Seraing.

Seraing. a town of Belgium, 4 miles by rail SW. of Liège, stands on the right bank of the Meuse, and is connected by a handsome suspension bridge with the village of Jemeppe. It is the seat of a colossal manufactory of steam-machinery, locomotives, &c., which was established by an Englishman, John Cockerill (q.v.), in 1817 in the old summer palace of the bishops of Liège. On his death in 1840 the concern passed into the hands of the John Cockerill Society. It now employs some 12,000 workpeople in hundreds of machine-shops, furnace-yards, forges, boiler-works, coal-mines, and other branches. In this establishment were made the first locomotive used on the Continent (1835), the machinery for boring the Mont Cenis tunnel, and the great lion on the field of Waterloo. Pop. (1827) 2000; (1881) 28,385; (1890) 33,912.