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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
active 1739 - 1949, bell manufacturers, Cripplegate

J. Warner & Sons

1739 - 1949
Mr

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
1743-1794, chemist & chemical pioneer, French

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

1743 - 1794

James Watt

1736 - 1819
1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975
1750-1803, philosopher; physicist, Swiss

Ami Argand

1750 - 1803
1738-1822, musician and astronomer, German born; naturalised British

William Herschel

1738 - 1822
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792
1731-1793, natural philosopher (scientist), inventor, English, British

James Six

1731 - 1793
1750-1848, astronomer, German

Caroline Lucretia Herschel

1750 - 1848
1732-1797, compass manufacturer, Germany

Johann Christoph Voigtlander

1732 - 1797
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810
Sir

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

John Joseph Merlin

1735 - 1803
1735-1819, medallist, German

Daniel Friedrich Loos

1735 - 1819
1749-1799, clergyman; natural philosopher, English; British

Abraham Bennet

1749 - 1799

Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810
1738-1820, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 1760-1820

George

1738 - 1820
1740-1812, artist; painter, French-born, British

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1740 - 1812
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

Alessandro Volta

1745 - 1827

William Bayly

1737 - 1810
1749-1829, chronometer maker; watchmaker, English; British

Thomas Earnshaw

1749 - 1829
1737-1809, author; revolutionary; bridge engineer, British; English

Thomas Paine

1737 - 1809
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
active 1748-1859, surgical instrument maker; cutler, Edinburgh, Scotland

Boog

1748 - 1859
1746-1814, civil engineer, British

Jessop, William

1746 - 1814
1743-1823, cleric; inventor of the power loom, English; British

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1740-1814, medallist, German

Johann Christian Reich

1740 - 1814
1731-1820, active from 1750, optical instrument maker, scientific instrument maker, British

Peter Dollond

1731 - 1820
1744-1832, optical, mathematical & nautical instrument maker, Paris, France

Etienne Lenoir

1744 - 1832
1735 or 1736-1799, active 1762-1796, watchmaker; chronometer maker, British, English

John Arnold

1735 - 1799
1743-1820, explorer; naturalist; patron of science, British

Joseph Banks

1743 - 1820
1734-1797, artist; painter, English

Joseph Wright of

1734 - 1797
1746-1823, medallist; mechanical engineer, Swiss

Jean Pierre Droz

1746 - 1823
active 1770s-1790s, shoemaker; bookseller; publisher, English; British

James Lackington

1746 - 1815
1745-1830, mechanician, clock-maker, Swiss

Henri Maillardet

1745 - 1830
c. 1739-1807, active 1768-1788, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

John Troughton

1739 - 1807
c. 1745-1814?; active 1778-1814, print seller; publisher, British; English

Hannah Humphrey

1742 - 1814
1740-(current 2015), silk weavers, Sudbury, England

Vanners Silk Weavers

1740
1751-1820, vice-admiral in the Royal Navy, British

Admiral Richard Grindall

1751 - 1820
active 1734-1795, either Adams, George, 1709-1772 or Adams, George, 1750-1795, sci. instrument maker

George Adams

1734 - 1795

John Joseph Merlin

1735 - 1803
1734-1815, physician; astrologist, German

Franz Anton Mesmer

1734 - 1815