Search our collection

Clear all filters
Occupation
Place born
Organisation / Person
Date (born / died)
1724-1793, active 1754-1793, print seller; publisher; map seller, English

Bowles, Carington

1724 - 1793
1750-1848, astronomer, German

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia

1750 - 1848
1739/40-1817, aeronaut; military theorist; army officer, English

Money, John

1739 - 1817
1737-1828, physician; inventor of an aerated water apparatus, British

Nooth, Dr John Mervyn

1737 - 1828
1758-1840, physician; astronomer, German

Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias

1758 - 1840
1737-1802

Williams, Thomas

1737 - 1802
1758-1828, millwright, French

Brezin, Michel

1758 - 1828
1756-1823, artist; portraitist, Scottish; British

Raeburn, Sir Henry

1756 - 1823
1724-1792, civil engineer, English

Smeaton, John

1724 - 1792
1749-1799, clergyman; natural philosopher, English; British

Bennet, Abraham

1749 - 1799
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1743-1820, explorer; naturalist; patron of science, British

Banks, Sir Joseph

1743 - 1820
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Cavendish, Henry

1731 - 1810
1750-1813, engineer; inventor of the extinguisher pump/lift pump, German

Löscher, Carl Emanuel

1750 - 1813
1763-1851, hospital, English; British

Inoculation Hospital, St Pancras

1763 - 1851
1759-1842, mechanical engineer, English; British

Vivian, Andrew

1759 - 1842
1757-1834, civil engineer, Scottish; British

Telford, Thomas

1757 - 1834
1763-1805, engineer; cleric, French

Chappe, Claude

1763 - 1805
1728-1808, ironmaster; industrialist, English; British

Wilkinson, John

1728 - 1808
1753-1835, active, 1804-1826, optician & mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Troughton, Edward

1753 - 1835
1727-1805, chemist, Irish

Woulfe, Peter

1727 - 1805
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Arkwright, Sir Richard

1732 - 1792
1752-1817, artist; publisher, Welsh; British

Boydell, Josiah

1752 - 1817
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

Hunter, John

1728 - 1793
1753-1828, artist; engraver; writer, British; English

Bewick, Thomas

1753 - 1828
1745-1798, portrait painter; artist, German

Hickel, Karl Anton

1745 - 1798
bap. 1753, d. 1828, aeronaut; balloonist; chemist, English

Sadler, James

1753 - 1828
1729-1799, priest; physiologist; biologist, Italian

Spallanzani, Lazzaro

1729 - 1799
1735 or 1736-1799, active 1762-1796, watchmaker; chronometer maker, British, English

Arnold, John

1735 - 1799
1755-1830, physician; anatomist; atropologist; paleontologist; inventor, German

Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas von

1755 - 1830
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

Opie, John

1705 - 1807
1736-1806, mechanical engineer; mathematician, French

Coulomb, Charles Augustin

1736 - 1806
1759-1805, poet; dramatist, German

Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von

1759 - 1805
1742-1821, artist; collector, English; British

Cosway, Richard

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

Hancock, Robert

1731 - 1817
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Hahnemann, Samuel

1755 - 1843
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

Merlin, John Joseph

1735 - 1803
1756-1827, physicist; inventor, German

Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich

1756 - 1827
1740-1810, balloon pioneer, French

Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel

1740 - 1810
1730-1774?, physician; French

Le Thieullier, Louis Pierre Felix Rene

1730 - 1774
1758-1802, engraver, English; British

Thew, Robert

1758 - 1807
1763-1823, painter; portraitist; history painter, British

Artaud, William

1763 - 1823
1741-1790, Holy Roman Emperor, Austrian

Joseph II

1741 - 1790
1734-1815, physician; astrologist, German

Mesmer, Franz Anton

1734 - 1815
1720-1778, inventor of the spinning jenny, English

Hargreaves, James

1720 - 1778
1762-1836, physician; founder of macrobiotics; professor at Berlin University, German

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

1762 - 1836
1734-1811, artist; painter; politician, English; British

Dance, Nathaniel

1734 - 1811
1749-1829, chronometer maker; watchmaker, English; British

Earnshaw, Thomas

1749 - 1829
1751-1802, sculptor, Italian

Ceracchi, Giuseppe

1751 - 1802
1757-1827, artist; painter; illustrator; caricaturist; watercolourist, English; British

Rowlandson, Thomas

1757 - 1827