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

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879
active c. 1894-1968, optical instrument maker, London, England

R and J Beck Limited

1867 - 1968
1853-1914, police officer, French

Bertillon, Alphonse

1853 - 1914

Muybridge, Florado Helios

1873 - 1944
1863-1944, chemist; inventor, Belgian; American

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik

1863 - 1944
1869-1986/7, optical instrument maker (microscope & cameras - Leica), Germany

E Leitz

1869 - 1987
active 1853-1921, optical, mathematical, philosophical & electrical inst. maker, London, England

Elliott Brothers

1853 - 1921
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
c.1880 -1992, stationers; scientific equipment manufacturer, Manchester, England

A G Thornton Limited

1880 - 1992
1880-1995, laboratory equipment manufacturer (chemistry, physics), London, England

A Gallenkamp and Company Limited

1880 - 1995
1851-1954, locksmith, London, England

Hobbs, Hart and Company Limited

1851 - 1954
c. 1875 -1998, manufacturer of ceramics, Burslem, England

Dunn, Bennett and Company Limited

1878 - 1998
c.1863 - 1946, surgical instrument maker, London, England

Down Bros and Mayer and Phelps Limited

1863
1857-1969, optical instrument makers (microscope), London, England

James Swift and Son Limited

1857 - 1969
1857-1960s?, manufacturer of laundry machines and appliances, Manchester, England

Thomas Bradford and Company

1850 - 1991

Maunder, Edward Walter

1851 - 1928
1853-1863, manufacturer of sewing machines and surgical needles, American

Singer Manufacturing Company

1853 - 1863
1877-1926, manufacturer of explosives, Ardeer, Scotland

Nobel's Explosives Company Limited

1877 - 1926
active 1867-?, surgical instrument maker, Tuttlingen, Germany

Jetter and Scheerer

1867
1861-1968, manufacturer of ceramics, Hanley, England

G L Ashworth and Brothers Limited

1861 - 1968
American; birth control advocate; nurse

Sanger, Margaret

1878 - 1966
b. 1866, amateur photographer (active in Russia), British

Stewart, Herbert Galloway

1866
1876-1999, manufacturer of microscopes, Vienna, Austria

Reichert

1876 - 1999
active 1871-1959, manufactuer of sewing machines; manufacturer of calculating machines, Braunschweig, Germany

Grimme Natalis and Co

1871 - 1959
1880-1958, sexologist; advocate of birth control, British; Scottish

Stopes, Marie

1880 - 1958

Lilienthal, Otto

1848 - 1896
active 1859 -1948, psychiatric hospital, Sussex, England

Brighton Mental Asylum

1859 - 1948
1850-1971, optics manufacturer, Bromley

Wray Optical Works Ltd.

1850 - 1971
1851-1964, manufacturer of mathmetical equipment, London

W. H. Harling Ltd

1851 - 1964
1856-1960s?, manufacturer of lifting equipment, pumps and engines, Birmingham, England

Tangyes Limited

1856

Turner, Edward Raymond

1873 - 1903
1867-1934, physicist; chemist, Polish-born; French

Curie, Marie

1867 - 1934
1879-1941, poster artist, British

Gawthorn, Henry George

1879 - 1941
1871-1955, civil engineer; inventor; patentee of the vacuum cleaner, English; British

Booth, Hubert Cecil

1871 - 1955
active 1866-1926, camera manufacturer, Blackheath, London, England

W Butcher and Sons

1866 - 1926
1852-1933, folklorist; collector, British

Lovett, Edward

1852 - 1933
1857-about 1948, manufacturer of sewing machines, American

Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machine Company

1857
1863-1933, spirit photographer, British

Hope, William

1863 - 1933
1864 - present, Wales, manufacturer

Powell Duffryn Engineering Company Limited

1864
active 1863-1924, neurologist, founder of Radionics movement, American

Abrams, Albert

1863 - 1924
active c1880-1988, wallpaper manufacturer, London, Reading & Southall (manufactory), England

John Line and Sons Limited

1880 - 1988
1859-1965, manufacturer of soap and tooth powder, Manchester

F C Calvert and Company

1859 - 1965
1861-1956, manufacturer of pencils and pens, New York, United States

American Pencil Company

1861 - 1956
active 1857-1948, manufacturer of precision tools, American

Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company

1857 - 1948
1867-1943, dye manufacturer, chemist, Scottish

Morton, James

1867 - 1943
active 1870s -1950s, herbalist; supplier and manufacturer of materia medica, London, England

Potter and Clarke Limited

1875
1853-1923, physician; surgeon; author, English; British

Treves, Sir Frederick

1853 - 1923
1850-1917, inventor, film maker, chronophotographer, physiologist, French

Demeny, Georges

1850 - 1917
active 1868-1968, optical instrument maker; clock maker, Manchester, England

Thomas Armstrong and Brother

1868 - 1968