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active 1869, inventor; engineer, American; Northern Irish born;

Alexander Kirk Rider

1820 - 1893
1852-1931, active in field of anaesthesiology

Walter Tyrrell

1852 - 1931
1847-1922, teacher of deaf people; inventor of telephone, Scottish; American

Alexander Graham Bell

1847 - 1922
1848-1863, railway company, Scotland, United Kingdom

Dundee, Perth & Aberdeen Railway Junction

1848 - 1863
Collector of prints and drawings.

Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt

1840 - 1914
1820-1889; engineer; geographer; India; Scottish

Henry Yule

1820 - 1889
1859 machine tools maker, Salford, Yorkshire, England, British

Smith and Coventry Limited

1859 - 1929
1816-1903, engraver, British, United Kingdom

Henry Papprill

1816 - 1903
active 1832-1922, optician & mathematical instrument maker, Dublin, Ireland

Yeates and Son

1832 - 1922
1852-1926, amateur photographer, brewer, British

Edgar Tarry Adams

1852 - 1926
1838-1900, meteorologist, British

George James Symons

1838 - 1900
1847-1931, inventor; scientist, American

Thomas Alva Edison

1847 - 1931
1816-1889, railway engineer; executive, British

Daniel Gooch

1816 - 1889
1851-1926, physician; medical administrator; surgeon; writer, British

James Cantlie

1851 - 1926
1854-1912, railway company, United Kingdom

London, Tilbury & Southend Railway

1854 - 1912
1834-1839, railway company, United Kingdom

London & Southampton Railway

1834 - 1839
1816-1888, railway engineer; civil engineer, British

Thomas Russell Crampton

1816 - 1888
1832-1907, surgeon, British; Scottish

Patrick Heron Watson

1832 - 1907
1843-1877, soldier; photographer, British

Captain Hugh Bladen Swiney

1843 - 1877
1854-1932, inventor; businessman, American

George Eastman

1854 - 1932
1854-1923, railway administrator, London

John Jennings Brewer

1854 - 1923
1837-1936, physician; pathologist; hygienist, French

Paul Camille Hippolyte Brouardel

1837 - 1906
1820-1910, reformer of Army medical services and of nursing, British; English

Florence Nightingale

1820 - 1910
active 1844-1929, patentee of the Lowne's portable spirometer, British

Robert Mann Lowne

1844 - 1929
1854, vessel; screw sloop

HMS Curlew (1854)

1854 - 1865
1824-1893, brewer, benefactor, Scottish, British

Andrew Barclay Walker

1824 - 1893
1844-1909, mineralogist, mining engineer, mineral dealer & collector, Paris, France

Émile Bertrand

1844 - 1909
1859-1927, chemist, Swedish

Svante August Arrhenius

1859 - 1927
1835-1916, astronomer; meteorologist, Norwegian

Henrik Mohn

1835 - 1916
bap. 1817-1876, sculptor, English; British

Matthew N Noble

1817 - 1876
1820-1896, civil engineer, England, British

Peter John Margary

1820 - 1896
1853-1917, inventor; camera manufacturer; manufacturer of optical devices; camera retailer, Belgian

Louis van

1853 - 1917
Detroit-based portrait photographer, active late 19th-early 20th century

James Arthur

1855 - 1912
active 1850-1869, chartered civil engineer, England, British

William Ellis Metford

1824 - 1899
active 1830s-1860s, sculptor; medallist, French

Adrien Vauthier-Gallé

1818 - 1899
Inventor of Linotype machine, 1854-1899, German

Ottmar Mergenthaler

1854 - 1899
1850-1923, surgeon, British; English

William Harrison Cripps

1850 - 1923
1819-1875, novelist; Church of England clergyman; controversialist, British

Charles Kingsley

1819 - 1875
1837-1925, locomotive engineer, British

James Holden

1837 - 1925
1840-1916, engineer; inventor, American-born, British

Hiram Stevens Maxim

1840 - 1916
1851-1940, physicist, English; British

Oliver Joseph Lodge

1851 - 1940
1832-1914, dermatologist, French

Jean Alfred Fournier

1832 - 1914
1849-1962, locomotive works, Gorton, Manchester

Gorton Works

1849 - 1962
1842-1978, camera and film manufacturer, Binghamton, N.Y.

Ansco

1842 - 1967
1816-1896, textile merchant; telegraph entrepreneur; submarine communications cable pioneer, British; Scottish

John Pender

1816 - 1896
1840-1905, engineer, British

William Dean

1840 - 1905
1857-1947, artist, Irish; British

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1857 - 1947
c1840-1882, photographer, United States, Irish; American

Timothy H O'Sullivan

1840 - 1882
1818-1858, physician; surgeon, British

Thomas Stack

1818 - 1858
1860-1935, electrical engineer; film-maker, inventor, born Brittany, France

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson

1860 - 1935