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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
active 1739 - 1949, bell manufacturers, Cripplegate

J. Warner & Sons

1739 - 1949
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

James Watt

1736 - 1819
1750-1848, astronomer, German

Caroline Lucretia Herschel

1750 - 1848
1752-1834; inventor; French

Joseph Marie Jacquard

1752 - 1834
1735-1819, medallist, German

Daniel Friedrich Loos

1735 - 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
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
1747-1809, engineer, English; British

Francis Thompson

1747 - 1809
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
1740-(current 2015), silk weavers, Sudbury, England

Vanners Silk Weavers

1740
active 1765-1805, optical instrument maker, English; British

Charles Lincoln

1744 - 1807

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

Alessandro Volta

1745 - 1827
1746-1814, civil engineer, British

Jessop, William

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

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1740-1814, medallist, German

Johann Christian Reich

1740 - 1814
active 1770s-1790s, clockmaker; watchmaker, British

Benjamin Vulliamy

1747 - 1811
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
1749-1814, engineer; inventor of locks, English; British

Joseph Bramah

1749 - 1814
lender

Royal College of Surgeons of England

1745
1745-1827, physicist, Italian

Alessandro Volta

1745 - 1827
1743-1823, cleric; inventor of the power loom, English; British

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
1753-1820, pastor, Walloon; Belgian

Henri Daniel Guyot

1753 - 1828
bap. 1753, d. 1828, aeronaut; balloonist; chemist, English

James Sadler

1753 - 1828
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
1753-1827, inventor, English; British

Samuel Crompton

1753 - 1827
1745-1830, mechanician, clock-maker, Swiss

Henri Maillardet

1745 - 1830
1741-1980s?, manufacturing chemist, London England

Burgoyne, Burbidges and Company Limited

1741