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

Dollond, Peter

1731 - 1820
c. 1735-1793, portrait painter; draughtsman, British

Davy, Robert

1735 - 1793
1728-1799, chemist; physician, French-born; Irish/British

Black, Joseph

1728 - 1799
comte de Chanteloup, 1756-1832, chemist; statesman, French

Chaptal, Jean-Antoine-Claude

1756 - 1832
1759-1806, clerk; aeronaut; balloonist, Italian

Lunardi, Vincenzo

1759 - 1806
1734-1797, artist; painter, English

Wright of Derby, Joseph

1734 - 1797
1759-1806, politcian, English

Pitt, William

1759 - 1806
active 1790s-1800s, journalist; writer; publisher, British

Heriot, John

1760 - 1833
1760-1818, botanist; taxonomist, Swedish

Swartz, Olof Peter

1760 - 1818
1728-1812, physician; naturalist, German

Bruckmann, Urban Friedrich Benedict

1728 - 1812
active 1739 - 1949, bell manufacturers, Cripplegate

J. Warner & Sons

1739 - 1949
1751-1820, judge; politician, English; British

Gibbs, Sir Vicary

1751 - 1820
1757-1834, aristocrat; military officer; marquis de Lafayette, French

Lafayette

1757 - 1834
1738-1820, artist, American

West, Benjamin

1738 - 1820
1730-1813, dentist; born Italy; naturalised British

Ruspini, Bartholomew

1730 - 1813
active 1739-1769, printmaker, London, England

Spilsbury, John

1739 - 1769
1749-1809, natural philosopher, Italian

Cavallo, Tiberius

1749 - 1809
1743-1792, mechanical engineer; blacksmith; millwright, American

Rumsey, James

1743 - 1791
1740-1800, ironmaster, British

Cort, Henry

1740 - 1800
1732-1811, astronomer; mathematician, English

Maskelyne, Nevil

1732 - 1811
1753-1827, inventor, English; British

Crompton, Samuel

1753 - 1827
1752-1788, history painter, English; British

Farington, George

1752 - 1705
1757-1834, engraver; etcher, British

Heath, James

1757 - 1834
1745-1799, balloon pioneer, French

Montgolfier, Jacques-Étienne

1745 - 1799
1759-1840, surgeon, Italian

Assalini, Paolo

1759 - 1840
1744-1832, optical, mathematical & nautical instrument maker, Paris, France

Lenoir, Etienne

1744 - 1832
1730-1799, physician; natural philosopher, Dutch

Ingenhousz, Jan

1730 - 1799
1748-1819, mathematician; geologist, British; Scottish

Playfair, John

1748 - 1819
1747-1792, Holy Roman Emperor from 1790-1792

Leopold II

1747 - 1792
1746-c. 1807, artist; painter; engraver, British

Townley, Charles

1746 - 1807
1749-1819, physician; chemist, Scottish, British

Rutherford, Daniel

1749 - 1819
1758-1838, shipwright; Surveyor of the Navy, English; British

Tucker, Joseph

1758 - 1811
1750-1789, ironmaster, British; English

Darby, Abraham

1750 - 1789
1760-1836, German nobility; physician, Austrian

Von Stifft, Andreas Joseph

1760 - 1836
1749-1824, engraver, English

Sharp, William

1749 - 1824
1752-1808, anatomist; surgeon, British

Sheldon, John

1752 - 1808
1744-1829, biologist, French

Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de

1744 - 1829
active 1753-1963, museum; research centre, London

British Museum (Natural History)

1753 - 1963
1742-1806, chemist; physician, French

Leblanc, Nicolas

1742 - 1806
1757-1823, artist; engraver; printmaker; draughtsman; architect, British; English

Tomkins, Charles

1757 - 1823
1751-1816, playwright; politician, Irish

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

1751 - 1816
1727-1788, artist; printmaker, British

Gainsborough, Thomas

1727 - 1788
1730-1809, sculptor, French

Pajou, Augustin

1730 - 1809
active 1788-1817, mathematical, philosophical (globes) & optical instrument maker, English; British

Adams, Dudley

1760 - 1830
1737-1798, physician; physicist, Italian

Galvani, Luigi

1737 - 1798
1732-1800, army general, constructed first balloon in India, French

Martin, Claude

1732 - 1800
1742-1823, writer, British

Combe, William

1742 - 1823
1743-1823, cleric; inventor of the power loom, English; British

Cartwright, Edmund

1743 - 1823
1758-1840, artist; painter; portraitist; landscapist; illustrator; engineer, Scottish; British

Nasmyth, Alexander

1758 - 1840
1750-1803, philosopher; physicist, Swiss

Argand, Ami

1750 - 1803