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Alexander Parkes

1813 - 1890
1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

William Thomas Green Morton

1819 - 1868
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis

1818 - 1865
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

James Phipps

1788 - 1853
active 1829-1895, microbiologist; chemist, French

Louis Pasteur

1822 - 1895
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Ada Lovelace

1815 - 1852

John Walker

1781 - 1859
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Edwin Chadwick

1800 - 1890
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901
1813-1979, manufacturer, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, British

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

John Snow

1813 - 1858
Mr

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

1806 - 1859
1799-1871, botanist; photographic artist, British

Anna Atkins

1799 - 1871
Sir

Charles Wheatstone

1802 - 1875
1820-1910, reformer of Army medical services and of nursing, British; English

Florence Nightingale

1820 - 1910
1818-1984, lock and safe manufacturer, England, British

Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company Limited

1818 - 1984
1820-1962, periodical and magazine, London

John Bull Magazine

1820 - 1962
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
Mr

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850
1819-1999, submarine engineers, manufacturer of diving and breathing apparatus, United Kingdom

Siebe Gorman and Company Limited

1819 - 1999
1819-1867, inventor; sewing machine pioneer, American

Elias Howe

1819 - 1867
1818-1889, physicist, English, British

James Prescott Joule

1818 - 1889
1810-c. 1960, poster printer; printer, Dunstable and London

Waterlow and Sons Limited

1810 - 1960
1822-1911, biostatistician, human geneticist & eugenicist, English, British

Francis Galton

1822 - 1911

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

George Jennings

1810 - 1882
Mr

James Mudd

1821 - 1906
active 1826-1879, wax modeller, English; British

Joseph Towne

1806 - 1879

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve

1793 - 1864
1799-1865, active 1812-1865, physician; army medical officer, English

James Barry

1789 - 1865
1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Walter Hancock

1799 - 1852
1812-1887, journalist; author; playwright, British.

Henry Mayhew

1812 - 1887
Mr

John Benjamin Dancer

1812 - 1887
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

1789
1800-1970's?, button manufacturer, London

Jennens and Company Limited

1800

August Wilhelm Hofmann

1818 - 1892
active 1824-1963, glass manufacturer, Smethwick, Staffordshire, England, British

Chance Brothers Limited

1824 - 1963

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979
1794-1992, dispensing chemist; druggist, London, England

Savory and Moore Limited

1794 - 1992
Mr

George Bradshaw

1801 - 1853
1812-1887, active 1835-1878, optician, optical, mathematical & philosophical instrument maker, British

John Benjamin Dancer

1812 - 1887

Richard Roberts

1789 - 1864
1819-1891, civil engineer, English; British

Joseph William Bazalgette

1819 - 1891
1813-1897, zoologist, Danish, Denmark

Steenstrup, Johannes Japetus Smith

1813 - 1897
1824-1880, surgeon, pathologist; anthropologist, French

Paul Broca

1824 - 1880

George Hudson

1800 - 1871
1808-1914, optical, mathematical & philosophical (globes) instrument makers, London, England, British

Carpenter and Westley

1808 - 1914
1818-present, lamp manufacturer, Stoke Newington

Tilley Ltd

1818
1824-1884, scientific instrument maker, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scottish; British

James White

1824 - 1884