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

Alexander Graham Bell

1847 - 1922
1850s-1972, publisher, London, England

Crosby Lockwood and Company

1850 - 1972
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
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

George Edward Davis

1850 - 1907
1850-1892, doctor; murderer, British; American

Thomas Neill Cream

1850 - 1892
1849-1962, locomotive works, Gorton, Manchester

Gorton Works

1849 - 1962

Alfred Rosling Bennett

1850 - 1928
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
1848-1912, engraver; medallist, Italian

Luigi Giorgi

1848 - 1912
1850-1925, physicist; electrical engineer, British

Oliver Heaviside

1850 - 1925
1850-1885, metallurgist & inventor, British

Sidney Gilchrist Thomas

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

John Milne

1850 - 1913

Theodore James Biggs

1806 - 1906
1849-1945, electrical engineer & university teacher, English, British

John Ambrose Fleming

1849 - 1945

Thomas Dixon Lockwood

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

Stevens and Williams Limited

1847 - 1998
1849-1922, zoologist; professor, German

Oscar Hertwig

1849 - 1922
1847-1985, tool makers, instrument makers; engineers, Manchester, England

Kendall and Gent Limited

1847 - 1985
1850-1915, aviation pioneer; engineer; explorer; astronomer; inventor, English-born; Australian

Lawrence Hargrave

1850 - 1915

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
1849- , physician; neurologist; anatomist; medallist; sculptor, French

Paul Marie Louis Pierre Richer

1849 - 1933
1847-1894, electrical engineer; telegraph engineer, Russian

Paul Jablochkoff

1847 - 1894
1848-1901, physicist, American

Henry Augustus Rowland

1848 - 1901
active 1879, cycle manufacturer; inventor, British

George Singer

1847 - 1909
1849-1933, physician; pediatrician; general clinician; lecturer, British

John Playfair

1849 - 1933
1848-1926, professor of chemistry, Austrian

Franz von Soxhlet

1848 - 1926
1886-1923, Met Office employee, RNVR Lieutenant, RAF Flight Lieutenant, British

Albert Edgar Gendle

1809 - 1923

Charles Ashley Carus-Wilson

1812 - 1942
1878-1924, railway company, United Kingdom

Ballycastle Railway

1812 - 1924
1850-1926, surgeon and physiologist, British

Robert Henry Clarke

1850 - 1926
1847-1918, civil engineer; mechanical engineer; model maker, English; British

Thomas Coates

1847 - 1918
1849-1899, painter; sculptor; engraver; medallist, French

Daniel Jean-Baptiste Dupuis

1849 - 1899
1848-1920, electrical engineer, Scottish; British

Alexander Muirhead

1848 - 1920