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

Edward Jenner

1749 - 1823
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
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

1754 - 1814
Mr

Edmund Cartwright

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

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

1743 - 1794
1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

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

Ami Argand

1750 - 1803
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
1759-1806, clerk; aeronaut; balloonist, Italian

Vincenzo Lunardi

1759 - 1806
active 1789-1825, optician nautical instrument and telescope maker, English; British

William Cary

1759 - 1825
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

William Reynolds

1758 - 1803
1750-1848, astronomer, German

Caroline Lucretia Herschel

1750 - 1848
1732-1797, compass manufacturer, Germany

Johann Christoph Voigtlander

1732 - 1797
1752-1834; inventor; French

Joseph Marie Jacquard

1752 - 1834

James Watt

1736 - 1819
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

John Joseph Merlin

1735 - 1803
1754-1839, engineer; inventor, British; Scottish

William Murdock

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

Abraham Bennet

1749 - 1799
1735-1819, medallist, German

Daniel Friedrich Loos

1735 - 1819
1738-1820, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 1760-1820

George

1738 - 1820

Andrew Vivian

1759 - 1842
1740-1812, artist; painter, French-born, British

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1740 - 1812
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810
1747-1809, engineer, English; British

Francis Thompson

1747 - 1809

Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810
1735-1800, active 1762-1800, mathematical instrument maker; optician; author, British; English

Jesse Ramsden

1735 - 1800
Sir

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792
1741-1799, physician; inventor of 'Perkins Tractors', American

Elisha Perkins

1741 - 1799
active 1765-1805, optical instrument maker, English; British

Charles Lincoln

1744 - 1807

John Curr

1756 - 1823
1757-1831, naval architect; mechanical engineer; inventor, English, British

Samuel Bentham

1757 - 1831
1750-1795, [Adams the Younger] active 1772-1795, mathematical instrument maker; globe maker, English; British

George Adams

1750 - 1795
1749-1829, chronometer maker; watchmaker, English; British

Thomas Earnshaw

1749 - 1829
1758-1828, anatomist; physiologist; phrenologist, German

Franz Joseph Gall

1758 - 1828
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1737-1809, author; revolutionary; bridge engineer, British; English

Thomas Paine

1737 - 1809
active 1748-1859, surgical instrument maker; cutler, Edinburgh, Scotland

Boog

1748 - 1859

William Bayly

1737 - 1810
1740-1814, medallist, German

Johann Christian Reich

1740 - 1814
1746-1814, civil engineer, British

Jessop, William

1746 - 1814
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1735 or 1736-1799, active 1762-1796, watchmaker; chronometer maker, British, English

John Arnold

1735 - 1799

Alessandro Volta

1745 - 1827
1756-1827, physicist; inventor, German

Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni

1756 - 1827