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Matthew
Boulton: a Revolutionary Player explores the life and importance of
the industrialist and entrepreneur, Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), a central
figure in Britain’s Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. He promoted
new technology and manufacturing techniques to produce buttons, buckles,
silverware, ormolu, coins and medals in his Soho Manufactory and Mint
near Birmingham. In partnership with the inventor, James Watt, he improved
the steam engine and stimulated the application of steam power to industry
and transport.
The essays in this book have been commissioned by Dr Malcolm Dick, at
the Centre for Birmingham and Midlands History, University of Birmingham,
to coincide with the bicentenary of Boulton’s death in 1809. It applies
the expertise of scholars and heritage professionals to communicate the
state of current knowledge about Boulton to a wide public as well as specialists
in the history of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
