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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
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
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
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

George Jennings

1810 - 1882
Mr

John Benjamin Dancer

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

Henry Mayhew

1812 - 1887

August Wilhelm Hofmann

1818 - 1892

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979
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
1818-present, lamp manufacturer, Stoke Newington

Tilley Ltd

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

Charles Frederick Beyer

1813 - 1876
1814-1896, artist; printmaker, British

John Cooke Bourne

1814 - 1896
1809-1882, naturalist; geologist; originator of the theory of natural selection, British

Charles Darwin

1809 - 1882
1808-1890, mechanical engineer; amateur astronomer, Scottish; British

James Hall Nasmyth

1808 - 1890
Sir

William George Armstrong

1810 - 1900
Sir

Daniel Gooch

1816 - 1889
1860-1903, railway company, Northern Ireland

Belfast & Northern Counties Railway

1805 - 1903
1817-1889, metallurgist; physician, British

John Percy

1817 - 1889

Alfred Kitching

1808 - 1882
1809-1854, publisher, British

S and J Fuller

1809 - 1854
1808-1835, scientific instrument maker, French

Antoine-Hippolyte Pixii

1808 - 1835
1898-1915, magazine, English; British

The Girl's Realm

1811 - 1911
Mr

Alexander John Ellis

1814 - 1890

John Taylor

1808 - 1881

Thomas Russell Crampton

1816 - 1888
1815-1880, cast maker (sculpture), Italian; British (naturalised?)

Domenico Brucciani

1815 - 1880
1818-1891, photographer; daguerreotypist, British

William Edward Kilburn

1818 - 1891
1808-1874, inventor; ship's propeller patentee; marine engineer, England, British

Francis Petit Smith

1808 - 1874
active 1849-1886, optician, optical designer & optical instrument maker, French

Jules Duboscq

1817 - 1886
1814-1879, glassblower; scientific instrument maker, German

Heinrich Geissler

1814 - 1879
1813-1898, steel manufacturer, English; British

Henry Bessemer

1813 - 1898
1816-1968, manufacturer of pharmaceutical products, Edinburgh, Scotland

Duncan Flockhart and Company Limited

1816

John Scott Russell

1808 - 1882
1813-1871, photographer; biologist, French

Auguste Adolphe Bertsch

1813 - 1871
1810-2005, manufacturer of tobacco and cigarettes, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Murray, Sons and Company Limited

1810 - 2005
1817-1835, printseller, barometer maker; optician; publisher; clock dealer; optical instrument dealer, Manchester, England

Zanetti and Agnew

1817 - 1835

Francis Trevithick

1812 - 1877
1816-1899, news agency founder, German; British

Paul Julius Reuter

1816 - 1899
1809-1852, lithographer, British

George Hawkins

1809 - 1852
baptised 1818, d. 1883, public executioner, British

William Marwood

1818 - 1883
1812-1877, cartographer; geographical publisher, British; English

James Wyld

1812 - 1877

Henry Hyde Clarke

1815 - 1895