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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
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
1889-2006, electrical equipment manufacturer, British

General Electric Company Limited

1889 - 2006
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
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
active 1928-1954, laboratory apparatus; laboratory instrument maker, London, England

Griffin and Tatlock Limited

1889 - 1999
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
1890-1932, manufacturer of gas engines, Ashton-under-Lyne, England

National Gas Engine Company

1890 - 1932
1889-1957, manufacturer of comptometers, Chicago, United States

Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company

1889 - 1957
1888-1946, television engineer, entrepreneur, Scottish; British

John Logie Baird

1888 - 1946
1889-1926, camera and cinema equipment manufacturer, Dresden, Germany

Ernemann Werke

1889 - 1926
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
Sir

Barnes Neville Wallis

1887 - 1979
active 1888-1971, manufacturing chemist, Nottingham

Boots Pure Drug Company Limited

1888 - 1971
1881-1968, manufacturing engineers, Openshaw, Manchester

Crossley Brothers Limited

1881 - 2009
1886-1926, optical instrument and camera manufacturer, Berlin

C P Goerz

1886 - 1926
1876-1999, manufacturer of microscopes, Vienna, Austria

Reichert

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

Louis Schopper

1881 - 1952
1889-c.1960, sign manufacturer, Selly Oak

Patent Enamel Co Ltd

1889 - 1960
1884-1987, match manufacturer, Liverpool, Lancashire, England; Bow, London, England, British

Bryant and May Limited

1884 - 1927
American; birth control advocate; nurse

Margaret Sanger

1878 - 1966

George Constantinesco

1881 - 1965
1879-1941, poster artist, British

Henry George Gawthorn

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

Carter, Paterson and Company Limited

1887 - 1948
1880-1958, sexologist; advocate of birth control, British; Scottish

Marie Stopes

1880 - 1958
active 1879-1986, pharmacist and surgical instrument makers, English

Brady and Martin Limited

1886 - 1986
active 1888-1930s, printer, Harrow; London

David Allen and Sons Limited

1888 - 1939
Captain

Henry Joseph Round

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

John Line and Sons Limited

1880 - 1988
1890-1973, child psychiatrist and psychotherapist, British

Margaret Lowenfeld

1890 - 1973
1881-1955, bacteriologist; discoverer of penicillin, British

Alexander Fleming

1881 - 1955
1888-1981, scientific instrument, optics, camera and cinema projector manufacturer, Leeds

A. Kershaw and Sons Limited

1888
active 1889-1969, manufacturer of engines, cranes and excavators, Hull, England

Priestman Brothers Limited

1889 - 1969
1889-1957, artist, painter; illustrator, British

Helen McKie

1889 - 1957
Hon.

Charles Stewart Rolls

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

Baird and Tatlock Limited

1887 - 1979
1883-1908, optical instrument maker, London, England

W Watson and Sons

1882 - 1908
1890-1939, artist; marine artist; painter; poster artist, British; English

Kenneth D Shoesmith

1890 - 1939
1875-1976, manufacturer, Tunstall, British

Alfred Meakin

1875 - 1976
1883-1928, light bulb filament manufacturer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Royal Ediswan

1883 - 1928
1876-1960s, druggist; manufacturer of pharmaceutical & chemical preparations; distiller, Southwark

Wright, Layman and Umney Limited

1876 - 1969
1887-1948, an automotive engineer; designer, British

George Carwardine

1887 - 1948
1880-1976, manufacturer of machinery, Bad Homburg, Germany

Maschinenfabrik Michael KAMPF KG

1880 - 1976