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1838-1907, chemist, English; British

Perkin, Sir William Henry

1838 - 1907
1839-1932, shipping company, British

Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

1839 - 1932
1837-c.1969, optical instrument manufacturer, London, England

W Watson and Sons Limited

1837 - 1969

Plummer, John James

1806 - 1907

Carus-Wilson, Charles Ashley

1812 - 1942

Barton, Robert

1839 - 1839

Leader, Robert Eadon

1839 - 1922

Maw, William Henry

1838 - 1924

Daglish, George Heaton

1839 - 1913

Mond, Ludwig

1839 - 1909
Collector of prints and drawings.

Goldschmidt, Rudolf Philip

1840 - 1914
1837-1936, physician; pathologist; hygienist, French

Brouardel, Paul Camille Hippolyte

1837 - 1906
c1840-1882, photographer, United States, Irish; American

O'Sullivan, Timothy H

1840 - 1882
1839-1897, optical instrument maker, German-born; British

Hilger, Adam

1839 - 1897
1886-1923, Met Office employee, RNVR Lieutenant, RAF Flight Lieutenant, British

Gendle, Albert Edgar

1809 - 1923
c. 1840, d. 1920, music composer; teacher; singer, British? active Italy, Spain, London

Slater, Edward

1840 - 1920
1837-1925, locomotive engineer, British

Holden, James

1837 - 1925
1838-;glass manufacturer; politician; photographer; UK

Stone, Benjamin

1838 - 1914
1840-1912, physician; toxicologist; forensic scientist; university professor, British

Mann, John Dixon

1840 - 1912
1840-1905, engineer, British

Dean, William

1840 - 1905
1840-1892, physician; naturalist; governor, German

Schnitzer, Eduard

1840 - 1892
1837-1847, railway company, Chester

Chester & Birkenhead Railway

1837 - 1847
1838-1914, astronomer; mathematician, American

Hill, George William

1838 - 1914
b. 1839, active 1870s-1910s, medallist, French

Tasset, Ernest Paulin

1839 - 1921
1840-1905, physicist; optical researcher; optical designer, German

Abbe, Ernst Karl

1840 - 1905
1839-1916, professor of chemistry, Romanian

Teclu, Nicolae

1839 - 1916
1837-1903, active 1860s, photographer; printer, British

Edwards, Ernest

1837 - 1903
1840-1901, Consort of Frederick, Emperor of Germany

Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa

1840 - 1901
1838-1862, railway company, Scottish

Dundee & Arbroath Railway

1838 - 1880
1838-1917, inventor of 1900s airship; aircraft manufacturer, German

Zeppelin, Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich von

1838 - 1917
1860-1903, railway company, Northern Ireland

Belfast & Northern Counties Railway

1805 - 1903
1837-1935, soap powder manufacturers, West Bromwich, England, British

Hudson's

1837 - 1935
active 1839-1889, pharmaceutical manufacturer, Dagenham, London, England

May and Baker

1839 - 1889
1839-1909, chemical manufacturer and industrialist, German born; British

Mond, Ludwig

1839 - 1909
1840-1921, inventor, British

Dunlop, John Boyd

1840 - 1921
1839-1846, railway company, Cheddington

Aylesbury Railway

1839 - 1846
1840-1852, railway company, British

Stockton & Hartlepool Railway

1840 - 1852
1840-1913, astronomer, Irish

Ball, Sir Robert Stawell

1840 - 1913
1837-1902, lawyer, English; British

Brunel, Isambard

1837 - 1902
1837-1884, die-engraver, British; English

Wyon, Alfred Benjamin

1837 - 1884
1839-1919, locomotive engineer, British

Kirtley, W

1839 - 1919
1840-1921, professor of Chemistry, British

Mills, Edmund James

1840 - 1921
1839-1902, manufacturing jeweller; goldsmith; silversith, London, England

Phillips Brothers and Sons

1839 - 1902
c1837-1922, railway company, South America

Demerara Railway

1837 - 1922
1837-1883, circus performer known as General Tom Thumb, American

Stratton, Charles Sherwood

1837 - 1883
1840-1916, engineer; inventor, American-born, British

Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens

1840 - 1916
1839-1902, inventor of the automatic telephone exchange, American

Strowger, Almon Brown

1839 - 1902
1839-1882, electrical engineer, French

Leclanché, Georges L

1839 - 1882
1840-1917, merchant; politician; Chairman of the Great Northern Railway, British; English

Jackson, William Lawies

1840 - 1917
1840-1874, railway company, Northumberland

Blyth & Tyne Railway

1840 - 1874