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Walker, John

1781 - 1859

Stephenson, George

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

Trevithick, Richard

1771 - 1833
1771-1831, mechanical engineer, tool maker & inventor; patentee English; British

Maudslay, Henry

1771 - 1831

Brunel, Marc Isambard

1769 - 1849

Trevithick, Richard

1771 - 1833

Cayley, George

1773 - 1857
1779-1843, designer; steam locomotive maker, British

Hedley, William

1779 - 1843

Davy, Humphry

1778 - 1829
active 1806-1861, scientific instrument maker, British; English

Jones, Thomas

1775 - 1852

Dalton, John

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

Dalton, John

1766 - 1844

Rastrick, John Urpeth

1780 - 1856
1771-1802, physician; anatomist; physiologist, French

Bichat, Marie Francois Xavier

1771 - 1802
1772-1864, manufacturing chemist; meteorologist, British

Howard, Luke

1772 - 1864
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Bate, Robert Brettell

1782 - 1847

Brunton, William

1777 - 1851
1781-1873, instrument maker; artist; optical inventor, English; British

Varley, Cornelius

1781 - 1873
active about 1750-1970s, brand name, Lambeth, London, England

Singleton

1779
active 1780-current (2009), boiled sweet manufacturer, England

Smith Kendon Ltd.

1780

Wollaston, William Hyde

1766 - 1828

Clement, Joseph

1779 - 1844
1777-1846, phrenologist, British

DeVille, James

1777 - 1846

Pease, Edward

1767 - 1858
c 1775-1848, toy and camera manufacturer, cabinet maker, Paris, France

Giroux, Alphonse

1775 - 1848

Gilbert, Davies

1767 - 1839
1777-1804, geologist, mineralogist, British

Watt, Gregory

1777 - 1804

Goodrich, Simon

1773 - 1847
1778-1829, chemist; inventor; lecturer, British; English

Davy, Sir Humphry

1778 - 1829
active early 1800s, die-engraver; manufacturer of buttons; manufacturer of medals; manufacturer of tokens; medallist, British

Halliday, Thomas

1780 - 1855
active 1820-1852, optician; optical, mathematical, astronomical & philosophical instrument maker

Dollond, George

1774 - 1852
1781-1848, colliery engineer; railway engineer, English; British

Stephenson, George

1781 - 1848
1780-1860, artist; portrait painter; painter; illustrator, Swiss

Chalon, Alfred Edward

1780 - 1860
active 1805-1845, optician, nautical instrument maker, Portsmouth, English

Stebbing, George

1775 - 1847
1780-1872, polymath; science writer; mathematics expositor, British

Somerville, Mary Fairfax

1780 - 1872
1823-1834, scientific instrument maker, Edinburgh, Scotland

Adie, Alexander

1775 - 1204
1766-1828, chemist; physicist; physiologist, English; British

Wollaston, William Hyde

1766 - 1828
1773-1843, medallist; mint master German

Loos, Gottfried Bernhard

1773 - 1843
1776-1850, physician; inventor, Irish

Clanny, William Reid

1776 - 1850
1777-1835, geodesist; metrologist, English: British

Kater, Henry

1777 - 1827
1776-1861, scientific instrument maker based in Paris, French

Pixii, Nicolas Constant

1776 - 1861
1768-1852, maker of clocks, watches, and nautical instruments, London, England

Massey, Edward

1768 - 1852
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
active 1769-1980, astronomical & meteorological institution, Kew, London, England, British

Kew Observatory

1769 - 1980

Howard, Luke

1772 - 1864
1766-1832, mathematician; natural philosopher, Scottish; British

Leslie, Sir John

1766 - 1832
sixth baronet, 1773-1857, aeronautic designer; aeronautical pioneer, British

Cayley, Sir George

1773 - 1857
1766-1842, physician; military surgeon, French

Larrey, Jean Dominique

1766 - 1842
1777-1853, naval architect; master shipwright, British; English

Lang, Oliver

1777 - 1853
1770-1841, active 1804-1841, optician and optical instrument maker, French

Chevalier, Vincent Jacques Louis

1770 - 1841