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

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991

Muybridge, Florado Helios

1873 - 1944
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969
active 1897-1968, laboratory apparatus and instrument maker, London, England

Baird and Tatlock (London) Limited

1897 - 2012
active 1898-1968, compressor/engineering product manufacture, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, British

Broom and Wade Limited

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

Gramophone Company Limited

1898 - 1931
1892-1974, manufacturer of radios, televisions, batteries, white goods and computers, Philadelphia, America

Philco Corporation

1892 - 1974
1887-?, manufacturer of linen, clothing, merchants, general outfitters, Belfast; London

Robinson and Cleaver Limited

1874
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969

Wright, Elsie

1901 - 1903
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
1890-1932, manufacturer of gas engines, Ashton-under-Lyne, England

National Gas Engine Company

1890 - 1932
1891-1987, physiological instrument maker, London, England, British

C F Palmer (London) Limited

1891 - 1987

Baumann, Karl

1884 - 1971
1894-c.1950s, scientific instrument and radio manufacturers, Croydon, England

Gambrell Brothers Ltd.

1894 - 1959
1886-1977, physiologist, British

Hill, Archibald Vivian

1886 - 1977
active 1887 -1920s?, manufacturer of leather goods, picnic baskets and silver, London, ENgland

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935
1899-1955, poster artist

Howard, Norman

1899 - 1955
1876-1999, manufacturer of microscopes, Vienna, Austria

Reichert

1876 - 1999
1881-1968, manufacturing engineers, Openshaw, Manchester

Crossley Brothers Limited

1881 - 2009

The Daily Mail

1896
1878-1967, motor vehicle and bicycle manufacturer, Coventry, England, British

Rover Company

1878
1888-current (2010), medical & scientific instrument manufacturer/ supplier, London, British

G H Zeal Limited

1888
1903-current (2021), electronics and communications manufacturer, Berlin

Telefunken

1903
b. 1884, active ca. 1910-1936, poster artist, British

Black, Montague Birrell

1884
active 1867-?, surgical instrument maker, Tuttlingen, Germany

Jetter and Scheerer

1867
1865-1935, physicist, French

Féry, Charles

1865 - 1935
1873-1878, photographer, British

Maull and Company

1873 - 1878
1909-1915, film company, United Kingdom

Natural Color Kinematograph Company Limited

1903 - 1915
1867-1942, cinematographer; film producer, active England from about 1915, American

Urban, Charles

1867 - 1942
1892-present (2008), electric company, American

General Electric

1892
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
inventor, filmmaker

Waller, Fred

1886 - 1954
1878-1931, photographer, active Sweden from 1904, German; Swedish

Goodwin, Henry Buergel

1878 - 1931
chemist, scientist, inventor

Eichengrun, Arthur

1867 - 1949
engineer; 1887-1971; Denmak

Petersen, Axel

1887 - 1971
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
1899-1977, cartographer, German

Hoelzel, Fritz

1899 - 1977
1867-1943, aeronautical pioneer; balloonist; meteorologist, British

Alexander, Patrick Young

1867 - 1943
1899-1978, sculptor; poster artist

Bradshaw, Laurence

1899 - 1978
1903-1960, Keeper of the Science Museum Library (1945-60), British

Pledge, Humphrey Thomas

1903 - 1960
1870-1952, science and technology historian; Science Museum curator, British

Dickinson, Henry Winram

1870 - 1952
active 1921-1979, photographer, British

Ashley, Hallam

1900 - 1987
1872-1942, astronomer, American

Curtis, Heber Doust

1872 - 1942
1903-1996, railway employee, British

Judson, Stanley

1903 - 1996
1885-1888, shipbuilder, Belfast

Queen's Island Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited

1885 - 1888