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

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991
1904-1973, supplier of wholesale chemicals & drugs, England, British

British Drug Houses Limited

1904 - 1973
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969
1891-1987, physiological instrument maker, London, England, British

C F Palmer (London) Limited

1891 - 1987
1888-1971, medical scientist; inventor, American

Rife, Royal Raymond

1888 - 1971
active 1887 -1920s?, manufacturer of leather goods, picnic baskets and silver, London, ENgland

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935
active 1881-1945, pen maker, French

Blanzy-Poure and Company

1881

Wright, Elsie

1901 - 1903

Walter, William Grey

1910 - 1977

Muybridge, Florado Helios

1873 - 1944
active 1868-1968, optical instrument maker; clock maker, Manchester, England

Thomas Armstrong and Brother

1868 - 1968
1907-1996, artist; illustrator, English; British

Cuneo, Terence Tenison

1907 - 1996
1902-1960, active 1950s, poster artist, Irish born, active Scotland

Macfarlane, Alasdair

1902 - 1960
1863-1944, chemist; inventor, Belgian; American

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik

1863 - 1944
active c1880-1988, wallpaper manufacturer, London, Reading & Southall (manufactory), England

John Line and Sons Limited

1880 - 1988
1887-1948(?), haulage firm, British

Carter, Paterson and Company Limited

1887 - 1948
active c. 1894-1968, optical instrument maker, London, England

R and J Beck Limited

1867 - 1968
1898-1931, recording company; gramophone and radio manufacturer, British

Gramophone Company Limited

1898 - 1931
1945-1964, camera and optical instrument maker, East Germany

VEB Carl Zeiss Jena

1905 - 1964
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
active 1898-1968, compressor/engineering product manufacture, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, British

Broom and Wade Limited

1898 - 1968
c.1880 -1992, stationers; scientific equipment manufacturer, Manchester, England

A G Thornton Limited

1880 - 1992

Griffiths, Frances

1907 - 1986
1872-1981, clock and electrical equipment manufacturer, Leicester, England

Gents' of Leicester

1872 - 1981
active 1928-1954, laboratory apparatus; laboratory instrument maker, London, England

Griffin and Tatlock Limited

1889 - 1999
1883-c.1944, manufacturer, Middlesbrough

Cargo Fleet Iron Co.

1883 - 1944
1892-1974, manufacturer of radios, televisions, batteries, white goods and computers, Philadelphia, America

Philco Corporation

1892 - 1974
1897-1989, anaesthetist; physician, New Zealander

Macintosh, Sir Robert Reynolds

1897 - 1989
1889-1957, manufacturer of comptometers, Chicago, United States

Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company

1889 - 1957
1887-ca. 1942, designer; carver, Andorran

Fornells i Marco, Eduard

1887 - 1942
active 1901-1980s, microscope & accessory manufacturer, Manchester, England

Flatters and Garnett Limited

1901 - 1967
1881-1968, manufacturing engineers, Openshaw, Manchester

Crossley Brothers Limited

1881 - 2009

British Vacuum Cleaner Company Limited

1901
1886 -, scientific instruments supplier, Chicago, United States

C H Stoelting Company

1886
c.1863 - 1946, surgical instrument maker, London, England

Down Bros and Mayer and Phelps Limited

1863
1895-1980s, manufacturer of medicinal lozenges, England

Iron Jelloids Company Limited

1895
1895-c.1950, gas and laboratory equipment manufacturer, Warrington, Cheshire, England

Fletcher Russell and Company Limited

1895
1907-1992, Button Makers, Birmingham

Buttons Ltd

1907
1946; railway employee, railway manager, railway passenger manager, railway company director

Warburton, Ivor William

1908
1903-current (2021), electronics and communications manufacturer, Berlin

Telefunken

1903
1852 - current (2009), manufacturer of ceramics, Chodziez, Poland

Chodziez

1897

Pledge, Humphrey Thomas

1903 - 1960

Bankart, Zoe Theodora

1909 - 1988

Worcester, George Raleigh Gray

1890 - 1969

Gresley, Sir Nigel (1876-1941), engineer

1876 - 1941

Brewer, Griffith

1867 - 1948

Silberrad, Oswald John

1878 - 1960

Barrow Ship Building Company Limited

1871 - 1897