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1850s-1972, publisher, London, England

Crosby Lockwood and Company

1850 - 1972
1854/5-1922, trapeze artist, aeronaut, acrobat, American

Dare, Leona

1855 - 1922
1852-1959, manufacturer of agricultural chemicals (poisons and sheep dip), Berkhamsted, England

Cooper, McDougall and Robertson Limited

1852
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
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
1854-1923, electrical engineer; suffragist, British

Ayrton, Hertha

1854 - 1923
1853-1864, raliway company, British

Llanidloes & Newtown Railway

1853 - 1864
1850-1924, railway company, County Cork, Ireland

Cork, Blackrock & Passage Railway

1850 - 1924
1854-1933, naval architect, British

Biles, Sir John Harvard

1854 - 1933
1851-1926, physician; medical administrator; surgeon; writer, British

Cantlie, Sir James

1851 - 1926
1851-1937, electrical engineer, British

Volk, Magnus

1851 - 1937
1853-1863, manufacturer of sewing machines and surgical needles, American

Singer Manufacturing Company

1853 - 1863
1851-1966, pharmaceutical chemist; medicinal pastille manufacturer, British

Warrick Brothers Limited

1851 - 1966
1851-1918, palaeontologist; educator, American

Williston, Samuel Wendell

1851 - 1918
1853-1943, medallist, French

Dubois, Henri Alfred Auguste

1853 - 1943
Detroit-based portrait photographer, active late 19th-early 20th century

Arthur, James

1855 - 1912
Inventor of Linotype machine, 1854-1899, German

Mergenthaler, Ottmar

1854 - 1899
1851-1934, mathematician; physicist, German-born; British

Schuster, Sir Arthur

1851 - 1934
1852-1941, medallist, French

Bottee, Louis Alexandre

1852 - 1941
1850-c. 1944, railway engineer, active in the Far East, British

Hanson, Charles Rastrick

1850 - 1944
1851-1922, artist; 'Spy' caricaturist for Vanity Fair magazine from 1873-1911, British

Ward, Sir Leslie

1851 - 1922
1852-1916, teacher, physicist; photographer, British

Worthington, Arthur Mason

1852 - 1916
1853-1927, pharmaceutical scientist; chemist, American

Power, Frederick Belding

1853 - 1927
1850s- 1976, pharmaceutical chemist; optician, Leeds, England

Reynolds and Branson Limited

1852 - 1976
1852-1922, soldier & designer, English; British

Verner, William Willoughby Cole

1852 - 1922
1854-1935, astronomer, British

Bower, John C

1854 - 1935
1852-1932, mechanical engineer, Irish born

Brennan, Louis

1852 - 1932
1853-1941, photographer, British; English

Sutcliffe, Frank Meadow

1853 - 1941
active 1853-1958, silversmiths, Sheffield

Atkin Brothers

1853 - 1958
1851-1916, physicist; university professor, British

Thompson, Silvanus Phillips

1851 - 1916
1855-1941, laryngologist, French

Moure, Emile Jean Gabriel

1855 - 1941
1852-1944, artist; painter; poster artist, British; English

Clausen, Sir George

1852 - 1944
1854-c.1875, locomotive builders, Birkenhead

Brassey, Jackson, Betts & Co.

1854 - 1875
1855-1931, anaesthetist; physician, British

Buxton, Dudley Wilmot

1855 - 1931
1854-1921, inventor; professor of physics

Bazzi, Eugenio

1854 - 1921
1853-1942, Egyptologist, British

Petrie, Sir William Matthew Flinders

1853 - 1942
1855-1930, dentist, American

Angle, Edward Hartley

1855 - 1930
1853-1877, railway company, British; Britain

Norwich & Spalding Railway

1853 - 1877
1851-1940, physicist; biophysicist, French

d'Arsonval, Jacques-Arsène

1851 - 1940
1853-1923, librarian; bibliographer, British

Jenkinson, Francis John Henry

1853 - 1923
1852-1931, aeronaut; balloonist, aerial photographer, Swiss

Spelterini, Eduard

1852 - 1931
1855-1935, industrial chemist, British; English

Cross, Charles Frederick

1855 - 1935
1854-1860, railway company, British

Border Counties Railway

1854 - 1860
1851-1926, professor of medicine at Lyons, French

Teissier, Louis Joseph

1851 - 1926
1850-1992, railroad company, Southern United States

Louisville & Nashville Railroad

1850 - 1992
1853-1915, chemist, German

Witt, Otto Nikolaus

1853 - 1915