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1851-1926, physician; medical administrator; surgeon; writer, British

Cantlie, Sir James

1851 - 1926
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969
1853-1941, photographer, British; English

Sutcliffe, Frank Meadow

1853 - 1941
active 1851-1899(?), optician, meteorological, mathematical & philosophical instrument maker, London

Pastorelli and Company

1851 - 1899
active 1859 -1948, psychiatric hospital, Sussex, England

Brighton Mental Asylum

1859 - 1948
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879
1845-c1955, optical instrument, lens and camera makers, Germany

Emil Busch AG

1845
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
1878-1931, photographer, active Sweden from 1904, German; Swedish

Goodwin, Henry Buergel

1878 - 1931
dedupe to Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

1847 - 1923
1859-1890, manufacturer of photographic brass mats, Worcester, MA

Dean & Emerson

1859 - 1890
chemist, scientist, inventor

Eichengrun, Arthur

1867 - 1949
1869-1950, photographer, American

Brigman, Anne Wardrope

1869 - 1950
1851-1940, physicist, English; British

Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph

1851 - 1940
1869-1949, scientific instrument and radio manufacturer, British

Pye, William George

1869 - 1949
1875-1951, automotive engineer, Austrian

Porsche, Ferdinand

1875 - 1951
1845-1860, railway company, United Kingdom

Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway

1845 - 1860
1881-1963, marine engineer, Scottish; British

Wallace, Sir William

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

Lyons, Sir Henry George

1864 - 1944
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
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
silversmiths, Sheffield

W S Savage and Company

1876 - 1929
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
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
1846-1929, engine designer; industrialist, German

Maybach, Wilhelm

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

Dorman Smith Traffic Products Limited

1870
1879-1971, railway photographer, British

Tidey, H Gordon

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

Alston, R S

1875 - 1938

Smith, Watson

1845 - 1920

k. k. Universität zu Wien

1872 - 1975
active 1868-1909/14, optical & mathematical instrument maker, Irish; British

Grubb, Sir Howard

1844 - 1931
published 1868-1914, magazine, English; British

Vanity Fair

1868 - 1914
1877-1958, aircraft designer; manufacturer, England, British

Roe, Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon-

1877 - 1958