Search our collection

Clear all filters
Occupation
Place born
Organisation / Person
Date (born / died)

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
1785-1870, inventor; mathematician, French

Thomas, Charles Xavier

1785 - 1870
1794-1873, pharmacist; botanist, French born; American

Durand, Elias

1794 - 1873
1794-1863, civil engineer, British

Lewin, William

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

Wilson, James

1765 - 1821
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
1793-1850, architect; engineer, Scottish; British

Handyside, William

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

Chapman, Fredrik Henrik

1721 - 1808
1781-1840, mathematician; geometer; physicist, French

Poisson, Siméon-Denis

1781 - 1840
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
1749-1836, engraver; cartographer, British; English

Faden, William

1749 - 1836
active, 1812-1856, optical, mathematical, philosophical & nautical inst. maker & optician, British

Newman, John Frederick

1783 - 1860

Maskelyne, Nevil

1732 - 1811

Manby, George William

1765 - 1854

Guizot, Francoise Pierre Guillaume

1787 - 1874

Herschel, William

1738 - 1822

Cross, John Cartwright

1775 - 1810

Wilson, James

1765 - 1821

Durand, Elias

1794 - 1873

Greville, Robert Kaye

1794 - 1866

Walker, James

1781 - 1862

Hunter, William

1718 - 1783

Henson, Gravener

1785 - 1852

Brunel, Marc Isambard

1769 - 1849

Bakewell, Robert

1768 - 1843

Cooper, Astley Paston (first baronet)

1768 - 1841

Howard, Luke

1772 - 1864

Arkwright, Richard

1732 - 1792

Guillan, Archibald

1790 - 1891

Scoresby, William

1789 - 1857

Martin, Kennett Beacham

1788 - 1859

Rennie, John

1794 - 1863

Ewart, Peter

1767 - 1843

Telford, Thomas

1757 - 1834

Sibley, Robert

1789 - 1849

Havell, Robert (senior)

1769 - 1832

Baillie, Matthew

1761 - 1823

Pickering, George

1794 - 1857

Rastrick, John Urpeth

1780 - 1856

Cobb, James

1756 - 1818

Reynolds, William

1758 - 1803

Stovin, Frederick

1783 - 1865

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795