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

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991
1904-1973, supplier of wholesale chemicals & drugs, England, British

British Drug Houses Limited

1904 - 1973
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

Elsie Wright

1901 - 1903
1898-1931, recording company; gramophone and radio manufacturer, British

Gramophone Company Limited

1898 - 1931
1889-2006, electrical equipment manufacturer, British

General Electric Company Limited

1889 - 2006
active 1897-1968, laboratory apparatus and instrument maker, London, England

Baird and Tatlock (London) Limited

1897 - 2012
1892-1974, manufacturer of radios, televisions, batteries, white goods and computers, Philadelphia, America

Philco Corporation

1892 - 1974

Frances Griffiths

1907 - 1986
active 1944-1954, laboratory apparatus & instrument maker, London, England

W and J George and Becker Limited

1910 - 1954
1883-c.1944, manufacturer, Middlesbrough

Cargo Fleet Iron Co.

1883 - 1944
1901-1987, electrical & electronic engineering equipment manufacturer, England, British

Ferranti Limited

1901 - 1987
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
active 1901-1980s, microscope & accessory manufacturer, Manchester, England

Flatters and Garnett Limited

1901 - 1967
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
1915-1945, camera manufacturer, London

Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Company Limited

1915 - 1945
active 1928-1954, laboratory apparatus; laboratory instrument maker, London, England

Griffin and Tatlock Limited

1889 - 1999
1890-1932, manufacturer of gas engines, Ashton-under-Lyne, England

National Gas Engine Company

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

John Logie Baird

1888 - 1946
1919-1995, multimedia publisher, educational film makers, Chicago

Society for Visual Education Inc.

1919 - 1995
1889-1957, manufacturer of comptometers, Chicago, United States

Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company

1889 - 1957
active 1898-1968, compressor/engineering product manufacture, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, British

Broom and Wade Limited

1898 - 1968
1917-1958, manufacturer of projectors and cine equipment, Leeds, United Kingdom

Kalee Limited

1917 - 1958
1889-1926, camera and cinema equipment manufacturer, Dresden, Germany

Ernemann Werke

1889 - 1926
1896-1947, scientific instrument and radio manufacturer, Cambridge

W G Pye and Company Limited

1896 - 1947
1915-1960, aircraft manufacturer, Hayes, Middlesex; Stockport, Cheshire; Hamble, Hampshire, England, British

Fairey Aviation Company Limited

1915 - 1960

William Grey Walter

1910 - 1977
1897-1978, toy maker, Harborne, Birmingham, England

Chad Valley Company Limited

1897 - 1978
active 1888-1971, manufacturing chemist, Nottingham

Boots Pure Drug Company Limited

1888 - 1971
Sir

Barnes Neville Wallis

1887 - 1979
active, c. 1930 - current (2009), manufacturer of water purification equipment, United Kingdom

The Permutit Company Limited

1912 - 1993
1881-1968, manufacturing engineers, Openshaw, Manchester

Crossley Brothers Limited

1881 - 2009
active 1900-1960s, manufacturer of electrical measuring equipment, Hendon, England

Everett, Edgcumbe and Company Limited

1905 - 1968
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
1895-1980s, manufacturer of medicinal lozenges, England

Iron Jelloids Company Limited

1895
1910-1936, manufacturer of ball bearings, Luton, England

Skefco Ball Bearing Company

1910 - 1936
model railway maker

J P Richards

1902 - 1999
about 1918-2010, artist, British

Rita Bronowski

1918 - 2010
Colonel

Kenneth Cantlie

1899 - 1986
1884-1987, match manufacturer, Liverpool, Lancashire, England; Bow, London, England, British

Bryant and May Limited

1884 - 1927
1889-c.1960, sign manufacturer, Selly Oak

Patent Enamel Co Ltd

1889 - 1960
1897-1987, electrical instrument maker, Orpington, Kent, England

H W Sullivan Limited

1897 - 1987
active 1908-1997, manufacturer of bras, American

S H Camp and Company

1908 - 1997
1894-1960, poster printer; printer; lithographer, London

The Baynard Press

1894 - 1960
1880-1958, sexologist; advocate of birth control, British; Scottish

Marie Stopes

1880 - 1958
1894-1936, manufacturer of ceramics, Hanley, England

Pearl Pottery Company

1894 - 1936
1907-1992, Button Makers, Birmingham

Buttons Ltd

1907