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

Edward Jenner

1749 - 1823
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
1749-1978, hospital, English

Liverpool Royal Infirmary

1749 - 1978
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Samuel Hahnemann

1755 - 1843
1736-1819, mechanical engineer; scientist, Scottish; British

James Watt

1736 - 1819
1771-1831, mechanical engineer, tool maker & inventor; patentee English; British

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

1754 - 1814
active 1749-1806, sundial maker; optical, mathematical, philosophical inst. maker & natural philosopher, British

Edward Nairne

1726 - 1806

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
Mr

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

John Dalton

1766 - 1844
1743-1794, chemist & chemical pioneer, French

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

1743 - 1794
Sir

George Cayley

1773 - 1857
active 1739 - 1949, bell manufacturers, Cripplegate

J. Warner & Sons

1739 - 1949
Sir

Marc Isambard Brunel

1769 - 1849
1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975
1764-1834, active 1791-1830, publisher, London, England

Ackermann and Company

1764 - 1834
1750-1803, philosopher; physicist, Swiss

Ami Argand

1750 - 1803
Mr

John Dalton

1766 - 1844

William Hyde Wollaston

1766 - 1828
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792

William Farish

1759 - 1837
1738-1822, musician and astronomer, German born; naturalised British

William Herschel

1738 - 1822
1771-1802, physician; anatomist; physiologist, French

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

1771 - 1802
Mr

Thomas Meynell

1763 - 1854
active 1789-1825, optician nautical instrument and telescope maker, English; British

William Cary

1759 - 1825
active 1806-1861, scientific instrument maker, British; English

Thomas Jones

1775 - 1852
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

John Hunter

1728 - 1793

Edward Pease

1767 - 1858
1759-1806, clerk; aeronaut; balloonist, Italian

Vincenzo Lunardi

1759 - 1806

James Watt

1736 - 1819
1759-present, engineering company, Dowlais

Guest Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd

1759

William Reynolds

1758 - 1803
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
1772-1864, manufacturing chemist; meteorologist, British

Luke Howard

1772 - 1864

Davies Gilbert

1767 - 1839

Luke Howard

1772 - 1864
1752-1834; inventor; French

Joseph Marie Jacquard

1752 - 1834

Simon Goodrich

1773 - 1847
1774-1969, button makers, Birmingham

William Dowler & Sons Limited

1774 - 1969

Rudolph Ackermann

1764 - 1834
1735-1819, medallist, German

Daniel Friedrich Loos

1735 - 1819
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

John Joseph Merlin

1735 - 1803
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810

Matthew Boulton

1728 - 1809
1754-1839, engineer; inventor, British; Scottish

William Murdock

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

Abraham Bennet

1749 - 1799