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Hiram Stevens Maxim

1840 - 1916
1839-1932, shipping company, British

Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

1839 - 1932
1839-1902, manufacturing jeweller; goldsmith; silversith, London, England

Phillips Brothers and Sons

1839 - 1902
1839-1913, optical, mathematical & electrical instrument maker, British

Alfred Apps

1839 - 1913
1898-1915, magazine, English; British

The Girl's Realm

1811 - 1911
active 1839-1889, pharmaceutical manufacturer, Dagenham, London, England

May and Baker

1839 - 1889
1840-1916, engineer; inventor, American-born, British

Hiram Stevens Maxim

1840 - 1916
active 1839-1920, manufacturing chemist, British

Clay and Abraham Limited

1839 - 1920
1840-1912, engineer, British; Scottish

Dugald Drummond

1840 - 1912
1840 - c 1900, lithographic publishing house, London

M and N Hanhart

1840 - 1900
1840-1843, publisher; bookseller, London

Tilt and Bogue

1840 - 1843

Theodore James Biggs

1806 - 1906
1840-1894, printmaker, English; British

Le Blond and Co

1840 - 1894

Harry Govier Seeley

1839 - 1909
1839-current (2020), manufacturer of pharmaceuticals; chemist; druggist, Brighton & Barnstaple, Eng

Arthur H Cox and Company Limited

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

Adam Hilger

1839 - 1897
b. 1839, active 1870s-1910s, medallist, French

Ernest Paulin Tasset

1839 - 1921
1840-1913, artist; caricaturist, Austrian

Friedrich Graetz

1840 - 1913

William Henry Fowler

1807 - 1904
1886-1923, Met Office employee, RNVR Lieutenant, RAF Flight Lieutenant, British

Albert Edgar Gendle

1809 - 1923
1839-1919, meteorologist, experimental scientist, Scottish; British

John Aitken

1839 - 1919
1840-1919, photographer, Watford, Hertfordshire, English, British

Frederick Downer

1840 - 1919
1840-1905, engineer, British

William Dean

1840 - 1905
1897-1968, engineering and manufacturing: agricultural; marine; civil; and aeronautical, Norwich, Norfolk, England, British

Boulton and Paul Limited

1812 - 1968
1839-1902, inventor of the automatic telephone exchange, American

Almon Brown Strowger

1839 - 1902

Charles Ashley Carus-Wilson

1812 - 1942
1878-1924, railway company, United Kingdom

Ballycastle Railway

1812 - 1924
Mr

Alfred Darbyshire

1839 - 1908
1840-1844, railway company, British

North Midland Railway

1840 - 1844
1839-1911, physician; surgeon; pathologist, French

Paul Georges Dieulafoy

1839 - 1911
1839-1916, engraver; medallist; sculptor, Swedish

Johan Adolf Lindberg

1839 - 1916
1840-1905, physicist; optical researcher; optical designer, German

Ernst Karl Abbe

1840 - 1905
1839-1900, engineer; industrialist, Bohemian; Czech

Emil Skoda

1839 - 1900
1839-1889, artist; caricaturist for Vanity Fair, Italian; British

Carlo Pellegrini

1803 - 1889

Downer, Frederick

1840 - 1919
1839-1916, professor of chemistry, Romanian

Nicolae Teclu

1839 - 1916
c. 1840, d. 1920, music composer; teacher; singer, British? active Italy, Spain, London

Edward Slater

1840 - 1920
1840-1921, civil engineer, English; British

Charles Douglas Fox

1840 - 1921
1839-1912, mechanical engineer; scientific instrument maker, British

Robert William Munro

1839 - 1912
1840-1892, physician; naturalist; governor, German

Eduard Schnitzer

1840 - 1892

Robert Eadon Leader

1839 - 1922
1839-1846, railway company, Cheddington

Aylesbury Railway

1839 - 1846
1839-1909, chemical manufacturer and industrialist, German born; British

Ludwig Mond

1839 - 1909
1839-1917, organic chemist, American

James Mason Crafts

1839 - 1917
1840-1980, dispensing chemist; manufacturing chemist; druggist, Rotherham, England

Humphrey Davy and Son Limited, Humphrey

1840 - 1980
1839-1894, photographer, Austrian

Victor Angerer

1839 - 1894
1840-1891, locomotive superintendent, British; Scottish

Hugh Smellie

1840 - 1891
1865-1944, zoologist, author, British

Harold Hulme Brindley

1806 - 1944
1839-1917, magician, British

John Nevil Maskelyne

1839 - 1917
2nd Lieutenant

Fred Lawton Kay

1811 - 1969