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About William Cockerill
William Cockerill (1759–1832) was an English inventor, entrepreneur, and industrialist. Designing and producing machines for new industrial textile manufacturing, he is best known for having established a major manufacturing firm in what is now Liège Province of modern-day Belgium. He is widely considered to have been instrumental in spreading the Industrial Revolution in Continental Europe.
Everything about William Cockerill →- Occupation
- metallurgist, industrialist, businessperson, inventor
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, France
- Born
- March 27, 1759, 1757
- Died
- January 23, 1832