John Wilkinson (industrialist) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-02

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00:00:45 1 Biography
00:00:55 1.1 Early life
00:02:26 1.2 Iron master
00:05:46 2 Inventions
00:05:55 2.1 Boring machine for steam engines
00:07:59 2.2 Hydraulic blowing engine
00:08:34 3 Iron Bridge
00:10:35 4 Copper interests
00:13:09 5 Lead mines and works
00:13:58 6 Philanthropy
00:14:50 7 Family life, and death



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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 those used in 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.