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Cockerill, John
John Cockerill (3 August 1790 – 9 June 1840) was an English-born industrialist who became a prominent businessman in Belgium. Born at Haslingden, Lancashire, England, he was brought by his father (British entrepreneur William Cockerill) to the Liège region, where he continued the family tradition of building wool-processing machinery. He founded an ironworks named John Cockerill & Cie. (English: John Cockerill & Company). [Wikipedia, 2020-12-03]
| Identifier | Title | Date | Level of description | Other information | |
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| GFA 1/99 | Johann Conrad Fischer; Patente und Lizenzen | 1824 – 1959 | File: 1 file | ||
| GFA 30/3 | Hans Boesch: Die Unternehmungen von Johann Conrad Fischer. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Wirtschaftsgeographie der Stahlindustrie in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts | 1951 | File: 5 volumes | digitized |