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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
1839-1932, shipping company, British

Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

1839 - 1932
1838-;glass manufacturer; politician; photographer; UK

Stone, Benjamin

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

Hill, George William

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

Tasset, Ernest Paulin

1839 - 1921
1839-1916, professor of chemistry, Romanian

Teclu, Nicolae

1839 - 1916
1838-1907, chemist, English; British

Perkin, Sir William Henry

1838 - 1907
1838-1900, meteorologist, British

Symons, George James

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

Zeppelin, Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich von

1838 - 1917
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

Perkin, Sir William Henry

1838 - 1907

Plummer, John James

1806 - 1907

Carus-Wilson, Charles Ashley

1812 - 1942

Kingett, James Charles

1811 - 1916

Darbyshire, Alfred

1839 - 1908

Barton, Robert

1839 - 1839

Mond, Ludwig

1839 - 1909

Leader, Robert Eadon

1839 - 1922

Peacock, Ralph

1838 - 1928

Maw, William Henry

1838 - 1924

Daglish, George Heaton

1839 - 1913
1839-1919, locomotive engineer, British

Kirtley, W

1839 - 1919
1839-1902, manufacturing jeweller; goldsmith; silversith, London, England

Phillips Brothers and Sons

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

Strowger, Almon Brown

1839 - 1902
1839-1882, electrical engineer, French

Leclanché, Georges L

1839 - 1882
1839-1902, director of the Royal Italian Navy's Hydrographical Office, Italy

Magnaghi, G. B.

1839 - 1902
1839-1914, Prince of Romania

Carol I, Prince of Romania

1839 - 1914
1839-1924, chemist, French

Bernigaud, comte de Chardonnet, Hilaire

1839 - 1924
1839-1913, inventor; typewriter company founder, American

Hammond, James Bartlett

1839 - 1913
1839-1913, mechanical engineer, British

Daglish, George Heaton

1839 - 1913

Lang, Viktor von

1838 - 1921

Berndt, Rudolph

1838 - 1919

Watherston, Edward James

1839 - 1904
1839-1912, mechanical engineer; scientific instrument maker, British

Munro, Robert William

1839 - 1912
1838-1862, railway company, Scottish

Dundee & Arbroath Railway

1838 - 1880
1860-1903, railway company, Northern Ireland

Belfast & Northern Counties Railway

1805 - 1903
1878-1924, railway company, United Kingdom

Ballycastle Railway

1812 - 1924
1838-1907, photographer, artist; enameller, British; Scottish

Henderson, Alexander Lamont

1838 - 1907
1839-1846, railway company, Cheddington

Aylesbury Railway

1839 - 1846

Kay, Fred Lawton

1811 - 1969

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904

Bailey, Sir William Henry (J. P.)

1838 - 1913

Biggs, Theodore James

1806 - 1906

Seeley, Harry Govier

1839 - 1909

Graf von Zeppelin, Ferdinand

1838 - 1917

Grimshaw, Harry

1810 - 1901
1897-1968, engineering and manufacturing: agricultural; marine; civil; and aeronautical, Norwich, Norfolk, England, British

Boulton and Paul Limited

1812 - 1968
1839-1916, engraver; medallist; sculptor, Swedish

Lindberg, Johan Adolf

1839 - 1916