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Muybridge, Florado Helios

1873 - 1944
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969
1863-1944, chemist; inventor, Belgian; American

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik

1863 - 1944
1887-?, manufacturer of linen, clothing, merchants, general outfitters, Belfast; London

Robinson and Cleaver Limited

1874
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
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
1876-1999, manufacturer of microscopes, Vienna, Austria

Reichert

1876 - 1999
1878-1967, motor vehicle and bicycle manufacturer, Coventry, England, British

Rover Company

1878
1857-about 1948, manufacturer of sewing machines, American

Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machine Company

1857
active 1867-?, surgical instrument maker, Tuttlingen, Germany

Jetter and Scheerer

1867
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
1873-1878, photographer, British

Maull and Company

1873 - 1878
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
c. 1875 -1998, manufacturer of ceramics, Burslem, England

Dunn, Bennett and Company Limited

1878 - 1998
1856-1999, manufacturer of phosphorous; manufacturer of chemicals, Oldbury, England

Albright and Wilson Limited

1856 - 1999
1871-1913, trade union, British

Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants

1871 - 1913
1878-1931, photographer, active Sweden from 1904, German; Swedish

Goodwin, Henry Buergel

1878 - 1931
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
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
1872-1942, astronomer, American

Curtis, Heber Doust

1872 - 1942
1877-1963, farmer; engineer, British; English

Hosier, Arthur Julius

1877 - 1963
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
silversmiths, Sheffield

W S Savage and Company

1876 - 1929
1858-1929, scientist; inventor, Austrian

Auer von Welsbach, Carl

1858 - 1929
1873-1953, artist; painter; landscapist; marine painter, English; British

Hughes, Robert Morson

1873 - 1953
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