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

Emil Busch AG

1845
active 1868-1968, optical instrument maker; clock maker, Manchester, England

Thomas Armstrong and Brother

1868 - 1968
1863-1944, chemist; inventor, Belgian; American

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik

1863 - 1944
active c. 1894-1968, optical instrument maker, London, England

R and J Beck Limited

1867 - 1968
1858-1921, British navy steam/sail ship, used 1872-1876 oceanagraphic expedition, British

HMS Challenger

1858 - 1921
1854/5-1922, trapeze artist, aeronaut, acrobat, American

Dare, Leona

1855 - 1922
1858-1903, manufacturer of agricultural engines; manufacturer of steam engines, Pershore, England

Edward Humphries and Company Limited

1858 - 1903
active 1859 -1948, psychiatric hospital, Sussex, England

Brighton Mental Asylum

1859 - 1948
1823-1960, lithographer; poster printer; printer; publisher, London

Vincent Brooks, Day and Son Limited

1862 - 1960
1867-1964, camera and photographic equipment manufacturer, Germany

Agfa

1867 - 1964
1857-about 1948, manufacturer of sewing machines, American

Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machine Company

1857
published 1868-1914, magazine, English; British

Vanity Fair

1868 - 1914
1870-1955, wildlife photographer and artist, Ireland

Dugmore, Arthur Radclyffe

1870 - 1955
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
1865-1935, physicist, French

Féry, Charles

1865 - 1935
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
1867-1942, cinematographer; film producer, active England from about 1915, American

Urban, Charles

1867 - 1942
1855-1944, physicist; inventor, English; British

Boys, Sir Charles Vernon

1855 - 1944

Cudworth, William John

1848 - 1909
1860-1922, railway company, United Kingdom

East Coast Joint Stock Railway

1860 - 1922
1862-1982, manufacturer, Chicago

Pullman Car Company

1862 - 1982
1856-1999, manufacturer of phosphorous; manufacturer of chemicals, Oldbury, England

Albright and Wilson Limited

1856 - 1999
1846-1920, jeweller, Russian

Fabergé, Peter Carl

1846 - 1920
1871-1913, trade union, British

Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants

1871 - 1913
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
1858-1939, journalist; politician, British; English

Norman, Sir Henry

1858 - 1939
1862-1912, mechanical engineer, German?

Zodel, Louis

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

Eastman, George

1854 - 1932
1858-1929, scientist; inventor, Austrian

Auer von Welsbach, Carl

1858 - 1929
1862-present, pen manufacturer, Birmingham

C. Brandauer & Co

1862
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
1846-1929, engine designer; industrialist, German

Maybach, Wilhelm

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

Dorman Smith Traffic Products Limited

1870

Smith, Watson

1845 - 1920
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