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

W and J George and Becker Limited

1910 - 1954
1915-1945, camera manufacturer, London

Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Company Limited

1915 - 1945
1919-1995, multimedia publisher, educational film makers, Chicago

Society for Visual Education Inc.

1919 - 1995
1917-1958, manufacturer of projectors and cine equipment, Leeds, United Kingdom

Kalee Limited

1917 - 1958
1915-1960, aircraft manufacturer, Hayes, Middlesex; Stockport, Cheshire; Hamble, Hampshire, England, British

Fairey Aviation Company Limited

1915 - 1960

William Grey Walter

1910 - 1977
active, c. 1930 - current (2009), manufacturer of water purification equipment, United Kingdom

The Permutit Company Limited

1912 - 1993
1920-1958, crystallographer, British; English

Rosalind Franklin

1920 - 1958
1910-1936, manufacturer of ball bearings, Luton, England

Skefco Ball Bearing Company

1910 - 1936
about 1918-2010, artist, British

Rita Bronowski

1918 - 2010
1910-2003, manufacturer of bicycles, Aston, Birmingham, England, British

Hercules Cycle and Motor Company Limited

1910 - 2003
active 1920-1970, manufacturer of pharmaceuticals; chemical manufacturer, UK subsiduary of Swiss co

Geigy (UK) Limited

1920 - 1970
1945-1964, camera and optical instrument maker, East Germany

VEB Carl Zeiss Jena, Jena

1905 - 1964
1918-2000, steam engineer; manufacturer of stationary engines, Grantham, English; British

Ruston and Hornsby Limited

1918 - 2000
1920-1982, manufacturer of radio, television, military and scientific equipment, Slough, England

McMichael Limited

1920 - 1982
1915-1922, scientific instrument maker, London, England

Troughton and Simms Limited

1915 - 1922

Jack Eric Morpurgo

1918 - 2000
(1839)1919-1972, photographic retailer; pharmacist, London, England

Wallace Heaton Limited, Wallace Heaton

1919 - 1972
1910-1994, chemist; crystallographer, British

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin

1910 - 1994

Harold William Shipton

1920 - 2007
1919-1926, camera manufacturer, Stuttgart

Contessa-Nettel AG

1919 - 1926
1951-1961, lens, camera and film manufacturer, London

Ross-Ensign Ltd

1904 - 1961
1919- c1965, electrical instrument manufacturer, Weybridge, Surrey

Peto Scott Electrical Instruments

1919 - 1965
1915-2001, electronic test equipment manufacturer, Massachusetts, US

General Radio Company

1915 - 2001
1913-1960, electrical switchgear manufacturer, Openshaw, Manchester

Ferguson Pailin Limited

1913 - 1960
c.1920-1939, radio and battery manufacturer and retailer, London

Amplion Limited

1920 - 1939

George Duncan Dawson

1912 - 1983
1911-present, manufacturer, British

Record Electrical Co.

1911
1910-2002?, hospital, Farnborough Common, Orpington, England

Farnborough Hospital

1910 - 2002
1912-1954, mathematician; computer scientist, British

Alan Turing

1912 - 1954
1911-1932, telephone exchange manufacturer, Liverpool, England

Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company

1911 - 1932
1911-1969, Engineering Society, London

Institution of Locomotive Engineers

1911 - 1969
1918-1974, wagon manufacturer, Birmingham

Wagon Repairs Ltd

1918 - 1974
1913-1984, photographer, British

Jean Straker

1913 - 1984
1911-1987, locomotive manufacturer, Bedford

Simplex

1911 - 1987

Audrey Smith

1915 - 1981
1910-1999, first woman to receive a breast implant in Britain (1967), English

Gertrude Shilling

1910 - 1999
1914-1991, radio and communications manufacturer, Massachusetts

National Radio Company

1914 - 1991

Hugh McGregor Ross

1917 - 2014

Creed and Company Limited

1912 - 1928

Jimmy Harrison

1918 - 2007
1914-2004, engineer and inventor of computerised tomography, British

Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold

1919 - 2004

Kenneth Maynard Wood

1916 - 1997
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Gordon Leonard Rogers

1916 - 2006
1916-1993, artist; landscape artist; illustrator, British

Richard Ward

1916 - 1993
active 1950s-1970s, 1919-2008, graphic designer; poster artist; artist, British

Harry Stevens

1919 - 2008
1920-present, optical goods manufacturer,Braunschweig

Franke and Heidecke

1920
1918-1967, steel and coal manufacturer, South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

United Steel Companies Ltd.

1918 - 1967
1918-1968, industrial manufacturer, Rugby and Coventry, Warwickshire; Bradford, Yorkshire; Preston, Lancashire, England, British

English Electric Company Limited

1918 - 1968
1911-1968, poster printer; printer

Sun Engraving Company Limited

1911 - 1968