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Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

James Phipps

1788 - 1853
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

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

1806 - 1859
Sir

Charles Wheatstone

1802 - 1875
1799-1871, botanist; photographic artist, British

Anna Atkins

1799 - 1871
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
Mr

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850
1810-c. 1960, poster printer; printer, Dunstable and London

Waterlow and Sons Limited

1810 - 1960
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

George Jennings

1810 - 1882

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865
active 1826-1879, wax modeller, English; British

Joseph Towne

1806 - 1879
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
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

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

Jennens and Company Limited

1800
1794-1992, dispensing chemist; druggist, London, England

Savory and Moore Limited

1794 - 1992
Mr

George Bradshaw

1801 - 1853

Richard Roberts

1789 - 1864

George Hudson

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

Carpenter and Westley

1808 - 1914

Richard Beamish

1798 - 1873
1792-1851, inventor of ticket-printing machinery, British

Thomas Edmondson

1792 - 1851
1808-1890, mechanical engineer; amateur astronomer, Scottish; British

James Hall Nasmyth

1808 - 1890
Sir

William George Armstrong

1810 - 1900
1802-1966, British Army regiment, British

Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)

1802 - 1966
1787-1854, painter; writer; inventor, English; British

William Brockedon

1787 - 1854
1798-1884, chemist; pharmacist, English

Peter Squire

1798 - 1884
1789-1938?, iron smelter; coal miner; manufacturer of coal-based products, England

Newton, Chambers and Company Limited

1789 - 1972
1791-1867, natural philosopher; scientific adviser, England, British

Michael Faraday

1791 - 1867
1785-1861, engineer; millwright, English; British

William Cubitt

1785 - 1861
1806-1875, neurologist, France

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin Amand

1806 - 1875

Priscilla Susan Bury

1799 - 1872
1809-1882, naturalist; geologist; originator of the theory of natural selection, British

Charles Darwin

1809 - 1882
Sir

John Frederick William Herschel

1792 - 1871
active 1832-1859 , optician and optical instrument maker, French

Charles Louis Chevalier

1804 - 1859

Robert Stephenson

1803 - 1859
1801-1861, surgeon; possible inventor of the hypodermic syringe, Irish

Francis Rynd

1801 - 1861
1788-1875, print seller; publisher, active London

McLean, Thomas

1788 - 1875
1793-1830, active 1820s, ironmonger; nail manufacturer; brassfounder, British

Isaac Earlysman Sparrow

1793 - 1830

Alfred Kitching

1808 - 1882
1798-2000, publisher, Edinburgh, Scotland

Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited

1798 - 2000
1796-1848, inventor of textile machines, French

Joshua Heilmann

1796 - 1848
1808-1835, scientific instrument maker, French

Antoine-Hippolyte Pixii

1808 - 1835
1800-1883, manufacturer of patent medicines; philanthropist, British

Thomas Holloway

1800 - 1883
1799-1883, bobbin manufacturer; aeronautical engineer; portrait photographer, English, British

John Stringfellow

1799 - 1883
1800-1877, pioneer of photography; photographer, English; British

William Henry Fox Talbot

1800 - 1877
1809-1854, publisher, British

S and J Fuller

1809 - 1854
1802-1892, amateur photographer, British

Samuel Smith

1802 - 1892