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

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947
1836-1917, physician, British

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

1836 - 1917
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Joseph Lister

1827 - 1912
1838-1907, chemist, English; British

William Henry Perkin

1838 - 1907
active 1829-1895, microbiologist; chemist, French

Louis Pasteur

1822 - 1895
active 1829-1928, surgical instrument maker, London, England, British

Arnold and Sons

1829 - 1928
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Robert Koch

1843 - 1910
Sir

Joseph Wilson Swan

1828 - 1914
1829-1901, physiologist, German

Adolf Eugen Fick

1829 - 1901
active 1834-1981, manufacturers of glass, Barnsley, England

Wood Brothers Glass Company Limited

1834 - 1981
1837-c.1969, optical instrument manufacturer, London, England

W Watson and Sons Limited

1837 - 1969
1845-c1955, optical instrument, lens and camera makers, Germany

Emil Busch AG

1845
1836-1906, camera manufacturer, Northern Irish; British

Samuel Dunseith McKellen

1836 - 1906
1820-1910, reformer of Army medical services and of nursing, British; English

Florence Nightingale

1820 - 1910
active 1878-1911, scientific instrument manufacturer, London, England

James Joseph Hicks

1837 - 1916
1820-1962, periodical and magazine, London

John Bull Magazine

1820 - 1962
1832-2002, manufacturer, Newton-le-Willows, England

The Vulcan Foundry

1832 - 2002
Inventor of the modern knuckle coupler. 1831-1912

Eli Hamilton Janey

1831 - 1912
1844-1940, physicist; inventor, French

Edouard Branly

1844 - 1940
1844-1918, inventor, artist, France

Charles-Emile Reynaud

1844 - 1918
1842-1978, camera and film manufacturer, Binghamton, N.Y.

Ansco

1842 - 1967
1827-1894, active 1854, sewing machine manufacturer, British

William Newton Wilson

1827 - 1894

Otto Lilienthal

1848 - 1896
1822-1911, biostatistician, human geneticist & eugenicist, English, British

Francis Galton

1822 - 1911
1847-1931, inventor; scientist, American

Thomas Alva Edison

1847 - 1931
Sir

Hiram Stevens Maxim

1840 - 1916
1847-1966, manufacturer of ceramics, Stoke on Trent, England

W T Copeland and Sons Limited

1847 - 1966
active 1832-1922, optician & mathematical instrument maker, Dublin, Ireland

Yeates and Son

1832 - 1922
1839-1932, shipping company, British

Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

1839 - 1932
1828-1918, manufacturer of engines; manufacturer of agricultural machinery, Grantham, England

R. Hornsby and Sons Limited

1828 - 1918
Mr

James Mudd

1821 - 1906
1835-1955, opticians, optics and photographic and camera maker, Birmingham

J Lancaster and Son

1835 - 1955

Manchester Corporation Waterworks

1848 - 1971
1839-1902, manufacturing jeweller; goldsmith; silversith, London, England

Phillips Brothers and Sons

1839 - 1902
1845-c. 1955, lens manufacturer; scientific instrument maker, Paris, France

Lerebours et Secretan

1845 - 1955
active 1824-1963, glass manufacturer, Smethwick, Staffordshire, England, British

Chance Brothers Limited

1824 - 1963
1835-1992, lithographer; engraver; printer, Glasgow

MacLure and MacDonald

1835 - 1992
1830-present (2011), supplier of garage tools and equipment, London, England, British

Buck and Hickman Limited

1830
1847-1922, teacher of deaf people; inventor of telephone, Scottish; American

Alexander Graham Bell

1847 - 1922
1832-1914, artist, British

William Ascroft

1832 - 1914
c.1829-1905, active from 1857, photographer, French, active in Asia

Oscar Jean Baptiste Mallitte

1829 - 1905
1824-1880, surgeon, pathologist; anthropologist, French

Paul Broca

1824 - 1880
c.1826 - 1989, map maker, Edinburgh

The Edinburgh Geographical Institute

1826 - 1989
1824-1884, scientific instrument maker, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scottish; British

James White

1824 - 1884
1833-1900 (1962), photographer; lithographer, British

Thomas Fall

1833 - 1900
1828-1903, locomotive manufacturer, Manchester, England

Sharp Stewart and Company Limited

1828 - 1903
1845-1867, manufacturer of gutta-percha products, London, England

Gutta Percha Company

1845 - 1867
1845-1978, engineers and machinery manufacturers, Salford and Manchester, England

Mather and Platt Limited

1845 - 1978
active 1863-1918, optician, optical designer, spectacle manufacturer & collector, English; British

Matthew William Dunscombe

1841 - 1918
1848-1928, Inventor, American, America

Lewis Howard Latimer

1848 - 1928