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Boulton, Matthew

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Boulton, Matthew (1728–1809). Birmingham entrepreneur and engineer. Boulton developed his father's button business from 1759, establishing his new Soho Works (1760–2). Like his associate Wedgwood, he integrated manufacturing with mercantile functions. Already chronically short of water power by 1771, he acquired a two‐thirds share of Watt's 1769 patent (1773), and entered partnership (1775).

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