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See also:BOULTON, See also:MATTHEW (1728-1809) , See also:English manufacturer and engineer, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:September 1728, at See also:Birmingham, where his See also:father, Matthew Boulton the See also:elder, was a manufacturer of See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal articles of various kinds. To this business he succeeded on his father's See also:death in 1759, and in consequence of its growth removed his See also:works in 1762 from Snowhill to what was then a See also:tract of barren See also:heath at Soho, 2 M. See also:north of Birmingham. Here he undertook the manufacture of See also:artistic See also:objects in metal, as well as the See also:reproduction of oil paintings by a See also:mechanical See also:process in which he was associated with See also:Francis Eginton (1737-18o5), who subsequently achieved a reputation as a worker in stained or enamelled See also:glass. About 1767, Boulton, who was finding the need of improving the See also:motive See also:power for his machinery, made the acquaintance of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Watt, who on his See also:side appreciated the advantages offered by the Soho works for the development of his See also:steam-See also:engine. In 1772 Watt's partner, Dr See also:John See also:Roebuck, got into See also:financial difficulties, and Boulton, to .whom he owed £1200, accepted the two-thirds See also:share in Watt's patent held by him in See also:satisfaction of the See also:debt. Three years later Boulton and Watt formally entered into See also:partnership, and it was mainly through the See also:energy and self-See also:sacrifice of the former, who devoted all the See also:capital he possessed or could See also: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 See also:act of See also:parliament was obtained extending the See also: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 See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson Boulton and James Watt junior. In 1788 Boulton turned his See also:attention to coining machinery, and erected at Soho a See also:complete plant with which he struck coins for the Sierra Leone and See also:East See also:India companies and for See also:Russia, and in 1797 produced a new See also:copper coinage for See also:Great See also:Britain. In 1797 he took out a patent in connexion with raising See also:water on the principle of the See also:hydraulic See also:ram. He died at Birmingham on the 18th of See also:August 18og.
End of Article: BOULTON, MATTHEW (1728-1809)
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