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John Walker

1781 - 1859
Mr

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
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
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

John Dalton

1766 - 1844
Sir

George Cayley

1773 - 1857
Sir

Marc Isambard Brunel

1769 - 1849
1764-1834, active 1791-1830, publisher, London, England

Ackermann and Company

1764 - 1834
1779-1843, designer; steam locomotive maker, British

William Hedley

1779 - 1843
Mr

John Urpeth Rastrick

1780 - 1856

William Hyde Wollaston

1766 - 1828
Mr

John Dalton

1766 - 1844
Sir

Humphry Davy

1778 - 1829

William Farish

1759 - 1837
active 1806-1861, scientific instrument maker, British; English

Thomas Jones

1775 - 1852
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
Mr

William Brunton

1777 - 1851

Joseph Clement

1779 - 1844
1781-1873, instrument maker; artist; optical inventor, English; British

Cornelius Varley

1781 - 1873

William Reynolds

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

Dudley Adams

1760 - 1830
1772-1864, manufacturing chemist; meteorologist, British

Luke Howard

1772 - 1864
1777-1846, phrenologist, British

James DeVille

1777 - 1846

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
1777-1804, geologist, mineralogist, British

Gregory Watt

1777 - 1804
1754-1839, engineer; inventor, British; Scottish

William Murdock

1754 - 1839

George Hyde Wollaston

1765 - 1841
1780-1872, polymath; science writer; mathematics expositor, British

Mary Fairfax Somerville

1780 - 1872
active early 1800s, die-engraver; manufacturer of buttons; manufacturer of medals; manufacturer of tokens; medallist, British

Thomas Halliday

1780 - 1855

Andrew Vivian

1759 - 1842
c 1775-1848, toy and camera manufacturer, cabinet maker, Paris, France

Alphonse Giroux

1775 - 1848
1781-1848, colliery engineer; railway engineer, English; British

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
1766-1828, chemist; physicist; physiologist, English; British

William Hyde Wollaston

1766 - 1828
active 1805-1845, optician, nautical instrument maker, Portsmouth, English

Stebbing, George

1775 - 1847
1768-1852, maker of clocks, watches, and nautical instruments, London, England

Edward Massey

1768 - 1852

John Curr

1756 - 1823
1780-1860, artist; portrait painter; painter; illustrator, Swiss

Alfred Edward Chalon

1780 - 1860
1823-1834, scientific instrument maker, Edinburgh, Scotland

Alexander Adie

1775 - 1204
1757-1831, naval architect; mechanical engineer; inventor, English, British

Samuel Bentham

1757 - 1831