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Born December 10, 1855 • England
Died October 24, 1956 (aged 100) • England
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Chippendale, Thomas: drawing of a combined desk and bookcase
Thomas Chippendale
British cabinetmaker
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
English engineer and inventor
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Design for a library table by Thomas Sheraton, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia (1805)
Thomas Sheraton
English furniture designer
Design for a sofa by George Hepplewhite, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788).
George Hepplewhite
British cabinetmaker
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William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield
British industrialist
Atkins, Anna: Ferns
Anna Atkins
English photographer and botanist
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Samuel Shrowder Pickles
English chemist
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Sir Alliott Verdon Roe
British aircraft designer
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
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Sir Goldsworthy Gurney
English inventor
Sir Frederick Handley Page
Sir Frederick Handley Page
British aircraft designer
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Geoffrey de Havilland
British aircraft designer
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Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray
British engineer and politician
Sopwith, Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch
Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith
British aircraft designer
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Thomas Chippendale, II
British cabinetmaker
Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
British naturalist and paleontologist
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Peter Dollond
British optician
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Giovanni Battista Pirelli
Italian industrialist

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