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1884-1991, button, badge and medal makers, Birmingham

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969
1904-1973, supplier of wholesale chemicals & drugs, England, British

British Drug Houses Limited

1904 - 1973
active 1887 -1920s?, manufacturer of leather goods, picnic baskets and silver, London, ENgland

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935
1888-1971, medical scientist; inventor, American

Royal Raymond Rife

1888 - 1971

Elsie Wright

1901 - 1903
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879
1867-1934, physicist; chemist, Polish-born; French

Marie Curie

1867 - 1934
1898-1931, recording company; gramophone and radio manufacturer, British

Gramophone Company Limited

1898 - 1931
1889-2006, electrical equipment manufacturer, British

General Electric Company Limited

1889 - 2006
active 1897-1968, laboratory apparatus and instrument maker, London, England

Baird and Tatlock (London) Limited

1897 - 2012
active c. 1894-1968, optical instrument maker, London, England

R and J Beck Limited

1867 - 1968
Mr

Florado Helios Muybridge

1873 - 1944
1892-1974, manufacturer of radios, televisions, batteries, white goods and computers, Philadelphia, America

Philco Corporation

1892 - 1974

Frances Griffiths

1907 - 1986
1863-1944, chemist; inventor, Belgian; American

Leo Hendrik Baekeland

1863 - 1944
active 1944-1954, laboratory apparatus & instrument maker, London, England

W and J George and Becker Limited

1910 - 1954
1869-1986/7, optical instrument maker (microscope & cameras - Leica), Germany

E Leitz

1869 - 1987
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
1853-1914, police officer, French

Alphonse Bertillon

1853 - 1914
1883-c.1944, manufacturer, Middlesbrough

Cargo Fleet Iron Co.

1883 - 1944
1901-1987, electrical & electronic engineering equipment manufacturer, England, British

Ferranti Limited

1901 - 1987
1880-1995, laboratory equipment manufacturer (chemistry, physics), London, England

A Gallenkamp and Company Limited

1880 - 1995
c.1880 -1992, stationers; scientific equipment manufacturer, Manchester, England

A G Thornton Limited

1880 - 1992
active 1853-1921, optical, mathematical, philosophical & electrical inst. maker, London, England

Elliott Brothers

1853 - 1921
active 1901-1980s, microscope & accessory manufacturer, Manchester, England

Flatters and Garnett Limited

1901 - 1967
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
active 1928-1954, laboratory apparatus; laboratory instrument maker, London, England

Griffin and Tatlock Limited

1889 - 1999
1890-1932, manufacturer of gas engines, Ashton-under-Lyne, England

National Gas Engine Company

1890 - 1932
1888-1946, television engineer, entrepreneur, Scottish; British

John Logie Baird

1888 - 1946
1889-1957, manufacturer of comptometers, Chicago, United States

Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company

1889 - 1957
active 1898-1968, compressor/engineering product manufacture, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, British

Broom and Wade Limited

1898 - 1968
1889-1926, camera and cinema equipment manufacturer, Dresden, Germany

Ernemann Werke

1889 - 1926
1896-1947, scientific instrument and radio manufacturer, Cambridge

W G Pye and Company Limited

1896 - 1947
1857-1969, optical instrument makers (microscope), London, England

James Swift and Son Limited

1857 - 1969
c. 1875 -1998, manufacturer of ceramics, Burslem, England

Dunn Bennett and Company Limited

1878 - 1998
1877-1926, manufacturer of explosives, Ardeer, Scotland

Nobel's Explosives Company Limited

1877 - 1926
1861-1968, manufacturer of ceramics, Hanley, England

G L Ashworth and Brothers Limited

1861 - 1968

William Grey Walter

1910 - 1977
1897-1978, toy maker, Harborne, Birmingham, England

Chad Valley Company Limited

1897 - 1978
active 1888-1971, manufacturing chemist, Nottingham

Boots Pure Drug Company Limited

1888 - 1971
1853-1863, manufacturer of sewing machines and surgical needles, American

Singer Manufacturing Company

1853 - 1863
Sir

Barnes Neville Wallis

1887 - 1979
1881-1968, manufacturing engineers, Openshaw, Manchester

Crossley Brothers Limited

1881 - 2009
active 1859 -1948, psychiatric hospital, Sussex, England

Brighton Mental Asylum

1859 - 1948
active 1900-1960s, manufacturer of electrical measuring equipment, Hendon, England

Everett, Edgcumbe and Company Limited

1905 - 1968
1886-1926, optical instrument and camera manufacturer, Berlin

C P Goerz

1886 - 1926
1876-1999, manufacturer of microscopes, Vienna, Austria

Reichert

1876 - 1999
1881-1952, manufacturer of measuring and testing machines, Leipzig, Germany

Louis Schopper

1881 - 1952
1895-1980s, manufacturer of medicinal lozenges, England

Iron Jelloids Company Limited

1895