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Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

James Phipps

1788 - 1853

John Walker

1781 - 1859
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901
Mr

George Stephenson

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

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve

1793 - 1864
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Samuel Hahnemann

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

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
Mr

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Clemente Susini

1754 - 1814

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
1799-1865, active 1812-1865, physician; army medical officer, English

James Barry

1789 - 1865
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

1789
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

John Dalton

1766 - 1844
1759-present, engineering company, Dowlais

Guest Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd

1759
Sir

George Cayley

1773 - 1857
Sir

Marc Isambard Brunel

1769 - 1849

Richard Roberts

1789 - 1864
1792-1851, inventor of ticket-printing machinery, British

Thomas Edmondson

1792 - 1851
1791-1867, natural philosopher; scientific adviser, England, British

Michael Faraday

1791 - 1867
1764-1834, active 1791-1830, publisher, London, England

Ackermann and Company

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

William Hedley

1779 - 1843
1774-1969, button makers, Birmingham

William Dowler & Sons Limited

1774 - 1969
Mr

John Urpeth Rastrick

1780 - 1856
1789-1938?, iron smelter; coal miner; manufacturer of coal-based products, England

Newton, Chambers and Company Limited

1789 - 1972
1785-1861, engineer; millwright, English; British

William Cubitt

1785 - 1861
1787-1854, painter; writer; inventor, English; British

William Brockedon

1787 - 1854
Mr

John Dalton

1766 - 1844

William Hyde Wollaston

1766 - 1828
Sir

John Frederick William Herschel

1792 - 1871
1788-1875, print seller; publisher, active London

McLean, Thomas

1788 - 1875
Sir

Humphry Davy

1778 - 1829

William Farish

1759 - 1837
1793-1830, active 1820s, ironmonger; nail manufacturer; brassfounder, British

Isaac Earlysman Sparrow

1793 - 1830
1771-1802, physician; anatomist; physiologist, French

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

1771 - 1802
Mr

Thomas Meynell

1763 - 1854
active, 1812-1856, optical, mathematical, philosophical & nautical inst. maker & optician, British

John Frederick Newman

1783 - 1860
active 1789-1825, optician nautical instrument and telescope maker, English; British

William Cary

1759 - 1825
active 1806-1861, scientific instrument maker, British; English

Thomas Jones

1775 - 1852

Edward Pease

1767 - 1858
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Robert Brettell Bate

1782 - 1847
1759-1806, clerk; aeronaut; balloonist, Italian

Vincenzo Lunardi

1759 - 1806
Mr

William Brunton

1777 - 1851
1786-1865, manufacturer of rubber; inventor, British

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865

William Henry Smyth

1788 - 1865

Joseph Clement

1779 - 1844

William Reynolds

1758 - 1803