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

Emil Busch AG

1845
1857-1960s?, manufacturer of laundry machines and appliances, Manchester, England

Thomas Bradford and Company

1850 - 1991

Otto Lilienthal

1848 - 1896
1847-1931, inventor; scientist, American

Thomas Alva Edison

1847 - 1931
1847-1966, manufacturer of ceramics, Stoke on Trent, England

W T Copeland and Sons Limited

1847 - 1966
1850-1971, optics manufacturer, Bromley

Wray Optical Works Ltd.

1850 - 1971
1850-1917, inventor, film maker, chronophotographer, physiologist, French

Georges Demeny

1850 - 1917

Manchester Corporation Waterworks

1848 - 1971
1845-c. 1955, lens manufacturer; scientific instrument maker, Paris, France

Lerebours et Secretan

1845 - 1955
1847-1922, teacher of deaf people; inventor of telephone, Scottish; American

Alexander Graham Bell

1847 - 1922
1845-1867, manufacturer of gutta-percha products, London, England

Gutta Percha Company

1845 - 1867
1850s-1972, publisher, London, England

Crosby Lockwood and Company

1850 - 1972
1845-1978, engineers and machinery manufacturers, Salford and Manchester, England

Mather and Platt Limited

1845 - 1978
1847-1962, confectioners, Birmingham

Cadbury Brothers Limited

1847
1848-1928, Inventor, American, America

Lewis Howard Latimer

1848 - 1928
1849-2002, joint stock company, British

Railway Passengers Assurance Company

1849 - 2002
1846-, iron founder, West Bromwich, England

Joseph and Jesse Siddons

1846
1816-1923, US Navy Officer, American

Lt.-Cdr. Charles Dwight Sigsbee

1845 - 1923
active 1849-1879, small arms manufacturer, London

J Beattie

1849 - 1879
1850-1991, pressure gauge manufacturer, German

Schaeffer and Budenberg Ltd.

1850 - 1991
1898-1915, magazine, English; British

The Girl's Realm

1811 - 1911
1850-1888, electrical engineer; inventor; patentee, French

Lucien Gaulard

1850 - 1888
about 1845-1907, photographic and magic lantern retailer, Cheapside, London

Benetfink

1845 - 1907

George Edward Davis

1850 - 1907
1846-1922, railway company, London

Great Northern Railway

1846 - 1922
1846-1914, engineer; inventor of a type of air compressor, British

James Atkinson

1846 - 1914
1850-1892, doctor; murderer, British; American

Thomas Neill Cream

1850 - 1892
active 1846-current (2005), printers, Merseyside, England

McCorquodale and Company Limited

1846
1845-1918, meteorologist; physician, German

Richard Assmann

1845 - 1918

John Price

1846 - 1913
1849-1962, locomotive works, Gorton, Manchester

Gorton Works

1849 - 1962

Alfred Rosling Bennett

1850 - 1928

Robert Banks

1846 - 1927
1846 -1925, instrument maker, German

Florenz Sartorius

1846 - 1925
1847-1870, manufacturer of cermaics, Belgium

J B Cappellemans, Willems Smith et Cie

1847 - 1870
1849-1935, competition cyclist, British

James Moore

1849 - 1935
1850-1945, electrical engineer; inventor of a type of bicycle, British

Killingworth William Hedges

1850 - 1945
1847-1908, electrical engineer; physicist, British

William Edward Ayrton

1847 - 1908
marine engineering and shipbuilding company of Dundee, Scotland. 1846-1908

Brothers, Gourley

1846 - 1908
1845-1922, railway company, Stoke-on-Trent

North Staffordshire Railway

1845 - 1922
1845-1903, medallist, Austrian

Anton Scharff

1845 - 1903
1850-1885, metallurgist & inventor, British

Sidney Gilchrist Thomas

1850 - 1885
1850-1913, geologist and seismologist, English; British

John Milne

1850 - 1913
1845-1899, gynaecological surgeon; British; Scottish

Robert Lawson Tait

1845 - 1899
1846-1867, railway company, British

South Staffordshire Railway

1846 - 1867
1848-1912, engraver; medallist, Italian

Luigi Giorgi

1848 - 1912
1846-1855, telegraph company, British

Electric Telegraph Company

1846 - 1855
1845-1933, ophthalmologist, British

Joseph Priestley Smith

1845 - 1933

Theodore James Biggs

1806 - 1906
1850-1925, physicist; electrical engineer, British

Oliver Heaviside

1850 - 1925