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- Davy, Humphrey
- The Inventor of the Safety Lamp
(Cassell's Family Paper, 1860)
- Inventor of a safety lamp that prevented the flame of the lamp from coming into contact with explosive gases, thus reducing the incidences of explosions in coal mines.
- De Serviere, Nicholas Grollier
- A Forgotten Genius, by C. Van Noorden
(The Strand, 1896A)
- 17th-century inventor.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, by Lydia M. Millard
(Demorest, 1879)
- Kant, Immanuel
- Immanuel Kant, by Emma Brewer
(Girl's Own Paper, 1885)
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Sir Isaac Newton
(Illustrated London Almanack, 1854)
- Brief article on the anniversary of the death of Sir Isaac Newton, with pictures of his watch, death-mask and grammar school.
- Schiller, Johann Friedrich
- Johann Friedrich Schiller, by Lydia M. Millard
(Demorest, 1880)
- Stephenson, George
- George Stephenson
(Cassell's Family Paper, 1860)
- An English civil and mechanical engineer who built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.
- The Centenary of Stephenson's Birth
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1881)
- Von Haller, Albrecht
- Haller the Physician
(Leisure Hour, 1860)
- An 18th-century German doctor.
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