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

Edward Jenner

1749 - 1823
1736-1819, mechanical engineer; scientist, Scottish; British

James Watt

1736 - 1819
1749-1978, hospital, English

Liverpool Royal Infirmary

1749 - 1978
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Samuel Hahnemann

1755 - 1843
active 1739 - 1949, bell manufacturers, Cripplegate

J. Warner & Sons

1739 - 1949
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

1754 - 1814

James Watt

1736 - 1819
Mr

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
active 1749-1806, sundial maker; optical, mathematical, philosophical inst. maker & natural philosopher, British

Edward Nairne

1726 - 1806
1743-1794, chemist & chemical pioneer, French

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

1743 - 1794
1759-present, engineering company, Dowlais

Guest Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd

1759
1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975
1724-1793, active 1754-1793, print seller; publisher; map seller, English

Carington Bowles

1724 - 1793
1750-1803, philosopher; physicist, Swiss

Ami Argand

1750 - 1803

William Farish

1759 - 1837
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792
1738-1822, musician and astronomer, German born; naturalised British

William Herschel

1738 - 1822
active 1789-1825, optician nautical instrument and telescope maker, English; British

William Cary

1759 - 1825
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

John Hunter

1728 - 1793
1759-1806, clerk; aeronaut; balloonist, Italian

Vincenzo Lunardi

1759 - 1806
1722-1809, physician, Austrian

Josef Leopold Auenbrugger

1722 - 1809

William Reynolds

1758 - 1803
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810
1731-1793, natural philosopher (scientist), inventor, English, British

James Six

1731 - 1793
active 1788-1817, mathematical, philosophical (globes) & optical instrument maker, English; British

Dudley Adams

1760 - 1830
1750-1848, astronomer, German

Caroline Lucretia Herschel

1750 - 1848
1732-1797, compass manufacturer, Germany

Johann Christoph Voigtlander

1732 - 1797

Matthew Boulton

1728 - 1809
1752-1834; inventor; French

Joseph Marie Jacquard

1752 - 1834
Sir

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792

Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

John Joseph Merlin

1735 - 1803
1735-1819, medallist, German

Daniel Friedrich Loos

1735 - 1819
1738-1820, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 1760-1820

George

1738 - 1820
bap. 1723, d. 1791; active 1747-1784, optician, Welsh; British

Francis Watkins

1723 - 1791
1754-1839, engineer; inventor, British; Scottish

William Murdock

1754 - 1839
1749-1799, clergyman; natural philosopher, English; British

Abraham Bennet

1749 - 1799
1724-1792, medallist, Austrian

Anton Wideman

1724 - 1792
1725-1793, cartographer; hydrographer, French

Joseph Roux

1725 - 1793

Alessandro Volta

1745 - 1827

John Curr

1756 - 1823
1720-1778, inventor of the spinning jenny, English

James Hargreaves

1720 - 1778
1740-1812, artist; painter, French-born, British

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1740 - 1812

Andrew Vivian

1759 - 1842
1757-1831, naval architect; mechanical engineer; inventor, English, British

Samuel Bentham

1757 - 1831
1735-1800, active 1762-1800, mathematical instrument maker; optician; author, British; English

Jesse Ramsden

1735 - 1800
1741-1799, physician; inventor of 'Perkins Tractors', American

Elisha Perkins

1741 - 1799
active 1765-1805, optical instrument maker, English; British

Charles Lincoln

1744 - 1807
1749-1829, chronometer maker; watchmaker, English; British

Thomas Earnshaw

1749 - 1829
1723-1777, architect; interior decorator, English

Thomas Farnolls Pritchard

1723 - 1777