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

Downs Surgical Limited

1879

Muybridge, Florado Helios

1873 - 1944
1883-c.1944, manufacturer, Middlesbrough

Cargo Fleet Iron Co.

1883 - 1944
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
c.1880 -1992, stationers; scientific equipment manufacturer, Manchester, England

A G Thornton Limited

1880 - 1992
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
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
1886-1926, optical instrument and camera manufacturer, Berlin

C P Goerz

1886 - 1926
American; birth control advocate; nurse

Sanger, Margaret

1878 - 1966
1876-1999, manufacturer of microscopes, Vienna, Austria

Reichert

1876 - 1999
active 1871-1959, manufactuer of sewing machines; manufacturer of calculating machines, Braunschweig, Germany

Grimme Natalis and Co

1871 - 1959
1880-1958, sexologist; advocate of birth control, British; Scottish

Stopes, Marie

1880 - 1958
1884-1987, match manufacturer, Liverpool, Lancashire, England; Bow, London, England, British

Bryant and May Limited

1884 - 1927
1881-1952, manufacturer of measuring and testing machines, Leipzig, Germany

Louis Schopper

1881 - 1952

Turner, Edward Raymond

1873 - 1903
1879-1941, poster artist, British

Gawthorn, Henry George

1879 - 1941
1871-1955, civil engineer; inventor; patentee of the vacuum cleaner, English; British

Booth, Hubert Cecil

1871 - 1955

Constantinesco, George

1881 - 1965
1881-1955, bacteriologist; discoverer of penicillin, British

Fleming, Sir Alexander

1881 - 1955
active 1879-1986, pharmacist and surgical instrument makers, English

Brady and Martin Limited

1886 - 1986
1884-, manufacturer of cash registers & business machines, Dayton, Ohio, United States, American

NCR Corporation

1884
active c1880-1988, wallpaper manufacturer, London, Reading & Southall (manufactory), England

John Line and Sons Limited

1880 - 1988
active 1870s -1950s, herbalist; supplier and manufacturer of materia medica, London, England

Potter and Clarke Limited

1875

Round, Henry Joseph

1881 - 1966
1874-1966, steelmakers; munitions makers, English; British

John Baker and Company Limited

1874 - 1966
1878-1967, motor vehicle and bicycle manufacturer, Coventry, England, British

Rover Company

1878
active 1870s-1924, scientific instrument maker, London, England

F Darton and Company

1879 - 1924
1880-1941, pharmaceutical manufacturer, London, England, British

Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited

1880 - 1941
1885-, manufacturer of clocks, United States

Westclox Division of General Time Corporation

1885
active 1871-1921, retail co-operative society, England

The Army and Navy Co-operative Society

1871 - 1921
active from 1880 -? , manufacturer of toilet paper, Englsih

The British Patent Perforated Paper Company Limited

1880
1887-?, manufacturer of linen, clothing, merchants, general outfitters, Belfast; London

Robinson and Cleaver Limited

1874
active 1871-1959, manufactuer of sewing machines; manufacturer of calculating machines, Braunschweig, Germany

Brunsviga Maschinenwerke AG

1871 - 1959
1871-1940, naturalist, photographer and documentary film maker, British

Kearton, Cherry

1871 - 1940
1883-1908, optical instrument maker, London, England

W Watson and Sons

1882 - 1908
1874-current (2010) travel logistics agency, night sleeper train company, Belgium

Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits

1874
1886-current (2015), electronic/ mechanical engineering equipment designer/ manufacturer, Berlin

Robert Bosch GmbH

1886
active 1881-1945, pen maker, French

Blanzy-Poure and Company

1881

Rolls, Charles Stewart

1877 - 1910
1875-1976, manufacturer, Tunstall, British

Alfred Meakin

1875 - 1976
1876-1960s, druggist; manufacturer of pharmaceutical & chemical preparations; distiller, Southwark

Wright, Layman and Umney Limited

1876 - 1969
1884-1998, agricultural machinery maker, English; British

Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Limited

1884 - 1998

Branger, Maurice-Louis

1874 - 1950
1879-, manufacturer of instruments and control equipment, Frankfurt, Germany

Hartmann and Braun

1879
1878-1929, electrical engineer; cryptologist, German

Scherbius, Arthur

1878 - 1929