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Historical People B Boulton, Matthew

Boulton, Matthew

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Matthew BoultonBoulton, Matthew (1728-1809), engineer, b. Birmingham, England.

Matthew Boulton was a partner of James Watt.

Together, in 1774, they set up a factory to make steam engines in Birmingham.