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1885-1930, soap manufacturer, British

Lever Brothers Limited

1885 - 1930
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
1867-1934, physicist; chemist, Polish-born; French

Marie Curie

1867 - 1934
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
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879
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
1883-c.1944, manufacturer, Middlesbrough

Cargo Fleet Iron Co.

1883 - 1944
1880-1995, laboratory equipment manufacturer (chemistry, physics), London, England

A Gallenkamp and Company Limited

1880 - 1995
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
1888-1946, television engineer, entrepreneur, Scottish; British

John Logie Baird

1888 - 1946
1877-1926, manufacturer of explosives, Ardeer, Scotland

Nobel's Explosives Company Limited

1877 - 1926
c. 1875 -1998, manufacturer of ceramics, Burslem, England

Dunn Bennett and Company Limited

1878 - 1998
active 1888-1971, manufacturing chemist, Nottingham

Boots Pure Drug Company Limited

1888 - 1971
Sir

Barnes Neville Wallis

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

Crossley Brothers Limited

1881 - 2009

Hans Berger

1873 - 1941
1876-1999, manufacturer of microscopes, Vienna, Austria

Reichert

1876 - 1999
1886-1926, optical instrument and camera manufacturer, Berlin

C P Goerz

1886 - 1926
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
active 1868-1968, optical instrument maker; clock maker, Manchester, England

Brother, Thomas Armstrong and

1868 - 1968
American; birth control advocate; nurse

Margaret Sanger

1878 - 1966
1880-1958, sexologist; advocate of birth control, British; Scottish

Marie Stopes

1880 - 1958
1879-1941, poster artist, British

Henry George Gawthorn

1879 - 1941
1887-1948(?), haulage firm, British

Carter, Paterson and Company Limited

1887 - 1948

George Constantinesco

1881 - 1965
active 1888-1930s, printer, Harrow; London

David Allen and Sons Limited

1888 - 1939
active 1879-1986, pharmacist and surgical instrument makers, English

Brady and Martin Limited

1886 - 1986
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
Hon.

Charles Stewart Rolls

1877 - 1910
active 1887-1979, laboratory apparatus & instrument maker, Glasgow, Scotland

Baird and Tatlock Limited

1887 - 1979
1867-1943, dye manufacturer, chemist, Scottish

James Morton

1867 - 1943
1888-1981, scientific instrument, optics, camera and cinema projector manufacturer, Leeds

A. Kershaw and Sons Limited

1888
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
Sir

Elly Kadoorie

1867 - 1944
1875-1976, manufacturer, Tunstall, British

Alfred Meakin

1875 - 1976
1883-1908, optical instrument maker, London, England

W Watson and Sons

1882 - 1908
1871-1940, naturalist, photographer and documentary film maker, British

Cherry Kearton

1871 - 1940
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
1883-1928, light bulb filament manufacturer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Royal Ediswan

1883 - 1928