... methinks Public gratitude should erect a Column to the memory of the First engineer, Artist and manufacturer that ever existed whose Ingenuity and Perseverance enriched his country beyond the powers of calculation; and the place should be called Boultonia or Boulton's-Town.
J.H. Reddell, 1800.
Matthew Boulton słynne cytaty
Had Mr B. done nothing more in the world than what he has done in improving the coinage, his fame would have deserved to be immortalized.
James Watt, 1809, po śmierci Boultona.
„Widzę tu, Sir, to, czego cały świat pożąda – MOC!”
I see here, Sir, what all world desires to have – POWER!
Do Jamesa Boswella, 1776.
Of all interesting things to be seen at Soho... Mr Boulton himself is the most interesting. We passed an evening listening to him, & we wished he had never ceased to speak; we could have heard him constantly without another wish; he is an inexhaustible mine of precious knowledge, & of every thing that is amiable; he treated us with the utmost Kindness & made us travel through the Country of Wonders.
Fanny Deluc, 1800.
I am very desirous of becoming a great silversmith, yet I am determined never to take up that branch in the Large Way I intended unless powers can be obtained to have a Marking Hall at Birmingham.
Do Lorda Shelbourne, 1771.
... it would not be worth my while to make [Watt's engine] for three counties only; but I find it well worth my while to make it for all the world.
Do Jamesa Watta, 1769.
Last week we had Prince Poniatowski, nephew of the King of Poland, and the French, Danish, Sardinian and Dutch ambassadors; this week we have had Count Orloff and the five celebrated brothers who are such favourites with the Empress of Russia; and only yesterday I had the Viceroy of Ireland who dined with me. Scarcely a day passes without a visit from some distingushed personage.
O gościach w Soho Manufactory, 1767.
Matthew Boulton: Cytaty po angielsku
“I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have—power.”
Speaking to Boswell of his engineering works, in James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’