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John Cockerill
John Cockerill was an English-born industrialist who became a pioneer of the Industrial Revolution on the Continent. In 1817 he set up an ironworks and machine factory at Seraing near Liège, which grew into one of the largest industrial concerns in Europe, building steam engines, locomotives and ships. The company bearing his name still exists in Belgium.
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