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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 (born Sept. 3, 1728, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng.—died Aug. 17, 1809, Birmingham) was an English manufacturer and engineer who financed and introduced James Watt’s steam engine.
Matthew Boulton. 1728-1809. English engineer and industrialist whose financial backing and ability to raise funds from others enabled James Watt to perfect his steam engine.
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...
Matthew Boulton. 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.
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’.
Aug 17, 2016 · Matthew Boulton, an English manufacturer, died Aug. 17, 1809, just shy of his 81st birthday. Boulton ran a factory in Soho, just outside Birmingham, and in 1775 he teamed up with James Watt to manufacture steam engines.
