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

Griffin and Tatlock Limited

1889 - 1999
1887-present, camera manufacturer, Munich

Linhof

1887

Constantinesco, George

1881 - 1965
1889-1926, camera and cinema equipment manufacturer, Dresden, Germany

Ernemann Werke

1889 - 1926
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 1888-1971, manufacturing chemist, Nottingham

Boots Pure Drug Company Limited

1888 - 1971
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
1891-1987, physiological instrument maker, London, England, British

C F Palmer (London) Limited

1891 - 1987
1884-1945, manufacturer of pharmaceutical products; manufacturer of dyestuffs, Basle, Switzerland

Society of Chemical Industry in Basel

1884 - 1945
1888-1971, medical scientist; inventor, American

Rife, Royal Raymond

1888 - 1971
active 1924-1937, Asst Keeper Science Museum, London, British

Laird Clowes, Geoffrey Swinford

1883 - 1937

Wallis, Barnes Neville

1887 - 1979
1888-1960, artist; illustrator; pharmacist, British

Wright, Horace

1888 - 1960
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
1892-1974, manufacturer of radios, televisions, batteries, white goods and computers, Philadelphia, America

Philco Corporation

1892 - 1974
1889-1957, manufacturer of comptometers, Chicago, United States

Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company

1889 - 1957
1888-1981, scientific instrument, optics, camera and cinema projector manufacturer, Leeds

A. Kershaw and Sons Limited

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

Weston Electrical Instrument Company

1888
1900-1931, bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer, English; British

Humber Limited

1887 - 1931
1890-1948, railway company, Indian; India

Morvi Railway

1890 - 1948
1892-present (2008), electric company, American

General Electric

1892
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
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
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
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

Worcester, George Raleigh Gray

1890 - 1969

Silberrad, Oswald John

1878 - 1960

Sempill, William Francis Forbes

1893 - 1965

Groves, Robert M.

1880 - 1920

Ereky, Karoly

1878 - 1952

Jefferson, Geoffrey

1886 - 1961