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John Walker

1781 - 1859
Mr

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
1779-1843, designer; steam locomotive maker, British

William Hedley

1779 - 1843
1785-1861, engineer; millwright, English; British

William Cubitt

1785 - 1861
Mr

John Urpeth Rastrick

1780 - 1856
Sir

Humphry Davy

1778 - 1829
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Robert Brettell Bate

1782 - 1847
active, 1812-1856, optical, mathematical, philosophical & nautical inst. maker & optician, British

John Frederick Newman

1783 - 1860

Joseph Clement

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

Cornelius Varley

1781 - 1873
1785-1870, inventor; mathematician, French

Charles Xavier Thomas

1785 - 1870
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
1781-1848, colliery engineer; railway engineer, English; British

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
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
1778-1829, chemist; inventor; lecturer, British; English

Humphry Davy

1778 - 1829
1781-1856, artist, British

George Walker

1781 - 1856
Mr

Francis Mewburn

1785 - 1867
1783-1831, mining engineer; inventor of steam locomotives and rail system, British

John Blenkinsop

1783 - 1831
1779-1866, writer on prophecy, British; English

James Hatley Frere

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

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883

Gravener Henson

1785 - 1852
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
1779-1848, chemist, Swedish

Jons Jakob Berzelius

1779 - 1848
1783-1850, electrician; scientific lecturer, British

William Sturgeon

1783 - 1850
1783-1983, art material manufacturer and supplier, London, England

Rowney and Company

1783 - 1983
Mrs

Jane Hackworth

1785 - 1852
1779-1844, engineer, British; English

Joseph Clement

1779 - 1844
1785-1830, zoologist; entomologist, Italian

Franco Andrea Bonelli

1785 - 1830
1782-1868, mechanical engineer, Scottish; British

John Robertson

1782 - 1868
active, 1810-1837, optician, mathematical & philosophical instrument maker, Dublin, Ireland

Thomas Mason

1781 - 1837
1778-1868, lord chancellor; reformer, Scottish; British

Henry Peter Brougham

1778 - 1868
1778-1850, chemist; physicist, French

Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac

1778 - 1850
1782-1856, naval officer; naval architect, English; British

William Symonds

1782 - 1856
1778-1850, clockmaker, London, England, British

William James Frodsham

1778 - 1850

Leighton Dalrymple

1785 - 1820
1780-1868, civil engineer, Belfast, Ireland, Irish

Alexander Mitchell

1780 - 1868

John Frederick Newman

1783 - 1860
c.1785-1850, Darlington, engineer, British

William Lister

1785 - 1850
1783-1796?, chronometer maker, London, England

John Arnold and Son

1783 - 1796
1778-1856, artist, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, English; British

William Watkin Waite

1778 - 1856
1784-1856, geologist; dean of Westminster, British; English

William Buckland

1784 - 1856
1781-1868, natural philosopher and academic administrator, Scottish; British

David Brewster

1781 - 1868
c. 1778-1863, inventor of typesetting machine and steam carriage, active UK, American

William Church

1778 - 1863
1779-1851, naturalist; botanist; biologist; ornithologist, German

Lorenz Oken

1779 - 1851

Charles Green

1785 - 1870
Sir

Frederick Stovin

1783 - 1865
1784-1865, experimental philosopher; scientific administrator, British; English

Samuel Hunter Christie

1784 - 1865