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John Wilkinson

1728 - 1808

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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 and piston cylinders used in the steam engines of James Watt. His boring machine has been called the first machine tool. He also developed a blowing device for blast furnaces that allowed higher temperatures, increasing their efficiency, and helped sponsor the first iron bridge in Coalbrookdale. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Wilkinson is the 345th most popular inventor (down from 325th in 2019), the 4,042nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,473rd in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Inventor.

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Among inventors, John Wilkinson ranks 345 out of 426. Before him are Henry Shrapnel, Edward Lawry Norton, David Dunbar Buick, William Fothergill Cooke, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, and Ivan Polzunov. After him are Joseph Timchenko, Prokop Diviš, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Henry M. Leland, Thomas Wedgwood, and Kálmán Tihanyi.

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Among people born in 1728, John Wilkinson ranks 32. Before him are Franz Xaver von Wulfen, José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca, Johann Gerhard König, Pietro Verri, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, and Ivan Polzunov. After him are Thomas Warton, Caesar Rodney, and Mercy Otis Warren. Among people deceased in 1808, John Wilkinson ranks 27. Before him are Alexander Dalrymple, Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Giuseppe Piermarini, Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, and Carl Hindenburg. After him is Fisher Ames.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Wilkinson ranks 4,043 out of 8,785. Before him are David Morrissey (1964), Shirley Eaton (1937), John Farnham (1949), Anthony D. Smith (1939), Bert Jansch (1943), and Charles Blagden (1748). After him are John Byng (1704), Edgar Syers (1863), Arthur Smith Woodward (1864), Ron Tauranac (1925), Chris Blackwell (1937), and Brian Murphy (1932).

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Among inventors born in United Kingdom, John Wilkinson ranks 56. Before him are Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Abraham Darby I (1678), Harry Brearley (1871), Henry Shrapnel (1761), David Dunbar Buick (1854), and William Fothergill Cooke (1806). After him are Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), Thomas Wedgwood (1771), Joseph Bramah (1748), John Milne (1850), Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847), and Isaac Pitman (1813).

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