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1884-1991, button, badge and medal makers, Birmingham

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991
1879-1941, poster artist, British

Gawthorn, Henry George

1879 - 1941
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969
active 1897-1968, laboratory apparatus and instrument maker, London, England

Baird and Tatlock (London) Limited

1897 - 2012
1881-1952, manufacturer of measuring and testing machines, Leipzig, Germany

Louis Schopper

1881 - 1952
1877-1926, manufacturer of explosives, Ardeer, Scotland

Nobel's Explosives Company Limited

1877 - 1926
1888-1971, medical scientist; inventor, American

Rife, Royal Raymond

1888 - 1971

Wallis, Barnes Neville

1887 - 1979
active 1928-1954, laboratory apparatus; laboratory instrument maker, London, England

Griffin and Tatlock Limited

1889 - 1999
active 1887 -1920s?, manufacturer of leather goods, picnic baskets and silver, London, ENgland

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935
active 1888-1930s, printer, Harrow; London

David Allen and Sons Limited

1888 - 1939
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879
1895-1980s, manufacturer of medicinal lozenges, England

Iron Jelloids Company Limited

1895
1881-1963, marine engineer, Scottish; British

Wallace, Sir William

1881 - 1963
1864-1944, geologist; museum director, British; English

Lyons, Sir Henry George

1864 - 1944
1843-1913, educational reformer; politician, British

Stuart, James

1843 - 1913
1867-1943, aeronautical pioneer; balloonist; meteorologist, British

Alexander, Patrick Young

1867 - 1943
1870-1952, science and technology historian; Science Museum curator, British

Dickinson, Henry Winram

1870 - 1952
1872-1942, astronomer, American

Curtis, Heber Doust

1872 - 1942
1885-1888, shipbuilder, Belfast

Queen's Island Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited

1885 - 1888
1895-1968, vice-chairman and managing director of Newton, Chambers & Co. Ltd.

West, Sir Harold Ernest George

1895 - 1968
1877-1963, farmer; engineer, British; English

Hosier, Arthur Julius

1877 - 1963
1858-1939, journalist; politician, British; English

Norman, Sir Henry

1858 - 1939
1882-1970, physicist, German/Polish

Born, Max

1882 - 1970
1862-1912, mechanical engineer, German?

Zodel, Louis

1862 - 1912
1854-1932, inventor; businessman, American

Eastman, George

1854 - 1932
1885-1953, artist, Russian, USSR

Vladimir Tatlin

1885 - 1953
silversmiths, Sheffield

W S Savage and Company

1876 - 1929
1892-1978, locomotive designer, French

Chapelon, Andre

1892 - 1978
1858-1929, scientist; inventor, Austrian

Auer von Welsbach, Carl

1858 - 1929
1873-1953, artist; painter; landscapist; marine painter, English; British

Hughes, Robert Morson

1873 - 1953
1862-present, pen manufacturer, Birmingham

C. Brandauer & Co

1862
1881-1961, model-maker; amateur maritime archaeologist, British?

Naish, Francis Clement Prideaux

1881 - 1961
1854, vessel; screw sloop

HMS Curlew (1854)

1854 - 1865
1861-1935, wrote letter in 1917 on 'les moteurs a petrole pour sous-marins', French

Rey, Jean Alexandre

1861 - 1935
1866-1962, worked as a chemist in Wales, German-born

Wolf, Hans Karl

1866 - 1962
1896-1982, author , British?

Joyce, Alfred George Edward

1896 - 1982
1851-1930, professor of botany; reporter; editor, British; Scottish

Watt, Sir George

1851 - 1930
1870-1961, active 1917-1920 as Director of airship production and of munitions, British

Given, Ernest Cranstoun

1870 - 1961
1849-1925, mathematician, Prussian; German

Klein, Christian Felix

1849 - 1925
1867-1949, Director of the 1917 Geological Survey of Egypt, British

Hume, William Fraser

1867 - 1949
1873-1948; electrical engineer; inventor; English; British.

Sydney George Brown

1873 - 1948
1872-1941, Director of Desert Surveys, Egypt, c. 1931

Ball, John

1872 - 1941
1891-1950, museum curator, then director of the Science Museum, British

Shaw, Herman

1891 - 1950
1846-1929, engine designer; industrialist, German

Maybach, Wilhelm

1846 - 1929
c.1870 - present, manafacturer, British

Dorman Smith Traffic Products Limited

1870
1896-1949, artist; illustrator, British

Carter, Reg

1886 - 1949
1892-1958, railway employee, British

Dodds, Harold

1892 - 1958
1879-1971, railway photographer, British

Tidey, H Gordon

1879 - 1971
1875-1938, captain; photographer, British

Alston, R S

1875 - 1938