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1883-c.1944, manufacturer, Middlesbrough

Cargo Fleet Iron Co.

1883 - 1944
1884-1991, button, badge and medal makers, Birmingham

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991

Wright, Elsie

1901 - 1903
1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991
active 1879-1986, pharmacist and surgical instrument makers, English

Brady and Martin Limited

1886 - 1986
1891-1987, physiological instrument maker, London, England, British

C F Palmer (London) Limited

1891 - 1987
1904-1973, supplier of wholesale chemicals & drugs, England, British

British Drug Houses Limited

1904 - 1973
1898-1931, recording company; gramophone and radio manufacturer, British

Gramophone Company Limited

1898 - 1931
1892-1974, manufacturer of radios, televisions, batteries, white goods and computers, Philadelphia, America

Philco Corporation

1892 - 1974
c.1890s-1926, electrical part and telephone manufacturer, Britain

Sterling Telephone and Electric Company Limited

1899 - 1926
1896-1947, scientific instrument and radio manufacturer, Cambridge

W G Pye and Company Limited

1896 - 1947
active 1901-1980s, microscope & accessory manufacturer, Manchester, England

Flatters and Garnett Limited

1901 - 1967
1903-, manufacturer of scientific instruments, Acton, London; Watford, England

S G Brown Limited

1903
1906-1971, car manufacturer; aero engine manufacturer, Derby; Bristol, England, British

Rolls-Royce Limited

1904 - 1973
inventor, filmmaker

Waller, Fred

1886 - 1954
engineer; 1887-1971; Denmak

Petersen, Axel

1887 - 1971
British engineer and inventor of the fuel cell as used on the Apollo mission Service Modules. The same technology was also used for power and water on NASA's Space Shuttle.

Bacon, Francis Thomas

1904 - 1992
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
1899-1981, pioneering animator and film director, Berlin, Germany

Reiniger, Lotte

1899 - 1981
1885-1953, artist, Russian, USSR

Vladimir Tatlin

1885 - 1953
1892-1978, locomotive designer, French

Chapelon, Andre

1892 - 1978
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
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
1900-1931, bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer, English; British

Humber Limited

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

Morvi Railway

1890 - 1948
1909-1915, film company, United Kingdom

Natural Color Kinematograph Company Limited

1903 - 1915
1892-present (2008), electric company, American

General Electric

1892

Pledge, Humphrey Thomas

1903 - 1960

Worcester, George Raleigh Gray

1890 - 1969

Sempill, William Francis Forbes

1893 - 1965

Sarkisov, Semion Alexandrovich

1895 - 1971

West, Harold Ernest Georges

1895 - 1968

Dunham, Jr, Theodore

1897 - 1984

Gooding, Hubert Thorn

1903 - 1988

Jefferson, Geoffrey

1886 - 1961