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John Walker

1781 - 1859
Mr

George Stephenson

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

Richard Trevithick

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

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
Sir

George Cayley

1773 - 1857
Sir

Marc Isambard Brunel

1769 - 1849
1779-1843, designer; steam locomotive maker, British

William Hedley

1779 - 1843
Mr

John Urpeth Rastrick

1780 - 1856
Sir

Humphry Davy

1778 - 1829
1771-1802, physician; anatomist; physiologist, French

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

1771 - 1802
active 1806-1861, scientific instrument maker, British; English

Thomas Jones

1775 - 1852
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Robert Brettell Bate

1782 - 1847
Mr

William Brunton

1777 - 1851

Joseph Clement

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

Cornelius Varley

1781 - 1873
1772-1864, manufacturing chemist; meteorologist, British

Luke Howard

1772 - 1864
1777-1846, phrenologist, British

James DeVille

1777 - 1846

Simon Goodrich

1773 - 1847
1777-1804, geologist, mineralogist, British

Gregory Watt

1777 - 1804
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
c 1775-1848, toy and camera manufacturer, cabinet maker, Paris, France

Alphonse Giroux

1775 - 1848
active 1805-1845, optician, nautical instrument maker, Portsmouth, English

Stebbing, George

1775 - 1847
1781-1848, colliery engineer; railway engineer, English; British

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848

Luke Howard

1772 - 1864
1823-1834, scientific instrument maker, Edinburgh, Scotland

Alexander Adie

1775 - 1204
1768-1852, maker of clocks, watches, and nautical instruments, London, England

Edward Massey

1768 - 1852
1780-1860, artist; portrait painter; painter; illustrator, Swiss

Alfred Edward Chalon

1780 - 1860
active 1780-1812 in London, artist, German

Joseph Constantine Stadler

1780 - 1822
active 1820-1852, optician; optical, mathematical, astronomical & philosophical instrument maker

George Dollond

1774 - 1852
1778-1829, chemist; inventor; lecturer, British; English

Humphry Davy

1778 - 1829
1776-1861, scientific instrument maker based in Paris, French

Nicolas Constant Pixii

1776 - 1861
1781-1856, artist, British

George Walker

1781 - 1856
1777-1835, geodesist; metrologist, English: British

Henry Kater

1777 - 1827
1776-1850, physician; inventor, Irish

William Reid Clanny

1776 - 1850
1779-1866, writer on prophecy, British; English

James Hatley Frere

1779 - 1866
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

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

Kew Observatory

1769 - 1980

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
1775-1856, surgical instrument maker & natural philosopher, English

William Haseldine Pepys

1775 - 1856
sixth baronet, 1773-1857, aeronautic designer; aeronautical pioneer, British

George Cayley

1773 - 1857
1773-1843, medallist; mint master German

Gottfried Bernhard Loos

1773 - 1843
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1779-1903, foundry; manufacturer of beam engines, Hayle, England

Harvey and Company Limited

1779 - 1903
1777-1853, naval architect; master shipwright, British; English

Oliver Lang

1777 - 1853
active 1776-1909, ironworks, safety lamp maker, British

John Abbot and Company Limited

1776 - 1909
1774-1850, active 1805-1839, silversmith, English; British

William Bateman

1774 - 1850
1775-1860, tenth Earl of Dundonald, naval officer, Scottish; British

Thomas Cochrane

1775 - 1860
1770-1841, active 1804-1841, optician and optical instrument maker, French

Vincent Jacques Louis Chevalier

1770 - 1841