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Alexander Parkes

1813 - 1890
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis

1818 - 1865
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

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve

1793 - 1864
active 1818-1856, optician, optical, mathematical & philosophical instrument maker, London, England

Watkins & Hill

1818 - 1856
1818-1984, lock and safe manufacturer, England, British

Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company Limited

1818 - 1984
1810-c. 1960, poster printer; printer, Dunstable and London

Waterlow and Sons Limited

1810 - 1960
1818-1889, physicist, English, British

James Prescott Joule

1818 - 1889
1806-1992, silversmiths, platers and metal workers, Sheffield

James Dixon & Sons

1806 - 1992
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

George Jennings

1810 - 1882
active 1826-1879, wax modeller, English; British

Joseph Towne

1806 - 1879
Mr

John Benjamin Dancer

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

Henry Mayhew

1812 - 1887
1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Walter Hancock

1799 - 1852
1800-1970's?, button manufacturer, London

Jennens and Company Limited

1800

August Wilhelm Hofmann

1818 - 1892

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979
active 1800-1963, manufacturer of hearing aids, London, England

FC Rein and Son, FC Rein &

1800 - 1963
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
1808-1914, optical, mathematical & philosophical (globes) instrument makers, London, England, British

Carpenter and Westley

1808 - 1914

George Hudson

1800 - 1871
1792-1851, inventor of ticket-printing machinery, British

Thomas Edmondson

1792 - 1851
locomotive engineer, German-born; British; LGBTQIA+

Charles Frederick Beyer

1813 - 1876
1818-present, lamp manufacturer, Stoke Newington

Tilley Ltd

1818

Richard Beamish

1798 - 1873
1808-1890, mechanical engineer; amateur astronomer, Scottish; British

James Hall Nasmyth

1808 - 1890
1798-1884, chemist; pharmacist, English

Peter Squire

1798 - 1884
1806-1875, neurologist, France

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin Amand

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

John Cooke Bourne

1814 - 1896
Sir

William George Armstrong

1810 - 1900
Sir

Daniel Gooch

1816 - 1889
1809-1882, naturalist; geologist; originator of the theory of natural selection, British

Charles Darwin

1809 - 1882
1802-1966, British Army regiment, British

Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)

1802 - 1966
1803-active, printer, British

William Clowes & Sons Ltd.

1803

Robert Stephenson

1803 - 1859
1860-1903, railway company, Northern Ireland

Belfast & Northern Counties Railway

1805 - 1903
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
1793-1830, active 1820s, ironmonger; nail manufacturer; brassfounder, British

Isaac Earlysman Sparrow

1793 - 1830
1801-1861, surgeon; possible inventor of the hypodermic syringe, Irish

Francis Rynd

1801 - 1861