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Born 1813 • Bishop’s Stortford • England
Died May 2, 1857 (aged 44) • London • England
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge
British photographer
Abney
Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney
British chemist and photographer
Leopold Godowsky, Jr.
American musician and photography technician
Harold Edgerton
American electrical engineer and photographer
Gill, Sir David
Sir David Gill
Scottish astronomer
Frederic Eugene Ives
American photographer and inventor
Alexander Stanley Elmore
English metallurgist
Francis Edward Elmore
English metallurgist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
English inventor and engineer
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
Bracket clock with oak case, ebony veneer, and gilt bronze mounts by Thomas Tompion, c. 1690; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Thomas Tompion
English clockmaker
Edward Gordon Craig, 1890.
Edward Gordon Craig
British actor and director
Josiah Wedgwood.
Josiah Wedgwood
English craftsman
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
British inventor
William Oughtred, watercolour by George Perfect Harding after an engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Oughtred
English mathematician
Louis Essen
British physicist