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

Marie Curie

1867 - 1934
active c. 1894-1968, optical instrument maker, London, England

R and J Beck Limited

1867 - 1968
Mr

Florado Helios Muybridge

1873 - 1944
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
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
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
1881-1968, manufacturing engineers, Openshaw, Manchester

Crossley Brothers Limited

1881 - 2009
1876-1999, manufacturer of microscopes, Vienna, Austria

Reichert

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

Louis Schopper

1881 - 1952
active 1871-1959, manufactuer of sewing machines; manufacturer of calculating machines, Braunschweig, Germany

Grimme Natalis and Co

1871 - 1959
American; birth control advocate; nurse

Margaret Sanger

1878 - 1966
active 1868-1968, optical instrument maker; clock maker, Manchester, England

Brother, Thomas Armstrong and

1868 - 1968
1880-1958, sexologist; advocate of birth control, British; Scottish

Marie Stopes

1880 - 1958
1879-1941, poster artist, British

Henry George Gawthorn

1879 - 1941

George Constantinesco

1881 - 1965
active 1866-1926, camera manufacturer, Blackheath, London, England

W Butcher and Sons

1866 - 1926
Captain

Henry Joseph Round

1881 - 1966
active c1880-1988, wallpaper manufacturer, London, Reading & Southall (manufactory), England

John Line and Sons Limited

1880 - 1988
Mr

Edward Raymond Turner

1873 - 1903
1881-1955, bacteriologist; discoverer of penicillin, British

Alexander Fleming

1881 - 1955
1871-1955, civil engineer; inventor; patentee of the vacuum cleaner, English; British

Hubert Cecil Booth

1871 - 1955
Hon.

Charles Stewart Rolls

1877 - 1910
1867-1943, dye manufacturer, chemist, Scottish

James Morton

1867 - 1943
1874-1966, steelmakers; munitions makers, English; British

John Baker and Company Limited

1874 - 1966
active 1870s-1924, scientific instrument maker, London, England

F Darton and Company

1879 - 1924
active 1868-1982, adhesive products manufacturer, London

Samuel Jones and Company Limited

1868 - 1982
1871-1940, naturalist, photographer and documentary film maker, British

Cherry Kearton

1871 - 1940
1875-1976, manufacturer, Tunstall, British

Alfred Meakin

1875 - 1976
Sir

Elly Kadoorie

1867 - 1944
1883-1908, optical instrument maker, London, England

W Watson and Sons

1882 - 1908
active 1867-?, surgical instrument maker, Tuttlingen, Germany

Jetter and Scheerer

1867
1872-1981, clock and electrical equipment manufacturer, Leicester, England

Gents' of Leicester

1872 - 1981
1876-1960s, druggist; manufacturer of pharmaceutical & chemical preparations; distiller, Southwark

Wright, Layman and Umney Limited

1876 - 1969

Maurice-Louis Branger

1874 - 1950
active 1871-1921, retail co-operative society, England

The Army and Navy Co-operative Society

1871 - 1921
1880-1941, pharmaceutical manufacturer, London, England, British

Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited

1880 - 1941
1880-1976, manufacturer of machinery, Bad Homburg, Germany

Maschinenfabrik Michael KAMPF KG

1880 - 1976
active 1871-1959, manufactuer of sewing machines; manufacturer of calculating machines, Braunschweig, Germany

Brunsviga Maschinenwerke AG

1871 - 1959
1880-1991, manufacturer of ceramics, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England

W H Grindley and Company Limited

1880 - 1991
1878-1929, electrical engineer; cryptologist, German

Arthur Scherbius

1878 - 1929
Baron Rutherford of Nelson

Ernest Rutherford

1871 - 1937

Elsie Holloway

1882 - 1971

Charles Jarrott

1877 - 1944
b. 1866, amateur photographer (active in Russia), British

Herbert Galloway Stewart

1866

Donald Macadie

1871 - 1956