Who is this? Lived 1736 - 1819. Born in Greenock, Inventor, Partnered Matthew Boulton?
Matthew Robinson Boulton Boulton & Paul was a successful general manufacturing firm, also starting in aircraft production in 1914/1915. The aircraft manufacturing division was spun off from the main construction business in 1934, subsequently moving to Wolverhampton. Footnotes Matthew Robinson Boulton Matthew Robinson Boulton (8 August 1770 – 16 May 1842) was an English manufacturer, a pioneer of management, the son of Matthew Boulton and the father of Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, who first patented the aileron. He was responsible with James Watt Jr. for the management of the Soho Foundry. Matthew Robinson Boulton was mainly involved in the initial planning of the
Matthew Piers Watt Boulton Matthew Piers Watt Boulton Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (22 September 1820 – 30 June 1894), also published under the pseudonym M. P. W. Bolton, was a British classicist, elected member of the UK's Metaphysical Society, an amateur scientist and an inventor, best known for his invention of the aileron, a primary aeronautical flight control device. He patented the aileron in 1868, some 36 years before it was first employed in manned flight by Robert Esnault-Pelterie in 1904. Boulton was the son of Matthew Robinson Boulton, and as well the grandson of Matthew Boulton, who founded the Soho Manufactory and the