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- William Cockerill (1759–1832) was a British 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.
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William Cockerill (1759–1832) was a British 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.
William Cockerill was an English inventor and manufacturer who brought the Industrial Revolution to present-day Belgium. As a youth in England Cockerill revealed unusual mechanical ability by constructing models of a great number of machines. In 1794 he went to Russia as an artisan and two years.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 13, 2024 · Two Englishmen, William and John Cockerill, brought the Industrial Revolution to Belgium by developing machine shops at Liège (c. 1807), and Belgium became the first country in continental Europe to be transformed economically.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
William Cockerill was a British entrepreneur who lived in France. He initially worked as a carpenter in the production of spinning machines. Seeking better opportunities, he moved to France where he manufactured spinning machines based on English technology for a French entrepreneur.
WILLIAM COCKERILL (1759-1832), Anglo-French inventor and machinist, was born in England in 1759. He went to Belgium as a simple mechanic, and in 1799 constructed at Verviers the first wool-carding and wool-spinning machines on the continent.
The Société Cockerill's origins lie with William Cockerill, an English wool worker who initially went to Belgium in 1799 where he secured a contract to make machinery for weaving wool which proved a success.
A Briton provided the next groundbreaking advance: in 1799, William Cockerill installed the continent's first wool spinning machine in Verviers, after which he set up a machine factory in Liège. A few years later, his son John started iron production very successfully in nearby Seraing on the Sambre.
