Matthew Boulton
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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
1792 portrait
Blue Plaque for Matthew Boulton commemorating his birthplace in Birmingham, England
The Soho Manufactory
Boulton & Fothergill church flagon in sterling silver, 1774
Lunar Society of Birmingham
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The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a British dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectu
Matthew Boulton
…installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines in Britain and abroad, initially in mines and then in factories. Boulton was a key member of the Lunar Society, a group of Birmingham-area men prominent in the arts, sciences, and theology. Members included Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood and Joseph…
Soho House in Handsworth, Birmingham, a regular venue for meetings of the Lunar Society
Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Ducreux, 1777
Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1770 (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery)