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

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935
1888-1971, medical scientist; inventor, American

Rife, Royal Raymond

1888 - 1971
1889-2006, electrical equipment manufacturer, British

General Electric Company Limited

1889 - 2006
1892-1974, manufacturer of radios, televisions, batteries, white goods and computers, Philadelphia, America

Philco Corporation

1892 - 1974
1895-1980s, manufacturer of medicinal lozenges, England

Iron Jelloids Company Limited

1895
1883-c.1944, manufacturer, Middlesbrough

Cargo Fleet Iron Co.

1883 - 1944
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
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
1890-1932, manufacturer of gas engines, Ashton-under-Lyne, England

National Gas Engine Company

1890 - 1932
1888-1946, television engineer, entrepreneur, Scottish; British

Baird, John Logie

1888 - 1946
active 1928-1954, laboratory apparatus; laboratory instrument maker, London, England

Griffin and Tatlock Limited

1889 - 1999
1889-1926, camera and cinema equipment manufacturer, Dresden, Germany

Ernemann Werke

1889 - 1926
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
1896-1947, scientific instrument and radio manufacturer, Cambridge

W G Pye and Company Limited

1896 - 1947
1889-1957, manufacturer of comptometers, Chicago, United States

Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company

1889 - 1957
active 1888-1971, manufacturing chemist, Nottingham

Boots Pure Drug Company Limited

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

Crossley Brothers Limited

1881 - 2009
1888-1981, scientific instrument, optics, camera and cinema projector manufacturer, Leeds

A. Kershaw and Sons Limited

1888
1895-c.1950, gas and laboratory equipment manufacturer, Warrington, Cheshire, England

Fletcher Russell and Company Limited

1895
active 1888-1920s, electrical measuring instruments (light meters etc), New Jersey, United States

Weston Electrical Instrument Company

1888
1886-1926, optical instrument and camera manufacturer, Berlin

C P Goerz

1886 - 1926
American; birth control advocate; nurse

Sanger, Margaret

1878 - 1966

Wallis, Barnes Neville

1887 - 1979
1880-1958, sexologist; advocate of birth control, British; Scottish

Stopes, Marie

1880 - 1958
1884-1987, match manufacturer, Liverpool, Lancashire, England; Bow, London, England, British

Bryant and May Limited

1884 - 1927
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
active 1888-1930s, printer, Harrow; London

David Allen and Sons Limited

1888 - 1939
1894-1936, manufacturer of ceramics, Hanley, England

Pearl Pottery Company

1894 - 1936
1879-1941, poster artist, British

Gawthorn, Henry George

1879 - 1941
1896-present, transport service, Glasgow

Glasgow Underground

1896
1887-1948(?), haulage firm, British

Carter, Paterson and Company Limited

1887 - 1948

Constantinesco, George

1881 - 1965
1881-1955, bacteriologist; discoverer of penicillin, British

Fleming, Sir Alexander

1881 - 1955
active 1879-1986, pharmacist and surgical instrument makers, English

Brady and Martin Limited

1886 - 1986
active 1889-1969, manufacturer of engines, cranes and excavators, Hull, England

Priestman Brothers Limited

1889 - 1969
1894-1960, poster printer; printer; lithographer, London

The Baynard Press

1894 - 1960
active 1887-1979, laboratory apparatus & instrument maker, Glasgow, Scotland

Baird and Tatlock Limited

1887 - 1979
1884-, manufacturer of cash registers & business machines, Dayton, Ohio, United States, American

NCR Corporation

1884
active c1880-1988, wallpaper manufacturer, London, Reading & Southall (manufactory), England

John Line and Sons Limited

1880 - 1988
1892-present (2008), electric company, American

General Electric

1892
1889-1957, artist, painter; illustrator, British

McKie, Helen

1889 - 1957
1890-1973, child psychiatrist and psychotherapist, British

Lowenfeld, Margaret

1890 - 1973
1894-c.1950s, scientific instrument and radio manufacturers, Croydon, England

Gambrell Brothers Ltd.

1894 - 1959

Round, Henry Joseph

1881 - 1966
1896-1985, poster artist; marine and landscape artist, British

Sherwin, Frank

1896 - 1985

Burden, Rosa Gladys

1891 - 1940