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Hiram Stevens Maxim

1840 - 1916
active 1863-1918, optician, optical designer, spectacle manufacturer & collector, English; British

Matthew William Dunscombe

1841 - 1918
1898-1915, magazine, English; British

The Girl's Realm

1811 - 1911
1841-1903, astronomer; astronomical photographer, English; British

Andrew Anslie Common

1841 - 1903
1840-1916, engineer; inventor, American-born, British

Hiram Stevens Maxim

1840 - 1916
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
1840-1894, printmaker, English; British

Le Blond and Co

1840 - 1894

William Henry Fowler

1807 - 1904
1897-1968, engineering and manufacturing: agricultural; marine; civil; and aeronautical, Norwich, Norfolk, England, British

Boulton and Paul Limited

1812 - 1968
1840-1913, artist; caricaturist, Austrian

Friedrich Graetz

1840 - 1913
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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

Downer, Frederick

1840 - 1919

George Frederick Chambers

1841 - 1915
1841-1904, explorer, journalist, British; Welsh

Henry Morton Stanley

1841 - 1904
1840-1844, railway company, British

North Midland Railway

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

Joseph O'Dwyer

1841 - 1898
1841-1913, physicist, German

Victor Schumann

1841 - 1913
1841-1912, scientist; music theorist, British

Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet

1841 - 1912
1841-1914, inventor of the modern submarine, Irish

John Philip Holland

1841 - 1914
1840-1905, physicist; optical researcher; optical designer, German

Ernst Karl Abbe

1840 - 1905
1840-1980, dispensing chemist; manufacturing chemist; druggist, Rotherham, England

Humphrey Davy and Son Limited, Humphrey

1840 - 1980
1840-1921, civil engineer, English; British

Charles Douglas Fox

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

Sigismond L Laskowski

1841 - 1928
c. 1840, d. 1920, music composer; teacher; singer, British? active Italy, Spain, London

Edward Slater

1840 - 1920
1840-1892, physician; naturalist; governor, German

Eduard Schnitzer

1840 - 1892
1841-1910, physician; surgeon, French

Louis Hubert Farabeuf

1841 - 1910
1841-1880, active 1874, cycle manufacturer, inventor of ball bearing, British

Daniel Rudge

1841 - 1880
1841-1916, ophthalmologist; surgeon, German

Arthur von Hippel

1841 - 1916
1841-1922, astronomer; artist, British

William Henry Wesley

1841 - 1922
1840-1910, experimental physicist, German

Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch

1840 - 1910
1841-1910, King of Great Britain and Ireland, English; British

Edward VII

1841 - 1910
Collector of prints and drawings.

Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt

1840 - 1914
1841-1872, 36-gun fifth rate sailing warship, Royal Navy, British

HMS Cambrian

1841 - 1872
1865-1944, zoologist, author, British

Harold Hulme Brindley

1806 - 1944
1840-1891, locomotive superintendent, British; Scottish

Hugh Smellie

1840 - 1891
2nd Lieutenant

Fred Lawton Kay

1811 - 1969
c1840-1882, photographer, United States, Irish; American

Timothy H O'Sullivan

1840 - 1882

Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold

1841 - 1917
1841-1900, physician; historian; university professor, Bohemian; Czech

Eduard Albert

1841 - 1900
1840-1907, civil engineer, British

Benjamin Baker

1840 - 1907