Industry
Place
Organisation / Person
Date (born / died)
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792

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

James Watt

1736 - 1819

1743/4-1789, wife of John Arnold, mother of John Roger Arnold, chronometer makers, English

Margaret Arnold

1743 - 1789

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

John Arnold

1735 - 1799

active 1770s-1790s, clockmaker; watchmaker, British

Benjamin Vulliamy

1747 - 1811

1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883

1748-1808, clock and watchmaker, London, England, British

George Margetts

1748 - 1808

1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Reinhard Woltman

1712 - 1837

1736-1818, traveller, author, Scottish, British

Patrick Brydone

1736 - 1818

1737-1802

Thomas Williams

1737 - 1802

1737-1816, politician, chemist, lawyer, French

Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau

1737 - 1816

1736-1806, mechanical engineer; mathematician, French

Charles Augustin Coulomb

1736 - 1806

1742-1821, artist; collector, English; British

Richard Cosway

1742 - 1821

bap. 1731, d. 1817, engraver, English

Robert Hancock

1731 - 1817

1730-1774?, physician; French

Le Thieullier, Louis Pierre Felix Rene

1730 - 1774

1747-1825, medal maker, French

Vivant Denon

1747 - 1825

1738-1809, bookseller, British

Joseph Johnson

1738 - 1809

c1739-1790, engraver, Irish, British

James Watson

1739 - 1790

1731-1792, active 1760s-1770s, medallist, German? Polish?

Johann Philip Holzhaeusser

1731 - 1792

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

John Money

1739 - 1817

1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780

1748-1827, engraver, British

Thomas Holloway

1748 - 1827

1745-1830, mechanician, clock-maker, Swiss

Henri Maillardet

1745 - 1830

c. 1741-1793?, portraitist, British

Cunningham, Edward Francis

1741 - 1793

1745-1798, portrait painter; artist, German

Karl Anton Hickel

1745 - 1798

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

John Joseph Merlin

1735 - 1803

1747-1832, physician; surgeon, Italian

Giovanni Battista Palletta

1747 - 1832

1739-1812, printer, British

John Walter

1739 - 1812

1741-1832, physician, French

Antoine Portal

1741 - 1832

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

Nathaniel Dance

1734 - 1811

1744-1818, architect; artist; landscape designer; engineer, French

Francois Joseph Belanger

1744 - 1818

1736-1790, mineralogist, French

Jean-Baptiste Louis Romé de

1736 - 1790

1736/7-1805, decorative artist, British; English

Francis Eginton

1736 - 1805

1741-1828, sculptor, French

Jean-Antoine Houdon

1741 - 1828

1740-1814, medallist, German

Johann Christian Reich

1740 - 1814

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

Elisha Perkins

1741 - 1799

1741-1819, geologist; sponsor, French

Barthélémy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond

1741 - 1819

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

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1740 - 1812

active 1748-1859, surgical instrument maker; cutler, Edinburgh, Scotland

Boog

1748 - 1859

1745-1812, aquatint engraver, English

Francis Jukes

1745 - 1812

1742-1826, portrait etcher; miniature painter, Scottish

John Kay

1742 - 1826

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

James Six

1731 - 1793

c. 1732-1799, drew and later revised an engineering plan for the River Thames, 1770-1774

Robert Whitworth

1732 - 1799

1735-1784, chemist; naturalist, Swedish

Torbern Olof Bergman

1735 - 1784

1748-1822, chemist; Savoyard French

Claude-Louis Berthollet

1748 - 1822

1791-1870, physician, Scottish, British

James Copland

1711 - 1870

1740-1813, typographer; type-designer; printer; publisher, Italian

Giambattista Bodonius

1740 - 1813

1744-1819, physician; balloonist; aeronaut, American

John Jeffries

1744 - 1819

1746-1818, priest; educational reformer, French

Aloisius Edouard Camille Gaultier

1745 - 1818

1748-1832, philosopher; jurist; reformer, English

Jeremy Bentham

1748 - 1832