

James Hutton

1715 - 1795
1750-1813, engineer; inventor of the extinguisher pump/lift pump, German

Carl Emanuel Löscher

1750 - 1813
1748-1827, engraver, British

Thomas Holloway

1748 - 1827
1745-1830, mechanician, clock-maker, Swiss

Henri Maillardet

1745 - 1830
1728-1808, ironmaster; industrialist, English; British

John Wilkinson

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

Christopher Pinchbeck

1709 - 1783
c. 1741-1793?, portraitist, British

Cunningham, Edward Francis

1741 - 1793