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Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

James Phipps

1788 - 1853
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Edward Jenner

1749 - 1823

John Walker

1781 - 1859
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901
Mr

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
1799-1871, botanist; photographic artist, British

Anna Atkins

1799 - 1871
1749-1978, hospital, English

Liverpool Royal Infirmary

1749 - 1978
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Samuel Hahnemann

1755 - 1843
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
1736-1819, mechanical engineer; scientist, Scottish; British

James Watt

1736 - 1819
1771-1831, mechanical engineer, tool maker & inventor; patentee English; British

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
Mr

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

1754 - 1814

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve

1793 - 1864
Mr

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
1799-1865, active 1812-1865, physician; army medical officer, English

James Barry

1789 - 1865
1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Walter Hancock

1799 - 1852
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

1789
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

John Dalton

1766 - 1844
1743-1794, chemist & chemical pioneer, French

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

1743 - 1794
1794-1992, dispensing chemist; druggist, London, England

Savory and Moore Limited

1794 - 1992

Richard Roberts

1789 - 1864
Sir

George Cayley

1773 - 1857
Sir

Marc Isambard Brunel

1769 - 1849
1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975
1792-1851, inventor of ticket-printing machinery, British

Thomas Edmondson

1792 - 1851
1764-1834, active 1791-1830, publisher, London, England

Ackermann and Company

1764 - 1834

Richard Beamish

1798 - 1873
1779-1843, designer; steam locomotive maker, British

William Hedley

1779 - 1843
1791-1867, natural philosopher; scientific adviser, England, British

Michael Faraday

1791 - 1867
1798-1884, chemist; pharmacist, English

Peter Squire

1798 - 1884
Mr

John Urpeth Rastrick

1780 - 1856
1787-1854, painter; writer; inventor, English; British

William Brockedon

1787 - 1854
1789-1938?, iron smelter; coal miner; manufacturer of coal-based products, England

Newton, Chambers and Company Limited

1789 - 1972
1785-1861, engineer; millwright, English; British

William Cubitt

1785 - 1861
1750-1803, philosopher; physicist, Swiss

Ami Argand

1750 - 1803
Sir

John Frederick William Herschel

1792 - 1871

Priscilla Susan Bury

1799 - 1872

William Hyde Wollaston

1766 - 1828
1788-1875, print seller; publisher, active London

McLean, Thomas

1788 - 1875
Mr

John Dalton

1766 - 1844
Sir

Humphry Davy

1778 - 1829
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Richard Arkwright

1732 - 1792
1793-1830, active 1820s, ironmonger; nail manufacturer; brassfounder, British

Isaac Earlysman Sparrow

1793 - 1830

William Farish

1759 - 1837
1771-1802, physician; anatomist; physiologist, French

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

1771 - 1802