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Lunar Society
ORGANIZATION
Club of British scientists, met 1765 to 1813.
Founding Date: 1765
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Matthew Boulton |
Business |
3-Sep-1728 |
17-Aug-1809 |
Financed the early steam engine |
| Erasmus Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Dec-1731 |
18-Apr-1802 |
English naturalist, very bad poet |
| Benjamin Franklin |
Diplomat |
17-Jan-1706 |
17-Apr-1790 |
American founding father |
| Derek C. Hathaway |
Business |
c. 1945 |
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CEO of Harsco, 1994-2007 |
| Jerry Pournelle |
Author |
7-Aug-1933 |
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Sci-Fi collaborator with Larry Niven |
| Joseph Priestley |
Chemist |
13-Mar-1733 |
6-Feb-1804 |
Investigated gases, discovered Oxygen |
| James Watt |
Inventor |
19-Jan-1736 |
19-Aug-1819 |
Invented modern steam engine |
| Josiah Wedgwood |
Artist |
1730 |
3-Jan-1795 |
Greatest potter of all time |
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