Boulton, Matthew

In these circumstances, in 1774, Watt left Scotland to setde in Birmingham in the English Midlands and to pursue a new partnership with Matthew Boulton, the entrepreneurial hardware man of that town.7 Watt had met Boulton and... 

We can now begin to appreciate what Watt meant when he discussed water, steam and air. Watt characterized his long-held views on the relations of water and air in a letter to Matthew Boulton in 1782 ... 

By the time De Luc published his Idees sur laMeteorologie in 1787, Watt was not only familiar with the ideas expressed there but had learned about many of them firsthand and prior to publication. Watt s experiments in the early 1780s, which were so important to his ideas on both steam and the composition of water, were developed in concert with De Luc s work. In fact, when Watt wrote the famous letters to Matthew Boulton and to Joseph Black (discussed in Chapter 4), in which he announced his ideas about the composition of water he had been working directly with De Luc in the laboratory on steam, heat and evaporation. As we have seen, Watt s paper on the composition of water in the Philosophical Transactions in 1784 took the form of a letter to De Luc, and, of... 

In Birmingham and its environs Hutton met other members of the Lunar Society, including Matthew Boulton and Erasmus Darwin. On a visit to the latter in Lichfield, Hutton used Darwin s house as a base for expeditions into Derbyshire and also participated in an experiment with an airgun and thermometer to demonstrate how the expansion of air cools it.31 Darwin was later to make use of this fact in explaining processes of devaporation in clouds and in steam engines, as we will see in a moment. 

Witt to William Small, 24 November 1772, in J. P. Muirhead, The Origin and Progress of the Mechanical Inventions of James Watt, 3 vols (London John Murray, 1854), vol. 2, p. 34 D. P. Miller, Scales of Justice Assaying the Reputation of Matthew Boulton and the Partnership ofBoulton and Watt) Midland History, 34 (2009), pp. 58-76. 

P. M. Jones, Living the Enlightenment and the French Revolution James Watt, Matthew Boulton and their Sons) The Historical Journal, 42 (1999), pp. 157-82 E. Robinson, An English Jacobin James Watt, Junior, 1769-1848) Cambridge Historical Journal,... 

Watt to Matthew Boulton, 10 December 1782, in Muirhead, Origin and Progress, vol 2,... 

Anon, Matthew Boulton , in Public Characters of1800-1801, pp. 1-9, p. 3. The reference to the leviathan draws on the Book of Job 42 1-2, concerning the relations of man... 

Erasmus Darwin to Matthew Boulton, 12 December [17]65, Archives of Soho, MS 3782/13/53/30, as transcribed in King-Hele (ed.), Collected Letters of Darwin, pp. 65-6.1 have omitted Dr. King-Hele s interpolation of at after as in his transcription of this letter. This interpolation is an understandable but I think erroneous correction or unnecessary amplification. This is so because Darwin s concern is with the co-variation of the size of the surface at which the steam is produced and the quantity of that steam. So throughout the letter he refers to quantity varying either as the upper surface of the boiling water or as the surface of the vessel in contact with the fire. The location of the production of the steam ( at.. ) is implicit in the covariation ( as... ). 

Archives of Soho (James Watt Papers Matthew Boulton Papers Boulton Watt Archives)... 

Matthew Boulton (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1936). 

Mason, S., The Hardware Man s Daughter Matthew Boulton and his Dear Crrl (Chichester Phillimore, 2005). 

Scales of Justice Assaying the Reputation of Matthew Boulton and the Partnership of Boulton and Watt) Midland History, 34 (2009), pp. 58-76. 

Birmingham Record Office, Boulton and Watt papers Beddoes to Matthew Robinson Boulton, 15 July 1800. 

Evans, I. M. A., M. Boulton-Jones, F. H. Doyle, G. F. Jocwin, M. Lockwood, E. W. Matthews, and I. MacIntyre The Clinical Use of 1,25-Dihydroxychole-calciferol. Proceedings of XI European Symposium on Calcified Tissues. Elsinore, Denmark, 1976, 236. 

Murd<, PkU. Tram., 1808, xcviii, 124 Henry, Nicholson s jf., 1805, xi, 65 W. Matthews, An Historical Sketch of the Or in, Process, f esent State, of Gas Ugkting, 1827 Parkes, Chemical Essays, 1823, i, 379 Smiles, Lives of the Engineers. Boulton and Watt, 1904, 226, 399 Thomson, (2), 1807, i, 50 Polack, Chem. and Ind., 1956, 252, says Murdock until 1797 wrote his name Murdoch, thereafter (perhaps because Boulton and Watt wrote it so) Murdock , and periiaps the first was more correct (Thomson wrote Murdoch in 1807). 

Watt became very despondent, and in his anxiety to relieve Dr. Roebuck of the financial losses that threatened he looked around for other help. This luckily came to hand in the person of Matthew Boulton, the son of a Birmingham engineer, whom Watt had met during a journey to London for the purpose of securing his patent. Thus was set up the famous partnership of Boulton and Watt that so greatly enriched the profession of engineering."... 

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