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active 1749-1806, sundial maker; optical, mathematical, philosophical inst. maker & natural philosopher, British

Edward Nairne

1726 - 1806
1724-1793, active 1754-1793, print seller; publisher; map seller, English

Carington Bowles

1724 - 1793
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

John Hunter

1728 - 1793
1722-1809, physician, Austrian

Josef Leopold Auenbrugger

1722 - 1809
1731-1793, natural philosopher (scientist), inventor, English, British

James Six

1731 - 1793
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810
1732-1797, compass manufacturer, Germany

Johann Christoph Voigtlander

1732 - 1797

Matthew Boulton

1728 - 1809
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Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792

Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810
bap. 1723, d. 1791; active 1747-1784, optician, Welsh; British

Francis Watkins

1723 - 1791
1725-1793, cartographer; hydrographer, French

Joseph Roux

1725 - 1793
1724-1792, medallist, Austrian

Anton Wideman

1724 - 1792
1720-1778, inventor of the spinning jenny, English

James Hargreaves

1720 - 1778
1723-1777, architect; interior decorator, English

Thomas Farnolls Pritchard

1723 - 1777
1727-1805, chemist, Irish

Peter Woulfe

1727 - 1805
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1728-1808, ironmaster; industrialist, English; British

John Wilkinson

1728 - 1808
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1731-1820, active from 1750, optical instrument maker, scientific instrument maker, British

Peter Dollond

1731 - 1820
1721-1793, physician; surgeon, English; British

John Mudge

1710 - 1793
active 1770s-1780s, marine chronometer maker; watchmaker, English; British

Josiah Emery

1725 - 1794

Joseph Black

1728 - 1799
active 1749-1783, mathematical instrument maker, Strand, London, England

Jeremiah Sisson

1720 - 1783
1728-1779, explorer, navigator; mariner; cartographer, English; British

James Cook

1728 - 1779
1727-1817, chemist; botanist, Dutch-born; Austrian

Nicolas Joseph Jacquin

1727 - 1817
1728-1809, mechanical engineer, manufacturer; entrepreneur, English; British

Matthew Boulton

1728 - 1809
1730-1819, artist; medallist, French

Pierre Simon Benjamin Duvivier

1730 - 1819
1726-1790, engineer; surveyor and founder of the Ordnance Survey, Scottish

William Roy

1726 - 1790
1729-1799, priest; physiologist; biologist, Italian

Lazzaro Spallanzani

1729 - 1799
1720-1789, transfer printer, English

John Sadler

1720 - 1789
1729-1798, mathematician; cartographer, English

Benjamin Donne

1729 - 1798
1724-1968, book publisher, London

Longman

1724 - 1968
1723-1792, artist; art theorist, English; British

Joshua Reynolds

1723 - 1792
1731-1815, banker; inventor, Scottish; British

Patrick Miller

1731 - 1815

Josiah Wedgwood

1730 - 1795
1730-1813, dentist; born Italy; naturalised British

Bartholomew Ruspini

1730 - 1813
1723-1781, apothecary; chemist, British

Alexander Dalmahoy

1723 - 1781

John Smalley

1728 - 1782

Jedediah Strutt

1729 - 1797
1729-1808, medallist, Dutch

Johann Georg Holtzhey

1729 - 1808
1866-1883, railway company, United Kingdom

Llynvi & Ogmore Railway

628 - 1883
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

John Opie

1705 - 1807
1730-1795, potter; manufacturer of ceramics, English; British

Josiah Wedgwood

1730 - 1795
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806
1728-1800, physician; surgeon; administrator, Italian

Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla

1728 - 1800
1732-1799, army officer; statesman; president of the United States, American

George Washington

1732 - 1799
1729-1814, physician; natural historian; economist, German

Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus

1729 - 1814
1720-1788, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Jacobite claimant to English, Irish and Scottish throne, Italian

Charles Edward Stuart

1720 - 1788