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

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991
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
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
1880-1995, laboratory equipment manufacturer (chemistry, physics), London, England

A Gallenkamp and Company Limited

1880 - 1995
c.1880 -1992, stationers; scientific equipment manufacturer, Manchester, England

A G Thornton Limited

1880 - 1992
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
1888-1946, television engineer, entrepreneur, Scottish; British

John Logie Baird

1888 - 1946
active 1888-1971, manufacturing chemist, Nottingham

Boots Pure Drug Company Limited

1888 - 1971
Sir

Barnes Neville Wallis

1887 - 1979
1881-1968, manufacturing engineers, Openshaw, Manchester

Crossley Brothers Limited

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

C P Goerz

1886 - 1926
1881-1952, manufacturer of measuring and testing machines, Leipzig, Germany

Louis Schopper

1881 - 1952
American; birth control advocate; nurse

Margaret Sanger

1878 - 1966
1884-1987, match manufacturer, Liverpool, Lancashire, England; Bow, London, England, British

Bryant and May Limited

1884 - 1927
1880-1958, sexologist; advocate of birth control, British; Scottish

Marie Stopes

1880 - 1958
1887-1948(?), haulage firm, British

Carter, Paterson and Company Limited

1887 - 1948
1879-1941, poster artist, British

Henry George Gawthorn

1879 - 1941
active 1888-1930s, printer, Harrow; London

David Allen and Sons Limited

1888 - 1939

George Constantinesco

1881 - 1965
active 1879-1986, pharmacist and surgical instrument makers, English

Brady and Martin Limited

1886 - 1986
Captain

Henry Joseph Round

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

John Line and Sons Limited

1880 - 1988
1881-1955, bacteriologist; discoverer of penicillin, British

Alexander Fleming

1881 - 1955
active 1887-1979, laboratory apparatus & instrument maker, Glasgow, Scotland

Baird and Tatlock Limited

1887 - 1979
1888-1981, scientific instrument, optics, camera and cinema projector manufacturer, Leeds

A. Kershaw and Sons Limited

1888
1883-1908, optical instrument maker, London, England

W Watson and Sons

1882 - 1908
1885-1930, soap manufacturer, British

Lever Brothers Limited

1885 - 1930
1883-1928, light bulb filament manufacturer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Royal Ediswan

1883 - 1928
1887-1948, an automotive engineer; designer, British

George Carwardine

1887 - 1948
1880-1941, pharmaceutical manufacturer, London, England, British

Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited

1880 - 1941
1880-1976, manufacturer of machinery, Bad Homburg, Germany

Maschinenfabrik Michael KAMPF KG

1880 - 1976
1880-1991, manufacturer of ceramics, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England

W H Grindley and Company Limited

1880 - 1991
1884-1998, agricultural machinery maker, English; British

Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Limited

1884 - 1998
1878-1929, electrical engineer; cryptologist, German

Arthur Scherbius

1878 - 1929
active 1888-1920s, electrical measuring instruments (light meters etc), New Jersey, United States

Weston Electrical Instrument Company

1888

Elsie Holloway

1882 - 1971
1883-1925, manufacturer of electrical equipment, England

Western Electric Company Limited

1883 - 1925
1878-1983, publisher of card games and stationery, London, England

Castell Brothers Limited

1878 - 1983
1898-1915, magazine, English; British

The Girl's Realm

1811 - 1911
1884-1945, manufacturer of pharmaceutical products; manufacturer of dyestuffs, Basle, Switzerland

Society of Chemical Industry in Basel

1884 - 1945

Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company Limited

1887 - 1947
1888-1959, graphic designer; poster artist, British; English

Tom Purvis

1888 - 1959
1884 - c. 1962, manufacturer of ceramics, Longton, England

British Anchor Pottery

1884 - 1962
active 1881-1990, lithographer; printer, York, England

Ben Johnson and Company Limited

1881 - 1990
1883-1954, artist; painter; assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police,British

Herbert Alker Tripp

1883 - 1954
1882-1960, plastic surgeon, lecturer, Dunedin, New Zealander

Harold Delf Gillies

1882 - 1960
1878-1971, artist; marine painter; poster artist; etcher, English; British

Norman Wilkinson

1878 - 1971