Author : Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300143584
Explains how Boulton, a Birmingham "toy"--Maker producing buttons, buckles and silverware, went into business with James Watt and exported Boulton & Watt steam engines all over the world. His determination to discourage counterfeiters led to a contract to manufacture British coinage at his mint, and his ormolu ornaments decorated aristocratic drawing rooms.
Author : Sally Baggott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317099311
Matthew Boulton was a leading industrialist, entrepreneur and Enlightenment figure. Often overshadowed through his association with James Watt, his Soho manufactories put Birmingham at the centre of what has recently been termed 'The Industrial Enlightenment'. Exploring his many activities and manufactures-and the regional, national and international context in which he operated-this publication provides a valuable index to the current state of Boulton studies. Combining original contributions from social, economic, and cultural historians, with those of historians of science, technology and art, archaeologists and heritage professionals, the book sheds new light on the general culture of the eighteenth century, including patterns of work, production and consumption of the products of art and industry. The book also extends and enhances knowledge of the Enlightenment, industrialization and the processes of globalization in the eighteenth century.
Author : Henry Winram Dickinson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
"Memoir of Boulton by Watt": pages [203]-208.
Author : H. W. Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 1937
Category :
ISBN : 1108012248
This 1939 work gives deserved recognition to the achievements of the engineer and businessman Matthew Boulton. Boulton's importance has generally been overshadowed by that of his partner James Watt, but he was a significant figure in his own right, particularly in relation to the Soho Foundry and his production of coins and medals. He belonged to a network of highly significant men of the period, including Josiah Wedgwood, Erasmus Darwin and Benjamin Franklin, and was a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham. An engineer by profession, H. W. Dickinson researched widely, and published highly readable works on the history of the steam engine, Watt, and Trevithick, also reissued in this series. He succeeds in producing a work which appeals to the scientist, the historian and the general reader, without feeling obliged to over-simplify the technical details.
Author : Nicholas Goodison
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Nicholas Goodison revisits his earlier exhaustive study of Boulton's ormolu ornaments and his
Author : Matthew Myer Boulton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 2008-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802829724
This volume outlines a Christian theology that takes worship as its basic framework, as the occasion of not only an approach toward God in piety but also separation from God in sin. Drawing on Luther, Calvin, and especially Karl Barth, Matthew Myer Boulton builds a Reformed liturgical theology, maintaining that the God of Jesus Christ is a "God against religion," one who saves human beings from religion by entering it, transforming it, and ultimately ending it.
Author : Matthew Myer Boulton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802865649
Contemplates Calvin's Institutes as practical spiritual theology For many today, John Calvin is best known as an austere, strictly intellectual teacher of Protestant doctrine. But Matthew Myer Boulton reads him very differently, arguing that for Calvin, Christian theology is properly conceived and articulated primarily for the sake of everyday, practical formation through the church's treasury of spiritual disciplines. Although Calvin famously opposed the cloister, Boulton shows that his purpose was not the eradication but rather the democratization of spiritual disciplines often associated with monasticism. Ordinary disciples, too, Calvin insisted, should embrace such formative practices as close scriptural study, daily prayer and worship, regular Psalm singing, and frequent celebration of the Lord's Supper. This deeply formational approach to Christian doctrine provides a fruitful template for Protestant theology today -- and tomorrow.
Author : Eric Delieb
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Silverwork
ISBN :
Author : George Demidowicz
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1802070931
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the ground-breaking historic industrial complex created to the west of Birmingham in the eighteenth century and associated with Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and William Murdoch. The Soho Manufactory (1761-1863) and Soho Mint (1788-1850s) were both situated in the historic parish of Handsworth, now in the city of Birmingham, and the Soho Foundry (1795-1895) lay in the historic township of Smethwick, now within Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. Together they played a key role in the Industrial Revolution , achieving many world 'firsts': the first working Watt steam engine, the first steam-engine powered mint and the first purpose-built steam engine manufactory (the Soho Foundry), to name but a few. Existing literature focuses largely on the biography of the people, primarily Boulton and Watt, or the products they manufactured. The place - the Soho complex - has attracted very little attention. This volume is the first to concentrate on the buildings themselves analysing not only their physical origins, development and eventual decline but also the water and steam power systems adopted. An interdisciplinary approach has been employed combining archival research in the magnificent Soho collection at the Library of Birmingham with the results of archaeological excavations. The volume is profusely illustrated with archival material, most published for the first time, and contains a large number of reconstruction plans and drawings by the author.
Author : Nicholas Goodison
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN :
