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

Henry Mayhew

1812 - 1887

August Wilhelm Hofmann

1818 - 1892

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979
Mr

George Bradshaw

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

John Benjamin Dancer

1812 - 1887
1819-1891, civil engineer, English; British

Joseph William Bazalgette

1819 - 1891
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
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
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
1798-1884, chemist; pharmacist, English

Peter Squire

1798 - 1884
Sir

Daniel Gooch

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

Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)

1802 - 1966
1809-1882, naturalist; geologist; originator of the theory of natural selection, British

Charles Darwin

1809 - 1882

Robert Stephenson

1803 - 1859

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

Alfred Kitching

1808 - 1882
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