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English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith
- Matthew Boulton FRS (/ ˈboʊltən / ⓘ BOHL-tən; 3 September 1728 – 17 August 1809) was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith. He was a business partner of the Scottish engineer James Watt.
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Matthew Boulton FRS ( / ˈboʊltən / ⓘ BOHL-tən; 3 September 1728 – 17 August 1809) was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith. He was a business partner of the Scottish engineer James Watt.
Matthew Boulton was an English manufacturer and engineer who financed and introduced James Watt’s steam engine. After managing his father’s hardware business, in 1762 Boulton built the Soho manufactory near Birmingham.
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Oct 20, 2014 · Matthew Boulton: The grandfather of modern coinage. In 18th Century England, coin counterfeiting was rife until an entrepreneur dubbed the Richard Branson of his day harnessed the new technology...
English engineer and industrialist whose financial backing and ability to raise funds from others enabled James Watt to perfect his steam engine. In 1759 when his father died, Boulton inherited his father's silver business and over the next several years expanded it into the great Soho works.
Scientist, Philanthropist and Engineer. Matthew Boulton, entrepreneur of the Industrial Revolution, is buried at St Mary's, Handsworth near Birmingham. Memorial. On 17th October 2014 a cast iron floor stone was unveiled to his memory in St Paul's chapel in Westminster Abbey.
Matthew Boulton FRS (3 September 1728 – 17 August 1809) was an English manufacturer and the business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt. In the last quarter of the 18th century, the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines.
Dec 1, 2010 · Matthew Boulton (1728–1809) was the mover and shaker of what Joel Mokyr, in his recent The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700–1850 (Yale University Press, 2010), has termed the ‘industrial enlightenment’.
