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Alexander Parkes

1813 - 1890

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis

1818 - 1865
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

James Phipps

1788 - 1853
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Ada Lovelace

1815 - 1852

John Walker

1781 - 1859
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Edwin Chadwick

1800 - 1890
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901
1813-1979, manufacturer, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, British

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

John Snow

1813 - 1858
Mr

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

1806 - 1859
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Richard Trevithick

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

Anna Atkins

1799 - 1871
Sir

Charles Wheatstone

1802 - 1875
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Samuel Hahnemann

1755 - 1843
1818-1984, lock and safe manufacturer, England, British

Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company Limited

1818 - 1984
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
1771-1831, mechanical engineer, tool maker & inventor; patentee English; British

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
Mr

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850
1818-1889, physicist, English, British

James Prescott Joule

1818 - 1889
1810-c. 1960, poster printer; printer, Dunstable and London

Waterlow and Sons Limited

1810 - 1960
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

1754 - 1814

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve

1793 - 1864

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

George Jennings

1810 - 1882

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
active 1826-1879, wax modeller, English; British

Joseph Towne

1806 - 1879
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
Mr

John Benjamin Dancer

1812 - 1887
1812-1887, journalist; author; playwright, British.

Henry Mayhew

1812 - 1887
1800-1970's?, button manufacturer, London

Jennens and Company Limited

1800
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

1789

August Wilhelm Hofmann

1818 - 1892

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

John Dalton

1766 - 1844
1794-1992, dispensing chemist; druggist, London, England

Savory and Moore Limited

1794 - 1992
Mr

George Bradshaw

1801 - 1853
1812-1887, active 1835-1878, optician, optical, mathematical & philosophical instrument maker, British

John Benjamin Dancer

1812 - 1887

Richard Roberts

1789 - 1864
Sir

Marc Isambard Brunel

1769 - 1849
Sir

George Cayley

1773 - 1857

George Hudson

1800 - 1871
1813-1897, zoologist, Danish, Denmark

Steenstrup, Johannes Japetus Smith

1813 - 1897
1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975
1808-1914, optical, mathematical & philosophical (globes) instrument makers, London, England, British

Carpenter and Westley

1808 - 1914
1818-present, lamp manufacturer, Stoke Newington

Tilley Ltd

1818
locomotive engineer, German-born; British; LGBTQIA+

Charles Frederick Beyer

1813 - 1876
1792-1851, inventor of ticket-printing machinery, British

Thomas Edmondson

1792 - 1851