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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
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
1750-1848, astronomer, German

Caroline Lucretia Herschel

1750 - 1848
1752-1834; inventor; French

Joseph Marie Jacquard

1752 - 1834
1749-1799, clergyman; natural philosopher, English; British

Abraham Bennet

1749 - 1799
1747-1809, engineer, English; British

Francis Thompson

1747 - 1809
1740-1812, artist; painter, French-born, British

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1740 - 1812
1741-1799, physician; inventor of 'Perkins Tractors', American

Elisha Perkins

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

Charles Lincoln

1744 - 1807
1750-1795, [Adams the Younger] active 1772-1795, mathematical instrument maker; globe maker, English; British

George Adams [The Younger]

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

Thomas Earnshaw

1749 - 1829
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
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1740-1814, medallist, German

Johann Christian Reich

1740 - 1814

Alessandro Volta

1745 - 1827
1749-1814, engineer; inventor of locks, English; British

Joseph Bramah

1749 - 1814
1744-1832, optical, mathematical & nautical instrument maker, Paris, France

Etienne Lenoir

1744 - 1832
1745-1827, physicist, Italian

Alessandro Volta

1745 - 1827
1753-1820, pastor, Walloon; Belgian

Henri Daniel Guyot

1753 - 1828
active 1770s-1790s, clockmaker; watchmaker, British

Benjamin Vulliamy

1747 - 1811
bap. 1753, d. 1828, aeronaut; balloonist; chemist, English

James Sadler

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

Samuel Crompton

1753 - 1827
c. 1745-1814?; active 1778-1814, print seller; publisher, British; English

Hannah Humphrey

1742 - 1814
1748-1808, clock and watchmaker, London, England, British

George Margetts

1748 - 1808
1753-1835, active, 1804-1826, optician & mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Edward Troughton

1753 - 1835
1751-1820, vice-admiral in the Royal Navy, British

Admiral Richard Grindall

1751 - 1820
1753-1816, Lord Mahon, third earl Stanhope; inventor; politician, English; British

Charles Stanhope

1753 - 1816
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
1751-1822, structural engineer, British; English

Charles Woolley Bage

1751 - 1822

William Saunders

1743 - 1817
1750-1831, physicist; instrument maker, French

Jean Nicolas Fortin

1750 - 1831
1752 or 1754-1811, medallist, die-engraver, German; Prussian

Abraham Abramson

1752 - 1811
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
1753-1815, chemist; natural philosopher; publisher, English; British

William Nicholson

1753 - 1815
1742-1821, naturalist; botanist; professor of botany, Swedish

Anders Jahan Retzius

1742 - 1821