Matthew Piers Watt Boulton [SEP] date of death
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
engraving of the Soho Manufactory.
The Boulton family lived in Birmingham, England, but his son Matthew Piers Watt Boulton likely moved to Oxfordshire after selling his grandfather's estate in 1850.
Family connection to aviation works.
Boulton's son, Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, was named after his grandfather, Matthew Boulton, as well as his grandfather's close associate, James Watt and his great-grandmother's family, the Piers. Boulton and Watt had perfected the steam engine during the 1770s which soon set off the