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

1828 - 1903

Desvignes, Peter Hubert

1808 - 1883

Rickett, Thomas

1825

Paxton, Joseph

1803 - 1865

Ayrton, Hertha

1854 - 1923

Bentall, Edward Hammond

1814 - 1898

E R and F Turner Limited

1837

Scamp, William

1801 - 1872

Hume, William Fraser

1867 - 1949

Nightingale, Florence

1820 - 1910

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904

Siemens Brothers and Company Limited

1865 - 2002

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890

Chapman Jones, Henry

1854 - 1932
active 1828-1947, marine & aeronautical navigational instrument maker, London, England, British

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
1862-1918, marine engineers, Dunbarton, Scotland, Scottish; British

Denny and Company

1862 - 1918

Buckland, Francis Trevelyan

1826 - 1880

Dancer, John Benjamin

1812 - 1887

Brothers, Alfred

1826 - 1912
active 1868-1968, optical instrument maker; clock maker, Manchester, England

Thomas Armstrong and Brother

1868 - 1968
1860-1935, electrical engineer; film-maker, inventor, born Brittany, France

Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie

1860 - 1935
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Lovelace, Ada

1815 - 1852
1863-1944, chemist; inventor, Belgian; American

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik

1863 - 1944
active c. 1894-1968, optical instrument maker, London, England

R and J Beck Limited

1867 - 1968
1827-1894, active 1854, sewing machine manufacturer, British

Wilson, William Newton

1827 - 1894

Johnston, James Finlay Weir

1796 - 1855

Parry, William Edward

1790 - 1855

Babbage, Benjamin Herschel

1815 - 1878

Price, John

1846 - 1913
1850-1917, inventor, film maker, chronophotographer, physiologist, French

Demeny, Georges

1850 - 1917
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912
1847-1908, electrical engineer; physicist, British

Ayrton, William Edward

1847 - 1908
1829-1901, physiologist, German

Fick, Adolf Eugen

1829 - 1901
1820-1900, physician; surgeon, British; English

Adams, William

1820 - 1900
1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

Morton, William Thomas Green

1819 - 1868
1825-about 1980s, manufacturer, West Bromwich, Sandwell, West Midlands, England, British

George Salter and Company

1825 - 1990
1845-c1955, optical instrument, lens and camera makers, Germany

Emil Busch AG

1845

Corbett, Joseph

1842 - 1913

Winkles, H.

1801 - 1860

Durand, Elias

1794 - 1873

Boubee, Neree

1806 - 1863

Greville, Robert Kaye

1794 - 1866

Kitching, Alfred

1808 - 1882

Brewer, Griffith

1867 - 1948

Smiles, Samuel

1812 - 1904

Watson, John

1816 - 1862

Hind, John Russell (FRS FAS)

1823 - 1895

Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

1810 - 1897

Shallcross Stone, Flora

1851 - 1875