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1927-current (2007); manufacturer of electrical equipment

Crompton Parkinson Limited

1827

Paxton, Joseph

1803 - 1865

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871

Scamp, William

1801 - 1872

Nightingale, Florence

1820 - 1910

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Lovelace, Ada

1815 - 1852
1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

Morton, William Thomas Green

1819 - 1868
active 1828-1947, marine & aeronautical navigational instrument maker, London, England, British

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

Cross, John Cartwright

1775 - 1810

Stephenson, George

1781 - 1848
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

Jennings, George

1810 - 1882
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Trevithick, Richard

1771 - 1833
1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Hancock, Walter

1799 - 1852
1771-1862, physician, French

Bretonneau, Pierre

1771 - 1862
active 1829-1895, microbiologist; chemist, French

Pasteur, Louis

1822 - 1895
1802-1956, distributor and manufacturer, Waterbury

Scovill Manufacturing Co

1802 - 1956

Meynell, Thomas

1763 - 1854

Hackworth, Timothy

1786 - 1850

Pease, Edward

1767 - 1858
1898-1915, magazine, English; British

The Girl's Realm

1811 - 1911
1769-1843, active from 1783, watchmaker; chronometer maker, English, son of John Arnold

Arnold, John Roger

1769 - 1843
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858
1785-1870, inventor; mathematician, French

Thomas, Charles Xavier

1785 - 1870
1833 - 1883, inventor; engineer, British; English

Vansittart, Henrietta

1833 - 1883
fl. 1780s-1819, inventor, British, United Kingdom

Lowndes, Francis

1819
1810-c. 1960, poster printer; printer, Dunstable and London

Waterlow and Sons Limited

1810
1800-1970's?, button manufacturer, London

Jennens and Company Limited

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

A and F Pears Limited

1789

Buckland, Francis Trevelyan

1826 - 1880

Manby, George William

1765 - 1854

Guizot, Francoise Pierre Guillaume

1787 - 1874

Wilson, James

1765 - 1821

Winkles, H.

1801 - 1860

Durand, Elias

1794 - 1873

Boubee, Neree

1806 - 1863

Greville, Robert Kaye

1794 - 1866

Kitching, Alfred

1808 - 1882

Walker, James

1781 - 1862

Smiles, Samuel

1812 - 1904

Watson, John

1816 - 1862

Hind, John Russell (FRS FAS)

1823 - 1895

Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

1810 - 1897

Henson, Gravener

1785 - 1852

Hughes, Thomas McKenny

1832 - 1917

Brunel, Marc Isambard

1769 - 1849

Bakewell, Robert

1768 - 1843