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Soho House (middle building); rear view with side buildings, as seen from today's access road. Soho House is a museum run by Birmingham Museums Trust, celebrating Matthew Boulton's life, his partnership with James Watt, his membership of the Lunar Society of Birmingham and his contribution to the Midlands Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
The leading figure behind the establishment of the society as a more organised body during this early period seems to have been Matthew Boulton: his home at Soho House in Handsworth was the principal venue for meetings, and in 1776 he is recorded as planning "to make many Motions to the Members respecting new Laws, and regulations, such as will ...
Matthew Boulton FRS (/ ˈ b oʊ l t ən / ⓘ BOHL-tən; 3 September 1728 – 17 August 1809) was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith.He was a business partner of the Scottish engineer James Watt.
Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory on Handsworth heath is completed for the mass production of buckles, buttons and other "toys" and becomes a significant tourist attraction. Lunar Society of Birmingham begins to meet. 1766 Matthew Boulton moves into Soho House following completion of Soho Manufactory.
Boulton & Watt was an early British engineering and manufacturing firm in the business of designing and making marine and stationary steam engines.Founded in the English West Midlands around Birmingham in 1775 as a partnership between the English manufacturer Matthew Boulton and the Scottish engineer James Watt, the firm had a major role in the Industrial Revolution and grew to be a major ...
Soho Foundry main gate Blue plaque at the main gate Listed canal roving bridge at entrance to Soho Foundry Loop canal (now dry). Soho Foundry is a factory created in 1795 by Matthew Boulton and James Watt and their sons Matthew Robinson Boulton and James Watt Jr. [1] at Smethwick, West Midlands, England (grid reference), for the manufacture of steam engines.
The new owner of Matthew Perry’s former California home plans to honor the Friends star’s legacy. “We are so excited to share that we bought a home in Los Angeles earlier this month ...
In 1756, Edward Ruston leased land on Handsworth Heath from the Lord of the Manor. He deepened Hockley Brook, and built a rolling mill powered by it. [2]In 1761 (or 1764 [2]) the "toy" manufacturer Matthew Boulton and his business partner John Fothergill leased the site including a cottage and the mill.