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

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947

Alexander Parkes

1813 - 1890
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Joseph Lister

1827 - 1912
1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

William Thomas Green Morton

1819 - 1868
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis

1818 - 1865
active 1829-1895, microbiologist; chemist, French

Louis Pasteur

1822 - 1895
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Ada Lovelace

1815 - 1852
Sir

Joseph Wilson Swan

1828 - 1914
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
1825-about 1980s, manufacturer, West Bromwich, Sandwell, West Midlands, England, British

George Salter and Company

1825 - 1990
Sir

Charles Wheatstone

1802 - 1875
1820-1910, reformer of Army medical services and of nursing, British; English

Florence Nightingale

1820 - 1910
1820-1962, periodical and magazine, London

John Bull Magazine

1820 - 1962
1818-1984, lock and safe manufacturer, England, British

Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company Limited

1818 - 1984
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
1818-1889, physicist, English, British

James Prescott Joule

1818 - 1889
1810-c. 1960, poster printer; printer, Dunstable and London

Waterlow and Sons Limited

1810 - 1960
1827-1894, active 1854, sewing machine manufacturer, British

William Newton Wilson

1827 - 1894
1822-1911, biostatistician, human geneticist & eugenicist, English, British

Francis Galton

1822 - 1911
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

George Jennings

1810 - 1882
1828-1918, manufacturer of engines; manufacturer of agricultural machinery, Grantham, England

R. Hornsby and Sons Limited

1828 - 1918
Mr

James Mudd

1821 - 1906
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

August Wilhelm Hofmann

1818 - 1892
active 1824-1963, glass manufacturer, Smethwick, Staffordshire, England, British

Chance Brothers Limited

1824 - 1963

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979
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
1824-1880, surgeon, pathologist; anthropologist, French

Paul Broca

1824 - 1880
1808-1914, optical, mathematical & philosophical (globes) instrument makers, London, England, British

Carpenter and Westley

1808 - 1914
c.1826 - 1989, map maker, Edinburgh

The Edinburgh Geographical Institute

1826 - 1989
1818-present, lamp manufacturer, Stoke Newington

Tilley Ltd

1818
locomotive engineer, German-born; British; LGBTQIA+

Charles Frederick Beyer

1813 - 1876
1824-1884, scientific instrument maker, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scottish; British

James White

1824 - 1884
1828-1903, locomotive manufacturer, Manchester, England

Sharp Stewart and Company Limited

1828 - 1903
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

Daniel Gooch

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

Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)

1802 - 1966
1825-1893, neurologist; professor of anatomical pathology, French

Jean Martin Charcot

1825 - 1893
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