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Alexander Parkes

1813 - 1890
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
Sir

Charles Wheatstone

1802 - 1875
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
active 1826-1879, wax modeller, English; British

Joseph Towne

1806 - 1879
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
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
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
1802-1966, British Army regiment, British

Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)

1802 - 1966
Sir

William George Armstrong

1810 - 1900
1809-1882, naturalist; geologist; originator of the theory of natural selection, British

Charles Darwin

1809 - 1882

Robert Stephenson

1803 - 1859
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
1808-1835, scientific instrument maker, French

Antoine-Hippolyte Pixii

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

Thomas Holloway

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

William Henry Fox Talbot

1800 - 1877
1898-1915, magazine, English; British

The Girl's Realm

1811 - 1911
1809-1854, publisher, British

S and J Fuller

1809 - 1854
1802-1892, amateur photographer, British

Samuel Smith

1802 - 1892
Mr

William Henry Fox Talbot

1802 - 1877
1806-1859, civil engineer, England, British

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

1806 - 1859
1815-1880, cast maker (sculpture), Italian; British (naturalised?)

Domenico Brucciani

1815 - 1880

John Taylor

1808 - 1881

Pease, Henry (1807-1881) Quaker Railway Promoter MP

1807 - 1881
Mr

Alexander John Ellis

1814 - 1890
active 1807-1854, sanitary reformer, English

George Alfred Walker

1807 - 1854
1814-1879, glassblower; scientific instrument maker, German

Heinrich Geissler

1814 - 1879
1808-1874, inventor; ship's propeller patentee; marine engineer, England, British

Francis Petit Smith

1808 - 1874

Peter Hubert Desvignes

1804 - 1883
1801-1883, physicist, inventor, Belgium

Joseph Plateau

1801 - 1883

John Scott Russell

1808 - 1882
1812-1890, organ builder; bicycle designer, German

Philipp Moritz Fischer

1812 - 1890
1813-1898, steel manufacturer, English; British

Henry Bessemer

1813 - 1898