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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 ...
16 de abr. de 2024 · 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.
John Wilkinson (1728-1808) fue un inventor e industrial británico, uno de los más destacados maestros del hierro de los inicios de la Revolución Industrial. Cuando contaba veinte años de edad construyó en Saffordshire una fragua para hierro.
In 1774 John Wilkinson invented a boring machine in which the shaft that held the cutting tool extended through the cylinder and was supported on both ends, unlike the cantilevered borers then in use.
John "Loco de Hierro" Wilkinson (1728 - 14 de julio de 1808) fue un industrial inglés que fue pionero en la fabricación de hierro fundido y el uso de productos de hierro fundido durante la Revolución Industrial. Fue el inventor de una máquina perforadora de precisión que podía perforar cilindros de hierro fundido, como los cañones de ...
In 1774-1775, Wilkinson invented a cannon-boring machine which produced safer and more accurate cannons. He later patented a method to make spiral groves in cannons that would project the ball...
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).
