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

Edward Jenner

1749 - 1823
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
1749-1978, hospital, English

Liverpool Royal Infirmary

1749 - 1978
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Samuel Hahnemann

1755 - 1843
1771-1831, mechanical engineer, tool maker & inventor; patentee English; British

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

1754 - 1814

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
Mr

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

John Dalton

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

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

1743 - 1794
Sir

Marc Isambard Brunel

1769 - 1849
Sir

George Cayley

1773 - 1857
1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975
1764-1834, active 1791-1830, publisher, London, England

Ackermann and Company

1764 - 1834
1750-1803, philosopher; physicist, Swiss

Ami Argand

1750 - 1803
Mr

John Dalton

1766 - 1844

William Hyde Wollaston

1766 - 1828

William Farish

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

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

1771 - 1802
Mr

Thomas Meynell

1763 - 1854

Edward Pease

1767 - 1858
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

William Reynolds

1758 - 1803
active 1788-1817, mathematical, philosophical (globes) & optical instrument maker, English; British

Dudley Adams

1760 - 1830
1750-1848, astronomer, German

Caroline Lucretia Herschel

1750 - 1848
1772-1864, manufacturing chemist; meteorologist, British

Luke Howard

1772 - 1864

Luke Howard

1772 - 1864

Simon Goodrich

1773 - 1847
1752-1834; inventor; French

Joseph Marie Jacquard

1752 - 1834

Rudolph Ackermann

1764 - 1834

Davies Gilbert

1767 - 1839
1754-1839, engineer; inventor, British; Scottish

William Murdock

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

Abraham Bennet

1749 - 1799

George Hyde Wollaston

1765 - 1841
1740-1812, artist; painter, French-born, British

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1740 - 1812

Andrew Vivian

1759 - 1842
1766-1828, chemist; physicist; physiologist, English; British

William Hyde Wollaston

1766 - 1828
1747-1809, engineer, English; British

Francis Thompson

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

Elisha Perkins

1741 - 1799
1768-1852, maker of clocks, watches, and nautical instruments, London, England

Edward Massey

1768 - 1852

John Curr

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

Samuel Bentham

1757 - 1831
active 1765-1805, optical instrument maker, English; British

Charles Lincoln

1744 - 1807
1765-1815, inventor; engineer; artist, American

Fulton, Robert

1765 - 1815
active 1820-1852, optician; optical, mathematical, astronomical & philosophical instrument maker

George Dollond

1774 - 1852
active 1769-1980, astronomical & meteorological institution, Kew, London, England, British

Kew Observatory

1769 - 1980

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
1750-1795, [Adams the Younger] active 1772-1795, mathematical instrument maker; globe maker, English; British

George Adams

1750 - 1795
sixth baronet, 1773-1857, aeronautic designer; aeronautical pioneer, British

George Cayley

1773 - 1857