John Wilkinson (industrialist)
John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 – 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the use and manufacture of cast iron and cast-iron goods in the Industrial Revolution.
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We will pardon Thy Mistake.
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