John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson 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 ca
Wilkinson by Lemuel Francis Abbott
Iron cannons at Youghal, County Cork, Ireland
Steam engine by James Watt (1797)
The Iron Bridge spanning the River Severn in Shropshire
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Broseley is a market town in Shropshire, England, with a population of 4,929 at the 2011 Census and an estimate of 5,022 in 2019. The River Severn flows to its north and east. The first iron bridge in
John Wilkinson (industrialist)
…in his foundry, from 1755 John Wilkinson became a partner in the Bersham concern and in 1757 with partners, he erected a blast furnace at Willey, near Broseley in Shropshire. Later he built another furnace and works at New Willey. He made his home in Broseley in a house called 'The Lawns' which became his…
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Thomas Salter Pyne, in Vanity Fair, 1900
Hermione Baddeley, 1970s