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

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969

Norman, Henry (first baronet)

1858 - 1939

Muybridge, Florado Helios

1873 - 1944

Penn-Gaskell, Winifred Ethel

1874 - 1949
1867-1943, dye manufacturer, chemist, Scottish

Morton, James

1867 - 1943
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
active c. 1894-1968, optical instrument maker, London, England

R and J Beck Limited

1867 - 1968
active 1870s-1924, scientific instrument maker, London, England

F Darton and Company

1879 - 1924
active 1859-1995, hospital, Brighton

St Francis Hospital

1859 - 1995
1875-1945, inventor active in cinematography, Polish

Proszynski, Kazimierz

1875 - 1945

Kadoorie, Elly (KBE)

1867 - 1944
1869-1986/7, optical instrument maker (microscope & cameras - Leica), Germany

E Leitz

1869 - 1987
1875-1976, manufacturer, Tunstall, British

Alfred Meakin

1875 - 1976
1883-1954, artist; painter; assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police,British

Tripp, Sir Herbert Alker

1883 - 1954
1880-1995, laboratory equipment manufacturer (chemistry, physics), London, England

A Gallenkamp and Company Limited

1880 - 1995
1876-1999, manufacturer of microscopes, Vienna, Austria

Reichert

1876 - 1999
c.1863 - 1946, surgical instrument maker, London, England

Down Bros and Mayer and Phelps Limited

1863
1878-1967, motor vehicle and bicycle manufacturer, Coventry, England, British

Rover Company

1878
1875-1951, automotive engineer, Austrian

Porsche, Ferdinand

1875 - 1951
1865-1935, physicist, French

Féry, Charles

1865 - 1935
1873-1878, photographer, British

Maull and Company

1873 - 1878
1862-1931, engineer, British

Darling, Alfred

1862 - 1931
1867-1942, cinematographer; film producer, active England from about 1915, American

Urban, Charles

1867 - 1942
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
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
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
1881-1963, marine engineer, Scottish; British

Wallace, Sir William

1881 - 1963
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
1882-1970, physicist, German/Polish

Born, Max

1882 - 1970
1862-1912, mechanical engineer, German?

Zodel, Louis

1862 - 1912
silversmiths, Sheffield

W S Savage and Company

1876 - 1929
1873-1953, artist; painter; landscapist; marine painter, English; British

Hughes, Robert Morson

1873 - 1953
1858-1929, scientist; inventor, Austrian

Auer von Welsbach, Carl

1858 - 1929
1862-present, pen manufacturer, Birmingham

C. Brandauer & Co

1862
1881-1961, model-maker; amateur maritime archaeologist, British?

Naish, Francis Clement Prideaux

1881 - 1961
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
1870-1961, active 1917-1920 as Director of airship production and of munitions, British

Given, Ernest Cranstoun

1870 - 1961