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

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969
1845-c1955, optical instrument, lens and camera makers, Germany

Emil Busch AG

1845
1904-1973, supplier of wholesale chemicals & drugs, England, British

British Drug Houses Limited

1904 - 1973
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879
1898-1931, recording company; gramophone and radio manufacturer, British

Gramophone Company Limited

1898 - 1931

Wright, Elsie

1901 - 1903
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
active 1898-1968, compressor/engineering product manufacture, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, British

Broom and Wade Limited

1898 - 1968
1890-1932, manufacturer of gas engines, Ashton-under-Lyne, England

National Gas Engine Company

1890 - 1932
1892-1974, manufacturer of radios, televisions, batteries, white goods and computers, Philadelphia, America

Philco Corporation

1892 - 1974
active 1900-1960s, manufacturer of electrical measuring equipment, Hendon, England

Everett, Edgcumbe and Company Limited

1905 - 1968
active 1887 -1920s?, manufacturer of leather goods, picnic baskets and silver, London, ENgland

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935
1887-?, manufacturer of linen, clothing, merchants, general outfitters, Belfast; London

Robinson and Cleaver Limited

1874
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
1891-1987, physiological instrument maker, London, England, British

C F Palmer (London) Limited

1891 - 1987

Baumann, Karl

1884 - 1971
1915-1945, camera manufacturer, London

Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Company Limited

1915 - 1945

Muybridge, Florado Helios

1873 - 1944
source; model railway maker

Richards, J P

1902 - 1999
1909-1975, communications research, England

Post Office Engineering Research Station

1909 - 1975
1850s-1972, publisher, London, England

Crosby Lockwood and Company

1850 - 1972
active 1897-1968, laboratory apparatus and instrument maker, London, England

Baird and Tatlock (London) Limited

1897 - 2012
active 1871-1959, manufactuer of sewing machines; manufacturer of calculating machines, Braunschweig, Germany

Grimme Natalis and Co

1871 - 1959
1899-1955, poster artist

Howard, Norman

1899 - 1955
1876-1999, manufacturer of microscopes, Vienna, Austria

Reichert

1876 - 1999
1881-1968, manufacturing engineers, Openshaw, Manchester

Crossley Brothers Limited

1881 - 2009

Griffiths, Frances

1907 - 1986
1854/5-1922, trapeze artist, aeronaut, acrobat, American

Dare, Leona

1855 - 1922
active 1908-1997, manufacturer of bras, American

S H Camp and Company

1908 - 1997
1878-1967, motor vehicle and bicycle manufacturer, Coventry, England, British

Rover Company

1878
active 1921-1947, publisher of psychological assessments, American

The Psychological Corporation

1921
1857-about 1948, manufacturer of sewing machines, American

Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machine Company

1857
1888-current (2010), medical & scientific instrument manufacturer/ supplier, London, British

G H Zeal Limited

1888
1864-, manufacturer of electrical machinery, instruments, cables, wire and rubber goods, London

India Rubber, Gutta-Percha and Telegraph Works Company Limited

1864
1888-1981, scientific instrument, optics, camera and cinema projector manufacturer, Leeds

A. Kershaw and Sons Limited

1888
b. 1884, active ca. 1910-1936, poster artist, British

Black, Montague Birrell

1884
active 1867-?, surgical instrument maker, Tuttlingen, Germany

Jetter and Scheerer

1867
1852-1959, manufacturer of agricultural chemicals (poisons and sheep dip), Berkhamsted, England

Cooper, McDougall and Robertson Limited

1852
1923-current (2010), manufacturer, United States

Moviola

1923
about 1923-active, railway company, Zambia

Mulobezi Railway

1923
1849-1907 artist; caricaturist for Vanity Fair, French

Chartran, Theobald

1849 - 1907
1847-1922, teacher of deaf people; inventor of telephone, Scottish; American

Bell, Alexander Graham

1847 - 1922
1913-1936, aeroplane propeller design and manufacture, Weybridge, England, British

Lang Propeller Company Limited

1913 - 1936
1865-1935, physicist, French

Féry, Charles

1865 - 1935
1873-1878, photographer, British

Maull and Company

1873 - 1878
1907-1957, manufacturer of motorcycles, Kingswood, Bristol, England

Douglas (Kingswood) Limited

1907 - 1957
1854-1920, US army physician and surgeon, American

Gorgas, William Crawford

1854 - 1920
1862-1931, engineer, British

Darling, Alfred

1862 - 1931
1850-1971, optics manufacturer, Bromley

Wray Optical Works Ltd.

1850 - 1971