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Wright, Elsie

1901 - 1903
1884-1991, button, badge and medal makers, Birmingham

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991
professional engineer, pianist, broadcasting star, writer

Wayne, Arthur

1905 - 1971
1904-1973, supplier of wholesale chemicals & drugs, England, British

British Drug Houses Limited

1904 - 1973
1879-1941, poster artist, British

Gawthorn, Henry George

1879 - 1941
active 1897-1968, laboratory apparatus and instrument maker, London, England

Baird and Tatlock (London) Limited

1897 - 2012
1901-1951, optical, lens, camera and cinematographic equipment manufacturer, Birmingham

Aldis Brothers

1901 - 1951
1881-1952, manufacturer of measuring and testing machines, Leipzig, Germany

Louis Schopper

1881 - 1952
1877-1926, manufacturer of explosives, Ardeer, Scotland

Nobel's Explosives Company Limited

1877 - 1926
1888-1971, medical scientist; inventor, American

Rife, Royal Raymond

1888 - 1971

Wallis, Barnes Neville

1887 - 1979
active 1928-1954, laboratory apparatus; laboratory instrument maker, London, England

Griffin and Tatlock Limited

1889 - 1999
active 1887 -1920s?, manufacturer of leather goods, picnic baskets and silver, London, ENgland

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935
active 1888-1930s, printer, Harrow; London

David Allen and Sons Limited

1888 - 1939
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879
1895-1980s, manufacturer of medicinal lozenges, England

Iron Jelloids Company Limited

1895
1903-, manufacturer of scientific instruments, Acton, London; Watford, England

S G Brown Limited

1903
1903-current (2021), electronics and communications manufacturer, Berlin

Telefunken

1903
1881-1963, marine engineer, Scottish; British

Wallace, Sir William

1881 - 1963
1899-1977, cartographer, German

Hoelzel, Fritz

1899 - 1977
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
active 1921-1979, photographer, British

Ashley, Hallam

1900 - 1987
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
1877-1963, farmer; engineer, British; English

Hosier, Arthur Julius

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

Reiniger, Lotte

1899 - 1981
1882-1970, physicist, German/Polish

Born, Max

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

Vladimir Tatlin

1885 - 1953
1892-1978, locomotive designer, French

Chapelon, Andre

1892 - 1978
1881-1961, model-maker; amateur maritime archaeologist, British?

Naish, Francis Clement Prideaux

1881 - 1961
1899-1986, museum curator, British

Codrington, Kenneth de Burgh

1899 - 1986
1896-1982, author , British?

Joyce, Alfred George Edward

1896 - 1982
1904-1992, museum curator, British; English

Calvert, Henry Reginald

1904 - 1992
1903-1967, manufacturers of iron and steel tubes, England

Stewarts and Lloyds Limited

1903 - 1967
1891-1950, museum curator, then director of the Science Museum, British

Shaw, Herman

1891 - 1950
1896-1949, artist; illustrator, British

Carter, Reg

1886 - 1949
1892-1958, railway employee, British

Dodds, Harold

1892 - 1958
1879-1971, railway photographer, British

Tidey, H Gordon

1879 - 1971
1886-1965, chemist; historian of science, British

Partington, James Riddick

1886 - 1965

Dall, Horace

1901 - 1984
1883-1965, artist; painter; poster artist, British

Turner, C. E.

1883 - 1965

Moss, John F.

1905 - 1906

Ripper, William

1905 - 1905

Mather, Loris Emerson

1886 - 1976

Pledge, Humphrey Thomas

1903 - 1960

Worcester, George Raleigh Gray

1890 - 1969

Silberrad, Oswald John

1878 - 1960