Matthew Boulton
Industry's Great Innovator
Matthew Boulton, of the famous Boulton & Watt steam engine partnership, was an eighteenth-century designer and inventor. Before he partnered up with James Watt he was a successful industrialist manufacturing a range of silver and plated goods, buttons and buckles, and the sort of knickknackery known at the time as 'toys'. He had a business network throughout continental Europe with travelling agents who represented his various interests. Without his commercial skills, Watt would probably have failed to bring his steam engine to market, but in due course Boulton started the process that would revolutionise the world of industry and transpo…
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Weitere Autoren: Tann, Jennifer
- ISBN: 978-0-7524-8339-9
- EAN: 9780752483399
- Produktnummer: 14824886
- Verlag: The History Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'528 KB
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Jennifer Tann is the former Dean of Education and Director of Research at Birmingham University Business School. She has published five books and numerous articles on the history of industry and technology. She currently chairs the Stroudwater Textile Trust, sits on Gloucester Diocese Bishop's Council and has just been elected to the General Synod of the Church of England.
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