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Matthew Boulton was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith. He was a business partner of the Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century, the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines, which were a great advance on the state of the art, making possible the mechanisation of factories and mills. Boulton applied modern t…
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Born 3 September 1728 · Died 17 August 1809 · Q469269
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s pulse rates at different ages, on the movements of the planets, and on how to make sealing wax and disappearing ink. However, Erasmus Darwin, another fellow enthusiast who became a member of the Lunar Society, wrote to him in 1763,
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“I scarcely know which was grandest, the sounds or the scene. Both was transcendibly fine that it is not in my power of words to describe. In the grand Halleluja my soul almost ascended from my body.”
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“s pulse rates at different ages, on the movements of the planets, and on how to make sealing wax and disappearing ink. However, Erasmus Darwin, another fellow enthusiast who became a member of the Lunar Society, wrote to him in 1763,”
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“Our navigation goes on prosperously; the junction with the Wolverhampton Canal is complete, and we already sail to Bristol and to Hull.”
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“I am very desirous of becoming a great silversmith, yet I am determined not to take up that branch in the large way I intended, unless powers can be obtained to have a marking hall [assay office] at Birmingham.”
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On 29 May 2009 the Bank of England announced that Boulton and Watt would appear on a new £50 note.
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Matthew Boulton College was named in his honour in 1957.
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When Boulton's were withdrawn
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Four years after his death, the Society was dissolved and a lottery was held to dispose of its assets
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Died 1809-08-17.
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Shortly before Boulton's death
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By the striking of almost ninety million pieces for the East India Company
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And a major issue of coppers to circulate only in Ireland
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Boulton was awarded the contract to equip it with modern machinery
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"[Y]our friends fear much that your necessary attention to the operation of the coinage may injure your health"
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His continued activity distressed Watt, who had entirely retired from Soho, and who wrote to Boulton in 1804, "[Y]our friends fear much that your necessary attention to the operation of the coinage may injure your health".
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Both Boulton and Watt retired from the partnership, each turning over his role to his namesake son
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With the expiry of the patent in 1800 both Boulton and Watt retired from the partnership, each turning over his role to his namesake son.
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When the price of copper increased and it had proved too heavy for commerce and was difficult to strike
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Though continuing to run his mint, and died in 1809
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Career landmark: High Sheriff of Staffordshire (1794–1795).
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Born 1728-09-03.
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