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John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution. He was the inventor of a precision boring machine that could bore cast iron cylinders, such as cannon barrels [1] and piston cylinders used in the steam ...
John Wilkinson (born 1728, Clifton, Cumberland, Eng.—died July 14, 1808, Bradley, Staffordshire) was a British industrialist known as “the great Staffordshire ironmaster” who found new applications for iron and who devised a boring machine essential to the success of James Watt’s steam engine.
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Wilkinson was a major force behind the construction in 1779 of an iron bridge, the world's first, across the River Severn at Coalbrookdale. In 1787, Wilkinson launched the first iron barge. His ...
John "Iron-Mad Jack" Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was nicknamed “Iron Mad Jack” as he was a shrewd entrepreneur who owned shares in Thomas Williams’ copper companies in Flintshire and Anglesey. He was however most well known as a pioneer of the Iron Industry in Wrexham.
Born in 1728 at Clifton, Cumberland, England, Wilkinson was exposed to iron-furnace work at an early age through his father, an ironmaster, farmer, and part-time inventor. By 1763 he had become operator of his own furnace, and soonbecame a leading supplier of castings and armaments. His first boring machine, patented in 1774, was constructed ...
He was an 18th century industrialist who made his fortune by selling good quality goods made of iron and was renowned as ironmaster John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson. John Wilkinson was born in 1728 in Little Clifton, Bridgefoot, Cumberland, England to Isaac Wilkinson, an ironworker and inventor, and his wife, Mary Johnson.
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1728-1808. English Inventor. J ohn Wilkinson is best remembered for developing the machine tools and techniques that helped make it possible to power the Industrial Revolution. By developing precision metalworking tools, Wilkinson was able to bore accurate, consistent cylinders for the steam engines under development by James Watt (1736-1819).
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