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Wright, Elsie

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

Gramophone Company Limited

1898 - 1931
1894-c.1950s, scientific instrument and radio manufacturers, Croydon, England

Gambrell Brothers Ltd.

1894 - 1959
active 1928-1954, laboratory apparatus; laboratory instrument maker, London, England

Griffin and Tatlock Limited

1889 - 1999
active 1901-1980s, microscope & accessory manufacturer, Manchester, England

Flatters and Garnett Limited

1901 - 1967
1887-present, camera manufacturer, Munich

Linhof

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

Ernemann Werke

1889 - 1926
active 1897-1968, laboratory apparatus and instrument maker, London, England

Baird and Tatlock (London) Limited

1897 - 2012
active 1888-1971, manufacturing chemist, Nottingham

Boots Pure Drug Company Limited

1888 - 1971
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
1900-1907, manufacturer of electrical measuring equipment, Glasgow, Scotland

Kelvin and White

1900 - 1907
1900-1992, poster artist, British

Mayes, Reginald

1900 - 1992
1888-1971, medical scientist; inventor, American

Rife, Royal Raymond

1888 - 1971

Kadoorie, Lawrence (CBE)

1899 - 1993

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
1901-1979, inventor; photographer, British

Spencer, Douglas Arthur

1901 - 1979
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

British Vacuum Cleaner Company Limited

1901
1888-1981, scientific instrument, optics, camera and cinema projector manufacturer, Leeds

A. Kershaw and Sons Limited

1888
1903-, manufacturer of scientific instruments, Acton, London; Watford, England

S G Brown Limited

1903
1903-current (2021), electronics and communications manufacturer, Berlin

Telefunken

1903
1852 - current (2009), manufacturer of ceramics, Chodziez, Poland

Chodziez

1897
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
1901-1940, medical instrument manufacturer, London, England

S Maw Son & Sons Limited

1901 - 1940
1909-1915, film company, United Kingdom

Natural Color Kinematograph Company Limited

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

General Electric

1892
1899-1977, cartographer, German

Hoelzel, Fritz

1899 - 1977
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
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
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
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
1892-1958, railway employee, British

Dodds, Harold

1892 - 1958

Dall, Horace

1901 - 1984
engineer; 1887-1971; Denmak

Petersen, Axel

1887 - 1971

Pledge, Humphrey Thomas

1903 - 1960

Worcester, George Raleigh Gray

1890 - 1969

Sempill, William Francis Forbes

1893 - 1965