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Matthew Boulton

1728 - 1809

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Matthew Boulton ( BOHL-tən; 3 September 1728 – 17 August 1809) 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 techniques to the minting of coins, striking millions of pieces for Britain and other countries, and supplying the Royal Mint with up-to-date equipment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Matthew Boulton is the 181st most popular inventor (down from 174th in 2019), the 1,799th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,506th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Matthew Boulton ranks 181 out of 426. Before him are Uziel Gal, Gaston Glock, Henrich Focke, Émile Baudot, Artur Fischer, and Harold Eugene Edgerton. After him are Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Gunther von Hagens, William Murdoch, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Fausto Veranzio, and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff.

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Among people born in 1728, Matthew Boulton ranks 20. Before him are Robert Adam, Ali Bey al-Kabir, Oliver Goldsmith, Hiraga Gennai, Johann Adam Hiller, and John Hunter. After him are Johann Andreas Stein, Carlo Allioni, Kirill Razumovski, Ferdinando Galiani, Shah Alam II, and Franz Xaver von Wulfen. Among people deceased in 1809, Matthew Boulton ranks 14. Before him are Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Ueda Akinari, August Ludwig von Schlözer, Joseph-Marie Vien, and Leopold Auenbrugger. After him are François Laurent d'Arlandes, John Moore, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Archduke Karl of Austria-Este, Augustin Pajou, and Ludwig von Cobenzl.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Matthew Boulton ranks 1,799 out of 8,785. Before him are Anne Perry (1938), John Nash (1752), Stephen Toulmin (1922), Martin Gore (1961), Anthony Minghella (1954), and Tom Hooper (1972). After him are Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870), Colin McRae (1968), Claire Bloom (1931), Hudson Taylor (1832), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), and Francis Baily (1774).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Matthew Boulton ranks 28. Before him are John Kay (1704), Robert Stirling (1790), Oliver Lodge (1851), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), and Sandford Fleming (1827). After him are William Murdoch (1754), James Dyson (1947), David Edward Hughes (1831), Jethro Tull (1674), Elihu Thomson (1853), and Hubert Cecil Booth (1871).

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