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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

Manchester Corporation Waterworks

1848 - 1971
1847-1922, teacher of deaf people; inventor of telephone, Scottish; American

Alexander Graham Bell

1847 - 1922
1848-1928, Inventor, American, America

Lewis Howard Latimer

1848 - 1928
1898-1915, magazine, English; British

The Girl's Realm

1811 - 1911
1847-1870, manufacturer of cermaics, Belgium

J B Cappellemans, Willems Smith et Cie

1847 - 1870
1847-1908, electrical engineer; physicist, British

William Edward Ayrton

1847 - 1908
1848-1912, engraver; medallist, Italian

Luigi Giorgi

1848 - 1912

Theodore James Biggs

1806 - 1906

Thomas Dixon Lockwood

1848 - 1927
1847-1998, glassware manufacturer, Stourbridge, West Midlands, England

Stevens and Williams Limited

1847 - 1998
1847-1985, tool makers, instrument makers; engineers, Manchester, England

Kendall and Gent Limited

1847 - 1985

William Henry Fowler

1807 - 1904
1897-1968, engineering and manufacturing: agricultural; marine; civil; and aeronautical, Norwich, Norfolk, England, British

Boulton and Paul Limited

1812 - 1968
1847-1894, electrical engineer; telegraph engineer, Russian

Paul Jablochkoff

1847 - 1894
active 1879, cycle manufacturer; inventor, British

George Singer

1847 - 1909
1848-1901, physicist, American

Henry Augustus Rowland

1848 - 1901
1886-1923, Met Office employee, RNVR Lieutenant, RAF Flight Lieutenant, British

Albert Edgar Gendle

1809 - 1923
1848-1926, professor of chemistry, Austrian

Franz von Soxhlet

1848 - 1926
1847-1918, civil engineer; mechanical engineer; model maker, English; British

Thomas Coates

1847 - 1918

Charles Ashley Carus-Wilson

1812 - 1942
1848-1920, electrical engineer, Scottish; British

Alexander Muirhead

1848 - 1920
1848-1927, physician; ophthalmologist; ophthalmic surgeon, British

Andrew Stanford Morton

1848 - 1927
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Walter Noel Hartley

1847 - 1913
1848-1929, first baronet, brewer and railway manager, England, British

Henry Cosmo Orme Bonsor

1848 - 1929
Mr

Abraham Flatters

1848 - 1929
1848-1903, engineer, English; British

Henry Percy Holt

1848 - 1903
1847-1940, astronomer, British; English

Edmund Neville Nevill

1847 - 1940
active 1840s, barometer maker, London

Pastorelli and Son

1848 - 1849
1847-1936, engineer, British; English

William Dent Priestman

1847 - 1936

Thomas Alva Edison

1847 - 1931
1848-1935, obstetrician, French

Camille Louis Antoine Champetier-de-Ribes

1848 - 1935
1847-1914, physician; surgeon, British

Francis Henry Laking

1847 - 1914
1848-1937, chemist, British

Henry Edward Armstrong

1848 - 1937
1847-1913, astronomer; book collector, British; Scottish; French-born

James Ludovic Lindsay

1847 - 1913
1847-1926, physician; dentist, microscopist, British

John Howard Mummery

1847 - 1926
1848-1933, portrait painter, British

Walter William Ouless

1848 - 1933
1848-1903, scientific instrument maker, British

Albert George Dew-Smith

1848 - 1903
1847-1905, military engineer, French

Charles Renard

1847 - 1905
1848-1919, Rear Admiral - United States Navy, Gulf Stream Geographer, America

John Elliott Pillsbury

1848 - 1919
1847-1912, patentee for pendulum design used in high quality timekeepers, German

Siegmund Riefler

1847 - 1912
1865-1944, zoologist, author, British

Harold Hulme Brindley

1806 - 1944
1848-1924, surgeon, British; Scottish

William Macewen

1848 - 1924
2nd Lieutenant

Fred Lawton Kay

1811 - 1969

Cudworth, William John

1848 - 1909
1847-1933, theosophist and politician in India, British

Annie Besant

1847 - 1933
1848-1896, civil engineer; aviation pioneer, German

Otto Lilienthal

1848 - 1896

Harry Grimshaw

1810 - 1901