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Walker, John

1781 - 1859
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
1785-1861, engineer; millwright, English; British

Cubitt, Sir William

1785 - 1861

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Bate, Robert Brettell

1782 - 1847

Stephenson, George

1781 - 1848
1792-1851, inventor of ticket-printing machinery, British

Edmondson, Thomas

1792 - 1851
1823-1834, scientific instrument maker, Edinburgh, Scotland

Adie, Alexander

1775 - 1204
1785-1851, artist; naturalist; ornithologist, American

Audubon, John James

1785 - 1851
1788-1863, cleric; writer; photographer; traveller, British

Bridges, George Wilson

1788 - 1863
1788-1873, inventor of the electric telegraph; meteorologist, British; English

Ronalds, Sir Francis

1788 - 1873
1765-1821, medical lecturer, British?

Wilson, James

1765 - 1821
1784-1863, naval officer; ship designer; politician, English; British

Elliot, George

1784 - 1863
1778-1823, mechanical engineer, American

Dod, Daniel

1778 - 1823
1772-1844, naturalist, French

Saint-Hilaire, Etienne Geoffroy

1772 - 1844
1793-1850, architect; engineer, Scottish; British

Handyside, William

1793 - 1850
1781-1840, mathematician; geometer; physicist, French

Poisson, Siméon-Denis

1781 - 1840
1773-c1876

British Cast Plate Glass Company

1773 - 1876
active, 1812-1856, optical, mathematical, philosophical & nautical inst. maker & optician, British

Newman, John Frederick

1783 - 1860
1790-1878, inventor; Church of Scotland minister/clergyman, Scottish; British

Stirling, Robert

1790 - 1878
1768-1852, maker of clocks, watches, and nautical instruments, London, England

Massey, Edward

1768 - 1852

Manby, George William

1765 - 1854

Guizot, Francoise Pierre Guillaume

1787 - 1874

Cross, John Cartwright

1775 - 1810

Wilson, James

1765 - 1821

Walker, James

1781 - 1862

Henson, Gravener

1785 - 1852

Brunel, Marc Isambard

1769 - 1849

Bakewell, Robert

1768 - 1843

Cooper, Astley Paston (first baronet)

1768 - 1841

Howard, Luke

1772 - 1864

Guillan, Archibald

1790 - 1891

Scoresby, William

1789 - 1857

Martin, Kennett Beacham

1788 - 1859

Ewart, Peter

1767 - 1843

Sibley, Robert

1789 - 1849

Rastrick, John Urpeth

1780 - 1856

Stovin, Frederick

1783 - 1865

Hargreaves, John

1780 - 1860

Dutrochet, Rene-Joachim-Henri

1776 - 1847

Wollaston, William Hyde

1766 - 1828

Dalrymple, Leighton

1785 - 1820

Bruce, Henry William

1792 - 1863

Roberts, Richard

1789 - 1864

Hamilton, Robert

1778 - 1838

Perkins, Jacob

1766 - 1849

Hancock, William

1789 - 1848

Hackworth, Jane

1785 - 1852

Buckland, William

1784 - 1856

Compton, Spencer Joshua Alwyne

1790 - 1851