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

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991
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
1876-1999, manufacturer of microscopes, Vienna, Austria

Reichert

1876 - 1999
1887-present, camera manufacturer, Munich

Linhof

1887

Constantinesco, George

1881 - 1965
1886-1924, lens manufacturer, Leicester, England

Taylor, Taylor and Hobson Limited

1886 - 1924
1883-1928, light bulb filament manufacturer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Royal Ediswan

1883 - 1928
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
active c1880-1988, wallpaper manufacturer, London, Reading & Southall (manufactory), England

John Line and Sons Limited

1880 - 1988
1887-1948(?), haulage firm, British

Carter, Paterson and Company Limited

1887 - 1948
1884-1945, manufacturer of pharmaceutical products; manufacturer of dyestuffs, Basle, Switzerland

Society of Chemical Industry in Basel

1884 - 1945
active 1924-1937, Asst Keeper Science Museum, London, British

Laird Clowes, Geoffrey Swinford

1883 - 1937

Wallis, Barnes Neville

1887 - 1979
active 1887 -1920s?, manufacturer of leather goods, picnic baskets and silver, London, ENgland

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935
1881-1955, bacteriologist; discoverer of penicillin, British

Fleming, Sir Alexander

1881 - 1955
1900-1931, bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer, English; British

Humber Limited

1887 - 1931
1877-1958, aircraft designer; manufacturer, England, British

Roe, Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon-

1877 - 1958
c. 1875 -1998, manufacturer of ceramics, Burslem, England

Dunn, Bennett and Company Limited

1878 - 1998
1881-1963, marine engineer, Scottish; British

Wallace, Sir William

1881 - 1963
1885-1888, shipbuilder, Belfast

Queen's Island Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited

1885 - 1888
1877-1963, farmer; engineer, British; English

Hosier, Arthur Julius

1877 - 1963
1882-1970, physicist, German/Polish

Born, Max

1882 - 1970
1885-1953, artist, Russian, USSR

Vladimir Tatlin

1885 - 1953
silversmiths, Sheffield

W S Savage and Company

1876 - 1929
1881-1961, model-maker; amateur maritime archaeologist, British?

Naish, Francis Clement Prideaux

1881 - 1961
1896-1949, artist; illustrator, British

Carter, Reg

1886 - 1949
1879-1971, railway photographer, British

Tidey, H Gordon

1879 - 1971
1875-1938, captain; photographer, British

Alston, R S

1875 - 1938
1886-1965, chemist; historian of science, British

Partington, James Riddick

1886 - 1965
1883-1965, artist; painter; poster artist, British

Turner, C. E.

1883 - 1965
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
inventor, filmmaker

Waller, Fred

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

Goodwin, Henry Buergel

1878 - 1931
engineer; 1887-1971; Denmak

Petersen, Axel

1887 - 1971
1883-1958, GWR general manager, London, Irish

Milne, Sir James

1883 - 1958
1875-1951, automotive engineer, Austrian

Porsche, Ferdinand

1875 - 1951

Gresley, Sir Nigel (1876-1941), engineer

1876 - 1941

Silberrad, Oswald John

1878 - 1960

Groves, Robert M.

1880 - 1920

Ereky, Karoly

1878 - 1952

Jefferson, Geoffrey

1886 - 1961

Young, Edith Mary

1875 - 1945

Marin, Eugene Gaspard

1883 - 1969

Aitken, William Maxwell (first Baron Beaverbrook)

1879 - 1964

Pole, Felix John Clewett

1877 - 1956

Hornbuckle, Thomas

1880 - 1958

Durr, Ludwig

1878 - 1956

Partington, James Riddick

1886 - 1965

Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram

1886 - 1975