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Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890

Wheatstone, Charles

1802 - 1875
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
1845-c1955, optical instrument, lens and camera makers, Germany

Emil Busch AG

1845
1838-1907, chemist, English; British

Perkin, Sir William Henry

1838 - 1907
active 1828-1947, marine & aeronautical navigational instrument maker, London, England, British

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912
1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

Morton, William Thomas Green

1819 - 1868
active 1878-1911, scientific instrument manufacturer, London, England

Hicks, James Joseph

1837 - 1916
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901
1824-1884, scientific instrument maker, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scottish; British

White, James

1824 - 1884
1839-1932, shipping company, British

Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

1839 - 1932
1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Hancock, Walter

1799 - 1852
active 1829-1895, microbiologist; chemist, French

Pasteur, Louis

1822 - 1895
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Koch, Robert

1843 - 1910
1797-1880, physician; modelmaker, French

Auzoux, Louis Thomas Jerome

1797 - 1880
c.1829-1905, active from 1857, photographer, French, active in Asia

Mallitte, Oscar Jean Baptiste

1829 - 1905

Dancer, John Benjamin

1812 - 1887
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Lovelace, Ada

1815 - 1852

Pease, Sir Joseph Whitwell (1828-1903) 1st Baronet Businessman and MP

1828 - 1903

Swan, Joseph Wilson

1828 - 1914
1816-1892, astronomer and photographer, American

Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris

1816 - 1892
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858
active 1792-1829, body snatcher, Edinburgh / British

Burke, William

1792 - 1829
1785-1870, inventor; mathematician, French

Thomas, Charles Xavier

1785 - 1870
1829-1901, physiologist, German

Fick, Adolf Eugen

1829 - 1901
1781-1861, civil engineer, British

Clegg, Samuel

1781 - 1861

Walker, John

1781 - 1859
1833 - 1883, inventor; engineer, British; English

Vansittart, Henrietta

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

Lowndes, Francis

1819
1842-, manufacturer of ceramics, Burslem, England

John Maddock and Sons Limited

1842
b. 1822, active 1872, mathematical modelmaker, Paris, France

Fabre de Lagrange

1822
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

1789
active 1780-current (2009), boiled sweet manufacturer, England

Smith Kendon Ltd.

1780
1800-1970's?, button manufacturer, London

Jennens and Company Limited

1800
active 1846-1880, clock and chronometer maker, England, British

Shepherd, Charles

1830
1790-1878, inventor; Church of Scotland minister/clergyman, Scottish; British

Stirling, Robert

1790 - 1878
1824-1914, science writer; aeronaut, French

Fonvielle, Wilfrid de

1824 - 1914
1785-1851, artist; naturalist; ornithologist, American

Audubon, John James

1785 - 1851
c. 1828-1889?, apprenticed 1844 to Brumby & Middleton, merchants & factors of Sheffield, British

Sawyer, John Robert Mather

1828 - 1889
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Bate, Robert Brettell

1782 - 1847
1813-1979, manufacturer, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, British

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979
1788-1863, cleric; writer; photographer; traveller, British

Bridges, George Wilson

1788 - 1863
1818-1984, lock and safe manufacturer, England, British

Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company Limited

1818 - 1984
1835-present, journal, British

Railway Gazette International

1835
1797-1867, photographer, French

Claudet, Antoine

1797 - 1867
1819-1889, photographer; inventor, French

Disdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène

1819 - 1889
1813-1901, photographer; politician, English; British

Mayall, John Jabez Edwin

1813 - 1901