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Alexander Parkes

1813 - 1890

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Ada Lovelace

1815 - 1852
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Edwin Chadwick

1800 - 1890
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

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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

Anna Atkins

1799 - 1871
Sir

Charles Wheatstone

1802 - 1875
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
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

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve

1793 - 1864
active 1826-1879, wax modeller, English; British

Joseph Towne

1806 - 1879
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
1800-1970's?, button manufacturer, London

Jennens and Company Limited

1800

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
1813-1897, zoologist, Danish, Denmark

Steenstrup, Johannes Japetus Smith

1813 - 1897

George Hudson

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

Carpenter and Westley

1808 - 1914
locomotive engineer, German-born; British; LGBTQIA+

Charles Frederick Beyer

1813 - 1876
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

Richard Beamish

1798 - 1873
1806-1875, neurologist, France

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin Amand

1806 - 1875
1814-1896, artist; printmaker, British

John Cooke Bourne

1814 - 1896
Sir

Daniel Gooch

1816 - 1889
1802-1966, British Army regiment, British

Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)

1802 - 1966
Sir

William George Armstrong

1810 - 1900
1791-1867, natural philosopher; scientific adviser, England, British

Michael Faraday

1791 - 1867
1798-1884, chemist; pharmacist, English

Peter Squire

1798 - 1884
1809-1882, naturalist; geologist; originator of the theory of natural selection, British

Charles Darwin

1809 - 1882

Robert Stephenson

1803 - 1859
Sir

John Frederick William Herschel

1792 - 1871

Priscilla Susan Bury

1799 - 1872
active 1832-1859 , optician and optical instrument maker, French

Charles Louis Chevalier

1804 - 1859
1801-1861, surgeon; possible inventor of the hypodermic syringe, Irish

Francis Rynd

1801 - 1861
1793-1830, active 1820s, ironmonger; nail manufacturer; brassfounder, British

Isaac Earlysman Sparrow

1793 - 1830

Alfred Kitching

1808 - 1882
1800-1883, manufacturer of patent medicines; philanthropist, British

Thomas Holloway

1800 - 1883
1808-1835, scientific instrument maker, French

Antoine-Hippolyte Pixii

1808 - 1835
1798-2000, publisher, Edinburgh, Scotland

Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited

1798 - 2000
1799-1883, bobbin manufacturer; aeronautical engineer; portrait photographer, English, British

John Stringfellow

1799 - 1883
1796-1848, inventor of textile machines, French

Joshua Heilmann

1796 - 1848
1800-1877, pioneer of photography; photographer, English; British

William Henry Fox Talbot

1800 - 1877