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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Wilkinson has received more than 19,809 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Wilkinson is the 325th most popular inventor (down from 279th in 2019), the 3,472nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,778th in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, John Wilkinson ranks 325 out of 426. Before him are Victor Hasselblad, Kálmán Kandó, Tabitha Babbitt, Patricia Bath, Jay Miner, and Harry Ferguson. After him are Edward Lawry Norton, Ivan Polzunov, Bernard Lown, Rostislav Alexeyev, Orville Gibson, and Hannibal Goodwin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, John Wilkinson ranks 30. Before him are Hiraga Gennai, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Ferdinando Galiani, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca, and Johann Gerhard König. After him are Ivan Polzunov, Pietro Verri, Thomas Warton, Caesar Rodney, and Mercy Otis Warren. Among people deceased in 1808, John Wilkinson ranks 25. Before him are José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca, Alexander Dalrymple, Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, José Celestino Mutis, Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, and Giuseppe Piermarini. After him are Étienne Pierre Ventenat, Carl Hindenburg, and Fisher Ames.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Wilkinson ranks 3,472 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Maxwell Davies (1934), Simeon Solomon (1840), John Julius Norwich (1929), Mark Lindsay Chapman (1954), Dennis Taylor (1949), and John McDouall Stuart (1815). After him are Neil Murray (1950), Ken Livingstone (1945), Hereward the Wake (1035), Margaret Mee (1909), Theo James (1984), and Tommy Hampson (1907).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, John Wilkinson ranks 54. Before him are Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Rowland Hill (1795), George Graham (1673), Henry Shrapnel (1761), Alexander Bain (1810), and Thomas Wedgwood (1771). After him are David Dunbar Buick (1854), Joseph Bramah (1748), Robert Whitehead (1823), John Milne (1850), Isaac Pitman (1813), and William Friese-Greene (1855).

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