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John Wilkinson - King of the Ironmasters (Paperback)
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John Wilkinson - King of the Ironmasters (Paperback)
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List price R447
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From a farming background in Cumbria, John Wilkinson's remarkable
abilities and ambitions ensured his rise to pre-eminence among the
gifted pioneers of the industrial revolution. His colleagues and
friends were similarly talented characters, including James Watt,
Josiah Wedgwood, Richard Crawshay and Thomas Telford. Wilkinson
achieved great leaps in the iron industry and munitions, including
the first use of sound castings and accurate boring for cannon
manufacture, but he was also influential in the development of
steam railway engines, waterways, and copper refining, and worked
extensively with lead and chemicals. But while Wilkinson's
technological triumphs were admired by his contemporaries, his
personal affairs were complicated and sometimes tragic. This
well-informed and readable book, based on research by the author
born of a fascination with Wilkinson after living at his family
home, gives a unique insight into the character and thinking of the
man Telford named 'King of the Ironmasters'.
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