Matthew Boulton : enterprising industrialist of the Enlightenment /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2016
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| Series: | Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : Matthew Boulton, enterprising industrialist of the enlightenment / Kenneth Quickenden, Malcolm Dick, Sally Baggott
- 2. Matthew Boulton, Birmingham and the Enlightenment / Peter M. Jones
- 3. Matthew Boulton, innovator / Jennifer Tann
- 4. Was Matthew Boulton a scientist? Operating between the abstract and the entrepreneurial / David Philip Miller
- 5. The origins of the Soho Manufactory and its layout / George Demidowicz
- 6. Boulton, Watt and Wilkinson : the birth of the improved steam engine / Jim Andrew
- 7. Matthew Boulton's copper / Peter Northover, Nick Wilcox
- 8. The mechanical paintings of Matthew Boulton and Francis Eginton / Barbara Fogarty
- 9. Samuel Garbett and early Boulton and Fothergill assay silver / Kenneth Quickenden
- 10. Hegemony and hallmarking : Matthew Boulton and the battle for the Birmingham Assay Office / Sally Baggott
- 11. Dark Satanic millwrights? Forging foremanship in the industrial revolution : Matthew Boulton and the leading hands of Boulton and Watt / Joseph Melling
- 12. Workers at the Soho Mint (1788-1809) / Sue Tungate
- 13. Matthew Boulton's Jewish partners between France and England : innovative networks and merchant enlightenment / Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, Bernard Vaisbrot
- 14. Enlightened entrepreneurs versus 'philosophical pirate' (1788-1809) : two faces of the enlightenment / Irina Gouzévitch
- 15. Creating an image : portrait prints of Matthew Boulton / Val Loggie
- 16. The death of Matthew Boulton 1809 : ceremony, controversy and commemoration / Malcolm Dick