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Edmund Cartwright

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

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

1743 - 1794
1740-1812, artist; painter, French-born, British

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1740 - 1812
1747-1809, engineer, English; British

Francis Thompson

1747 - 1809
1741-1799, physician; inventor of 'Perkins Tractors', American

Elisha Perkins

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

Charles Lincoln

1744 - 1807
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
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

Alessandro Volta

1745 - 1827
1744-1832, optical, mathematical & nautical instrument maker, Paris, France

Etienne Lenoir

1744 - 1832
1745-1827, physicist, Italian

Alessandro Volta

1745 - 1827
active 1770s-1790s, clockmaker; watchmaker, British

Benjamin Vulliamy

1747 - 1811
1743-1823, cleric; inventor of the power loom, English; British

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
1743-1820, explorer; naturalist; patron of science, British

Joseph Banks

1743 - 1820
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. 1745-1814?; active 1778-1814, print seller; publisher, British; English

Hannah Humphrey

1742 - 1814
1740-1800, ironmaster, British

Henry Cort

1740 - 1800
1740-(current 2015), silk weavers, Sudbury, England

Vanners Silk Weavers

1740
1744-1809, landscape painter, English

Edward Kennion

1744 - 1809

William Saunders

1743 - 1817
1743-1830, medallist, coin-engraver, British

Lewis Pingo

1743 - 1830
1744-1795, physician; anatomist; surgeon, French

Pierre Joseph Desault

1744 - 1795
1740-1810, balloon pioneer, French

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier

1740 - 1810
1742-1821, naturalist; botanist; professor of botany, Swedish

Anders Jahan Retzius

1742 - 1821
1742-1786, chemist, Swedish

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

1742 - 1786
1745-1804, aeronaut; balloonist, Scottish; British

James Tytler

1745 - 1804
1785-1867, surgeon; astronomer, British

James South

1710 - 1867

Joseph Parry

1744 - 1826
1745-1806, portrait painter; astronomer; artist, English; British

John Russell

1745 - 1806
1744-1824, physician; naturalist, British; English

William Watson

1744 - 1825
1746-1823, physicist; aeronaut; balloonist , French

Jacques Charles

1746 - 1823
1741-1832, physician, French

Antoine Portal

1741 - 1832
1741-1816, hydrographer; engineer & amateur astronomer, Engliah; British

Joseph Huddart

1741 - 1816
1742-1823, writer, British

William Combe

1742 - 1823
1742-1806, man- midwife; surgeon; anatomist, English

William Rowley

1742 - 1806
1741-1799, physician; botanist, English; British

William Withering

1741 - 1799
1746-c. 1807, artist; painter; engraver, British

Charles Townley

1746 - 1807
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

John Opie

1705 - 1807
1742-1806, naturalist; mineralogist, French

Arnould Carangeot

1742 - 1806
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Royal College of Surgeons of England

1745
1741-1828, sculptor, French

Jean-Antoine Houdon

1741 - 1828
1740-1813, typographer; type-designer; printer; publisher, Italian

Giambattista Bodonius

1740 - 1813
1742-1806, chemist; physician, French

Nicolas Leblanc

1742 - 1806
1744-1818, architect; artist; landscape designer; engineer, French

Francois Joseph Belanger

1744 - 1818
1747-1834, physician, German

Ernst Ludwig Heim

1747 - 1834
1746-1815, active 1774-1803, optical, mathematical & philosophical instrument maker, Scottish

John Miller

1746 - 1815