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

Philco Corporation

1892 - 1974
1890-1932, manufacturer of gas engines, Ashton-under-Lyne, England

National Gas Engine Company

1890 - 1932
1891-1987, physiological instrument maker, London, England, British

C F Palmer (London) Limited

1891 - 1987
1894-c.1950s, scientific instrument and radio manufacturers, Croydon, England

Gambrell Brothers Ltd.

1894 - 1959
1886-1977, physiologist, British

Hill, Archibald Vivian

1886 - 1977
active 1887 -1920s?, manufacturer of leather goods, picnic baskets and silver, London, ENgland

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935
1888-current (2010), medical & scientific instrument manufacturer/ supplier, London, British

G H Zeal Limited

1888
1892-present (2008), electric company, American

General Electric

1892
inventor, filmmaker

Waller, Fred

1886 - 1954
engineer; 1887-1971; Denmak

Petersen, Axel

1887 - 1971
1892-1978, locomotive designer, French

Chapelon, Andre

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

Humber Limited

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

Morvi Railway

1890 - 1948

Worcester, George Raleigh Gray

1890 - 1969

Sempill, William Francis Forbes

1893 - 1965

Jefferson, Geoffrey

1886 - 1961

Mayo, Robert Hobart

1890 - 1957

Burney, Charles Dennistoun

1888 - 1968

Plenty & Son Limited

1890 - 1977

Gandolfi, Thomas

1890 - 1965

Alderslade, Esther

1888 - 1973

Caunter, Frederick Lyde

1892 - 1903

Parke, Wilfred

1889 - 1912

Glover, Charles William

1891 - 1976

Appleton, Edward Victor

1892 - 1965

Partington, James Riddick

1886 - 1965

Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram

1886 - 1975

Robinson, Bernard A

1888 - 1979

Grasemann, Cuthbert

1890 - 1961

Adrian, Edgar Douglas

1889 - 1977

Chadwick, James

1891 - 1974
1892-1917; draughtsman, craftsman and soldier

Gott, Samuel

1892 - 1917
1894-1989, Matsushita companies and Panasonic brand name founder, Osaka, Japan, Japanese

Matsushita, Konosuke

1894 - 1989
1892-1965, musician; broadcaster, Britain

Harrison, Beatrice

1892 - 1965
1893-1950, mathematical tabulator, computer scientist, New Zealand; British

Comrie, Dr. Leslie John

1893 - 1950
1887-1942, painter; artist; porcelain painter; poster artist, British

Tittensor, Harry

1887 - 1942
1889-1926, camera and cinema equipment manufacturer, Dresden, Germany

Ernemann Werke

1889 - 1926
1886-1923, Met Office employee, RNVR Lieutenant, RAF Flight Lieutenant, British

Gendle, Albert Edgar

1809 - 1923
1886-1924, lens manufacturer, Leicester, England

Taylor, Taylor and Hobson Limited

1886 - 1924
1894-1960, poster printer; printer; lithographer, London

The Baynard Press

1894 - 1960
1887-1960 (though name Raleigh still used), motor bike and cycle manufacturer, Nottingham, England

Raleigh Cycle Company Limited

1887 - 1960
1889-1982, electrical engineer; inventor, Russian; American

Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma

1889 - 1982
1890-1965, photographer, British

Jarché, James

1890 - 1965
1888-1969, Chief Engineer fof London & North Eastern Railway, England, Scottish

Train, Sir John Cumberland Landale

1888 - 1969
1889-1976, physicist; meteorologist, British

Dobson, Gordon Miller Bourne

1889 - 1976
1887-1912, battleship, British

HMS Trafalgar (1887)

1887 - 1912