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1853-1917, inventor; camera manufacturer; manufacturer of optical devices; camera retailer, Belgian

van Neck, Louis

1853 - 1917
1850-1892, doctor; murderer, British; American

Cream, Thomas Neill

1850 - 1892
1850-1917, inventor, film maker, chronophotographer, physiologist, French

Demeny, Georges

1850 - 1917
1846-1926, ophthalmologist, Swiss

Landolt, Edmund

1846 - 1926
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
1854-1920, US army physician and surgeon, American

Gorgas, William Crawford

1854 - 1920
1850-1971, optics manufacturer, Bromley

Wray Optical Works Ltd.

1850 - 1971
1855-1944, physicist; inventor, English; British

Boys, Sir Charles Vernon

1855 - 1944

Cudworth, William John

1848 - 1909
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
dedupe to Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

1847 - 1923
1854-1932, inventor; businessman, American

Eastman, George

1854 - 1932
1854, vessel; screw sloop

HMS Curlew (1854)

1854 - 1865
1851-1930, professor of botany; reporter; editor, British; Scottish

Watt, Sir George

1851 - 1930
1849-1925, mathematician, Prussian; German

Klein, Christian Felix

1849 - 1925
1846-1929, engine designer; industrialist, German

Maybach, Wilhelm

1846 - 1929

Shallcross Stone, Flora

1851 - 1875

Ayrton, Hertha

1854 - 1923

Chapman Jones, Henry

1854 - 1932

Hopkinson, John (FRS)

1849 - 1898

Plummer, John James

1806 - 1907

Boys, Charles Vernon

1855 - 1944

Davis, George Edward

1850 - 1907

Carus-Wilson, Charles Ashley

1812 - 1942

Kingsbury, John Edward

1855 - 1948

Ramsay, William

1852 - 1916

Maunder, Edward Walter

1851 - 1928

Baracchi, Pietro Paolo Giovanni Ernesto

1851 - 1926

Lucas, Francis Robert

1849 - 1931

Pearson, Weetman Dickinson (first Viscount Cowdray)

1856 - 1927

Muir, Matthew Moncrieff Pattison

1848 - 1931

Banks, Robert

1846 - 1927

Burrow, John Charles

1852 - 1914

Serviss, Garrett Putnam

1851 - 1929

Lodge, Oliver Joseph

1851 - 1940

Gimingham, Charles Henry

1853 - 1890

Bates Ferguson, William

1853 - 1937

Thomson, Joseph John (OM; FRS)

1856 - 1940

Klein, Christian Felix

1849 - 1925

Fleming, John Ambrose

1849 - 1849

Dickson, James Douglas Hamilton

1849 - 1931

Hodbarrow Mining Company

1855 - 1968

McKechnie, James

1856 - 1931
1848-1863, railway company, Scotland, United Kingdom

Dundee, Perth & Aberdeen Railway Junction

1848 - 1863
1852-1926, engine fitter; LNWR engine driver, Westbury, Stafford, Staffordshire, England, British

Stainton, George

1852 - 1926
1851-1916, professor of chemistry, German

Hempel, Walther

1851 - 1916
1848-1926, professor of chemistry, Austrian

Soxhlet, Franz von

1848 - 1926
1854-1897, engineer; aeronaut, Swedish

Andree, Salomon August

1854 - 1897