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Encyclopedia Britannica



BOULTON, MATTHEW (1728-1809)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 324 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BOULTON, MATTHEW (1728-1809) , English manufacturer and engineer, was born on the 3rd of September 1728, at Birmingham, where his father,
Matthew
  Boulton the elder, was a manufacturer of metal articles of various kinds. To this business he succeeded on his father's death in 1759, and in consequence of its growth removed his works in 1762 from Snowhill to what was then a tract of barren heath at Soho, 2 M. north of Birmingham. Here he undertook the manufacture of artistic objects in metal, as well as the reproduction of oil paintings by a mechanical process in which he was associated with Francis Eginton (1737-18o5), who subsequently achieved a reputation as a worker in stained or enamelled glass. About 1767, Boulton, who was finding the need of improving the
motive
  power for his machinery, made the acquaintance of James
Watt
 , who on his side appreciated the advantages offered by the Soho works for the development of his steam-
engine
 . In 1772
Watt
 's partner, Dr John Roebuck, got into
financial
  difficulties, and Boulton, to .whom he owed 1200, accepted the two-thirds share in Watt's patent held by him in
satisfaction
  of the debt. Three years later Boulton and Watt formally entered into partnership, and it was mainly through the energy and self-sacrifice of the former, who devoted all the
capital
  he possessed or could borrow to the enterprise, that the steam-
engine
  was at length made a commercial success. It was also owing to Boulton that in 1775 an act of
parliament
  was obtained extending the term of Watt's 1769 patent to 1799. In 1800 the two partners retired from the business, which they handed over to their sons,
Matthew
  Robinson Boulton and James Watt junior. In 1788 Boulton turned his attention to coining machinery, and erected at Soho a complete plant with which he struck coins for the Sierra Leone and
East
  India companies and for Russia, and in 1797 produced a new copper coinage for
Great
  Britain. In 1797 he took out a patent in connexion with raising water on the principle of the hydraulic ram. He died at Birmingham on the 18th of August 18og.


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