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Alexander Parkes

1813 - 1890
1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

William Thomas Green Morton

1819 - 1868

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis

1818 - 1865
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

James Phipps

1788 - 1853
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Ada Lovelace

1815 - 1852
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Edward Jenner

1749 - 1823
active 1829-1895, microbiologist; chemist, French

Louis Pasteur

1822 - 1895

John Walker

1781 - 1859
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Edwin Chadwick

1800 - 1890
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901
1813-1979, manufacturer, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, British

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979
Mr

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

John Snow

1813 - 1858
1736-1819, mechanical engineer; scientist, Scottish; British

James Watt

1736 - 1819

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

1806 - 1859
1799-1871, botanist; photographic artist, British

Anna Atkins

1799 - 1871
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
1825-about 1980s, manufacturer, West Bromwich, Sandwell, West Midlands, England, British

George Salter and Company

1825 - 1990
Sir

Charles Wheatstone

1802 - 1875
1820-1910, reformer of Army medical services and of nursing, British; English

Florence Nightingale

1820 - 1910
1749-1978, hospital, English

Liverpool Royal Infirmary

1749 - 1978

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve

1793 - 1864
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Samuel Hahnemann

1755 - 1843
active 1818-1856, optician, optical, mathematical & philosophical instrument maker, London, England

Watkins & Hill

1818 - 1856
1818-1984, lock and safe manufacturer, England, British

Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company Limited

1818 - 1984
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
1820-1962, periodical and magazine, London

John Bull Magazine

1820 - 1962
1771-1831, mechanical engineer, tool maker & inventor; patentee English; British

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
active 1739 - 1949, bell manufacturers, Cripplegate

J. Warner & Sons

1739 - 1949
1819-1999, submarine engineers, manufacturer of diving and breathing apparatus, United Kingdom

Siebe Gorman and Company Limited

1819 - 1999
1818-1889, physicist, English, British

James Prescott Joule

1818 - 1889
Mr

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850
1810-c. 1960, poster printer; printer, Dunstable and London

Waterlow and Sons Limited

1810 - 1960
1819-1867, inventor; sewing machine pioneer, American

Elias Howe

1819 - 1867
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

1754 - 1814
1823-2000 , wire rope maker; telegraph cable maker, Cologne, Germany

Felten & Guilleaume Kabelwerke GmbH

1823 - 2000
1822-1911, biostatistician, human geneticist & eugenicist, English, British

Francis Galton

1822 - 1911
1806-1992, silversmiths, platers and metal workers, Sheffield

James Dixon & Sons

1806 - 1992

James Watt

1736 - 1819
Mr

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

George Jennings

1810 - 1882

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
active 1749-1806, sundial maker; optical, mathematical, philosophical inst. maker & natural philosopher, British

Edward Nairne

1726 - 1806
Mr

James Mudd

1821 - 1906
1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Walter Hancock

1799 - 1852
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

John Dalton

1766 - 1844
1799-1865, active 1812-1865, physician; army medical officer, English

James Barry

1789 - 1865
Mr

John Benjamin Dancer

1812 - 1887