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

Matthew William Dunscombe

1841 - 1918
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
1841-1903, astronomer; astronomical photographer, English; British

Andrew Anslie Common

1841 - 1903
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
1835-1985, museum, London, England

Geological Museum

1841 - 1985
1840-1843, publisher; bookseller, London

Tilt and Bogue

1840 - 1843
1841-1914, inventor of a semi-automatic bottle-making machine, British

Howard Matravers Ashley

1841 - 1914

Theodore James Biggs

1806 - 1906
1839-current (2020), manufacturer of pharmaceuticals; chemist; druggist, Brighton & Barnstaple, Eng

Arthur H Cox and Company Limited

1839
1840-1894, printmaker, English; British

Le Blond and Co

1840 - 1894

Harry Govier Seeley

1839 - 1909

William Henry Fowler

1807 - 1904
b. 1839, active 1870s-1910s, medallist, French

Ernest Paulin Tasset

1839 - 1921
1839-1897, optical instrument maker, German-born; British

Adam Hilger

1839 - 1897
1840-1913, artist; caricaturist, Austrian

Friedrich Graetz

1840 - 1913
1897-1968, engineering and manufacturing: agricultural; marine; civil; and aeronautical, Norwich, Norfolk, England, British

Boulton and Paul Limited

1812 - 1968
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Emma Saunders

1841 - 1927
1840-1919, photographer, Watford, Hertfordshire, English, British

Frederick Downer

1840 - 1919
1840-1905, engineer, British

William Dean

1840 - 1905
1886-1923, Met Office employee, RNVR Lieutenant, RAF Flight Lieutenant, British

Albert Edgar Gendle

1809 - 1923

Charles Ashley Carus-Wilson

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

Ballycastle Railway

1812 - 1924
1839-1919, meteorologist, experimental scientist, Scottish; British

John Aitken

1839 - 1919
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Alfred Darbyshire

1839 - 1908
1839-1902, inventor of the automatic telephone exchange, American

Almon Brown Strowger

1839 - 1902
1841-1904, explorer, journalist, British; Welsh

Henry Morton Stanley

1841 - 1904

George Frederick Chambers

1841 - 1915

Downer, Frederick

1840 - 1919
1840-1844, railway company, British

North Midland Railway

1840 - 1844
1841-1898, physician; inventor of intubation, American

Joseph O'Dwyer

1841 - 1898
1839-1916, engraver; medallist; sculptor, Swedish

Johan Adolf Lindberg

1839 - 1916
1841-1913, physicist, German

Victor Schumann

1841 - 1913
1839-1911, physician; surgeon; pathologist, French

Paul Georges Dieulafoy

1839 - 1911
1839-1889, artist; caricaturist for Vanity Fair, Italian; British

Carlo Pellegrini

1803 - 1889
1839-1900, engineer; industrialist, Bohemian; Czech

Emil Skoda

1839 - 1900
1840-1905, physicist; optical researcher; optical designer, German

Ernst Karl Abbe

1840 - 1905
1841-1912, scientist; music theorist, British

Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet

1841 - 1912
1839-1916, professor of chemistry, Romanian

Nicolae Teclu

1839 - 1916
1841-1914, inventor of the modern submarine, Irish

John Philip Holland

1841 - 1914
1840-1921, civil engineer, English; British

Charles Douglas Fox

1840 - 1921
1841-1928, physician; anatomist, Polish

Sigismond L Laskowski

1841 - 1928
1839-1912, mechanical engineer; scientific instrument maker, British

Robert William Munro

1839 - 1912