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1818-1889, physicist, English, British

James Prescott Joule

1818 - 1889
1796-1829, wax modeller, Italian

Francesco Calenzuoli

1796 - 1829
1792-1858, inventor of the Typographer, American

William Austin Burt

1792 - 1858
1811 or 1812-1878, locomotive builder; engineer, British; English

George England

1811 - 1878
1804-1879, medallist, Dutch

David van der Kellen

1804 - 1879
1821-1898, anthropologist, French

Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet

1821 - 1898
1829-1913, photographer, Italian; British

Alexander Bassano

1829 - 1913
active 1869, inventor; engineer, American; Northern Irish born;

Alexander Kirk Rider

1820 - 1893
1828-1903, locomotive manufacturer, Manchester, England

Sharp Stewart and Company Limited

1828 - 1903
1819-1905, artist; painter, British

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait

1819 - 1905
1828-1918, manufacturer of engines; manufacturer of agricultural machinery, Grantham, England

R. Hornsby and Sons Limited

1828 - 1918
1781-1848, colliery engineer; railway engineer, English; British

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
1802-1875, pioneer of telegraphy, scientist and contributor to optics, English; British

CHARLES WHEATSTONE

1802 - 1875
1818-1906, King of Denmark

Christian IX

1818 - 1906
1792-1849, King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

William

1792 - 1849
1795-1846, inventor of lawn mower, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, British

Edwin Budding

1795 - 1846
1788-1873, inventor of the electric telegraph; meteorologist, British; English

Francis Ronalds

1788 - 1873
1802-1879, mechanical engineer, British

Benjamin Fothergill

1802 - 1879
1813-1897, zoologist, Danish, Denmark

Steenstrup, Johannes Japetus Smith

1813 - 1897
1820-1889; engineer; geographer; India; Scottish

Henry Yule

1820 - 1889
1794-1878, mycologist; botanist, Swedish

Elias Magnus Fries

1794 - 1878
1810-1867, sculptor; medallist, Swedish

Carl Gustav Quarnstrom

1810 - 1867
1788-1856, sculptor; medallist, French

David D'Angers

1788 - 1856
1807-1866, gem engraver; medallist, Swedish born; French

Jean Baptiste Salmson

1807 - 1866
British; sculptor; 1813–1862

John Thomas

1813 - 1862
1816-1903, engraver, British, United Kingdom

Henry Papprill

1816 - 1903
1801-1875, painter, British, United Kingdom

William Adolphus Knell

1801 - 1875
1810-1878, chemist & physicist, French

Henri Victor Regnault

1810 - 1878
1801-1853, compiler of railway guides, British

George Bradshaw

1801 - 1853
1816-1889, railway engineer; executive, British

Daniel Gooch

1816 - 1889
1814-1879, glassblower; scientific instrument maker, German

Heinrich Geissler

1814 - 1879
1781-1841, sculptor, British; English

Francis Legatt Chantrey

1781 - 1841
1816-1888, railway engineer; civil engineer, British

Thomas Russell Crampton

1816 - 1888
1820-1910, reformer of Army medical services and of nursing, British; English

Florence Nightingale

1820 - 1910
1801-1866, painter; printmaker, French

Victor Adam

1801 - 1866
1787-1855, antiquary, portuguese scholar and railway administrator, Newcastle, British

Adamson, John

1787 - 1855
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1814-1885, printmaker, British

Vincent Brooks

1814 - 1885
1824-1893, brewer, benefactor, Scottish, British

Andrew Barclay Walker

1824 - 1893
bap. 1817-1876, sculptor, English; British

Matthew N Noble

1817 - 1876
1788-1869, merchant and railway administrator and director, British

Henry Booth

1788 - 1869
1820-1896, civil engineer, England, British

Peter John Margary

1820 - 1896
active 1850-1869, chartered civil engineer, England, British

William Ellis Metford

1824 - 1899
1807-1889, locomotive engineer, British

Edward Fletcher

1807 - 1889
1801-1883, physicist, inventor, Belgium

Joseph Plateau

1801 - 1883
1800-1872, engraver; medallist, Swiss

Jakob Friedrich Aberli

1800 - 1872
active 1830s-1860s, sculptor; medallist, French

Adrien Vauthier-Gallé

1818 - 1899
1819-1875, novelist; Church of England clergyman; controversialist, British

Charles Kingsley

1819 - 1875
sixth baronet, 1773-1857, aeronautic designer; aeronautical pioneer, British

George Cayley

1773 - 1857
1812-1896, physician; inventor of a vaccinator, British

Thomas Graham Weir

1812 - 1896