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active 1928-1956, manufacturer of automatic and dispensing machines, London, England

British Automatic Company Limited

1928 - 1956
active 1901-1980s, microscope & accessory manufacturer, Manchester, England

Flatters and Garnett Limited

1901 - 1967
1884-1987, match manufacturer, Liverpool, Lancashire, England; Bow, London, England, British

Bryant and May Limited

1884 - 1927

British Vacuum Cleaner Company Limited

1901
1922-1978?, manufacturer of wireless (radio receiver) components and valves, Blackheath, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Burndept Limited

1922
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
1878-1967, motor vehicle and bicycle manufacturer, Coventry, England, British

Rover Company

1878
1914-1956, writing pen and ink manufacturer, London, England, British

Mabie, Todd and Company Limited

1914
1946; railway employee, railway manager, railway passenger manager, railway company director

Warburton, Ivor William

1908
1852 - current (2009), manufacturer of ceramics, Chodziez, Poland

Chodziez

1897
1908-1996, hospital, Alton, Hampshire, England, British

Lord Mayor Treloar Orthopaedic Hospital

1908
1917-1997, molecular biologist, British; English

Kendrew, Sir John Cowdery

1917 - 1997
1914-2002, chemist; molecular biologist, Austrian-born; British

Perutz, Max Ferdinand

1914 - 2002
British engineer and inventor of the fuel cell as used on the Apollo mission Service Modules. The same technology was also used for power and water on NASA's Space Shuttle.

Bacon, Francis Thomas

1904 - 1992
1875-1951, automotive engineer, Austrian

Porsche, Ferdinand

1875 - 1951
1913-1936, aeroplane propeller design and manufacture, Weybridge, England, British

Lang Propeller Company Limited

1913 - 1936
1873-1878, photographer, British

Maull and Company

1873 - 1878
1907-1957, manufacturer of motorcycles, Kingswood, Bristol, England

Douglas (Kingswood) Limited

1907 - 1957
1931-1979, recording & consumer electrical/electronic goods manufacturer, United Kingdom

Electric and Musical Industries Limited

1931 - 1979
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
active 1942-1987, research scientist

Elmes, P C

1921 - 2003
1871-1913, trade union, British

Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants

1871 - 1913

Davies, E. Arnold

1905 - 1902
1906-1971, car manufacturer; aero engine manufacturer, Derby; Bristol, England, British

Rolls-Royce Limited

1904 - 1973
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
1899-1977, cartographer, German

Hoelzel, Fritz

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

Alexander, Patrick Young

1867 - 1943
1904-1965, ornithologist, photographer, documentary filmmaker; writer, Scottish

Rankin, Niall

1904 - 1965
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
1913-2012, physicist; radio astronomer, British; English

Lovell, Sir Bernard

1913 - 2012
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
1895-1968, vice-chairman and managing director of Newton, Chambers & Co. Ltd.

West, Sir Harold Ernest George

1895 - 1968
1914-1983, collector

Berry, Geoffrey C

1914 - 1983
1877-1963, farmer; engineer, British; English

Hosier, Arthur Julius

1877 - 1963
1899-1981, pioneering animator and film director, Berlin, Germany

Reiniger, Lotte

1899 - 1981
1919-2012, metallurgist and physicist, British

Cottrell, Alan

1919 - 2012