He had erected about twenty engines without Boulton's and Watts ' knowledge.

Venues included Erasmus Darwin's home in Lichfield, Matthew Boulton's home, Soho House, and Great Barr Hall.

Matthew Boulton and Erasmus Darwin met some time between 1757 and 1758, possibly through family connections, as Boulton's mother's family were patients of Darwin ; or possibly though shared friendships, as both were admirers of the printer John Baskerville and friends of the astronomer and geologist John Michell, a regular visitor to Darwin's house in Lichfield.

Despite their different backgrounds they shared a common interest in experiment and invention, and their activities would show Darwin's theoretical understanding and Boulton's practical experience to be complementary.

Around the same time the Derby-based clockmaker John Whitehurst became a friend, first of Boulton and subsequently of Darwin, through his business supplying clock movements to Boulton's ormolu manufacturing operation.

The first of these was Josiah Wedgwood, who became a close friend of Darwin in 1765 while campaigning for the building of the Trent and Mersey Canal and subsequently closely modelled his large new pottery factory at Etruria on Boulton's Soho Manufactory.

In the same year James Watt visited Birmingham on the recommendation of his business patron John Roebuck, being shown around the Soho Manufactory by Small and Darwin in Boulton's absence.

* Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory opens.

Although after 1786 there is no further mention of Murdoch's work on Steam Carriages in Watt's or Boulton's correspondence, a volume of evidence exists that he continued to work on it without his employers ' support, and some argue that a full size version was built.

The creation of the league was the result of the New York Mets ' objection to Frank Boulton's proposal to move the former Albany-Colonie Yankees because of its territorial rights to the region.

Many historians regard Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory ( established in 1761 in Birmingham ) as the first modern factory.

In order of historical emergence, they have been firearms ( small arms and artillery ); clocks ; textile machinery ; steam engines ( stationary, marine, rail, and otherwise ; the story of how Watt's need for an accurate cylinder spurred Boulton's boring machine is discussed by Roe ( 1916 )); sewing machines ; bicycles ; automobiles ; and aircraft.

He was commissioned to create the monument to Matthew Boulton ( died 1809 ), by Boulton's son, which is on the north wall of the sanctuary of St. Mary's Church, Handsworth, Birmingham, where Boulton is buried.

However, the prisoner Thomas Scott, an Orangeman, interpreted Boulton's pardon as weakness on the part of the Métis, whom he regarded with open contempt.

:" I have done three good things since I have commenced ; I have spared Boulton's life at your instance, I pardoned Gaddy, and now I shall shoot Scott.

Boulton's father, also named Matthew and born in 1700, moved to Birmingham from Lichfield to serve an apprenticeship, and in 1723 he married Christiana Piers.

Soho House, Matthew Boulton's home ( from 1766 until he died in 1809 ) in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, is now a museum ( opened in 1995 ), celebrating his life, his partnership with James Watt and his membership of the Lunar Society of Birmingham.

In the years between Boulton's leaving and the house becoming a museum, it had several uses, more recently as a residential hostel for police officers.

Keir had become friends with Matthew Boulton, and in the autumn of 1768 he first met James Watt at Boulton's house.

Small was Boulton's doctor and became a close friend of Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, James Keir, James Watt, Anna Seward and others connected with the Lunar Society.

* Opening of Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory.

Mylne, together with the manufacturer Matthew Boulton, arranged for a secret deposit of commemorative medals, of Boulton's making, to be placed inside the sarcophagus prior to Nelson's interment.

Boulton's mint in Soho produced prodigious quantities of patterns, which were supplemented by Taylor some fifty or so years later from the same dies.

NHL vice-president Colin Campbell said, " It is clear Mr. Boulton's actions were careless and caused injury.

Boulton's Mounted Infantry was mobilized for active service on 10 April 1885, and served with Middleton's Column of the North West Field Force until it was disbanded on 18 September 1885.

The cottage was later demolished and Boulton's home ( Soho House ) was built on the site, also by the Wyatts.

Birmingham Assay Office was fought for by Boulton and it changed the fortunes of silver making in the town and can still be visited today. One impediment to Boulton's work is the lack of an assay office in Birmingham.

Fothergill was the manufacturer Matthew Boulton's business partner between 1762 and 1782.

The lawyer Wilson had studied under, James Boulton, left Perth after locals began claiming that he had goaded his understudy to push Lyon into the duel, since he was the understudy of Boulton's rival Thomas Radenhurst.

The Brazilian Franchise Law ( Law No. 8955 of December 15, 1994 ) defines the franchise as a system in which the franchisor licenses the franchisee, for a payment, the right to use a trademark / patent along with the right to distribute products or services on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis.

In 1958, Bell Labs filed a patent application for their proposed optical maser ; and Schawlow and Townes submitted a manuscript of their theoretical calculations to the Physical Review, published that year in Volume 112, Issue No. 6.

* On December 4, 1970, the twisted nematic field effect in liquid crystals was filed for patent by Hoffmann-LaRoche in Switzerland, ( Swiss patent No. 532 261 ) with Wolfgang Helfrich and Martin Schadt ( then working for the Central Research Laboratories ) listed as inventors.

Following the 2008 appeal by ATI over the validity of (' 327 ) and Silicon Graphics Inc's voluntary dismissal of the (' 376 ) patent from the lawsuit, the Federal Circuit upheld the jury verdict on the validity of GPHI's US Patent No. 6, 650, 327, and furthermore found that AMD had lost its right to challenge patent validity in future proceedings.

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Hess received a patent ( US No. 29. 077 ) for his invention of the vacuum cleaner on July 10, 1860.

He obtained a patent ( US No. 91, 145 ) on June 8, 1869.

On November 14, 1898, John S. Thurman of St. Louis, Missouri, submitted a patent ( US No. 634, 042 ) for a " pneumatic carpet renovator ".

The invention of the instrument is credited to Sir Charles Wheatstone ; his earliest patent of a like instrument was granted 19 December 1829, No 5803 in Great Britain.

In 1987, Curtis filed a US patent application that subsequently issued as Patent No. 4, 753, 647.

The new moving-coil speaker system was installed in New York's Warners Theatre at the end of July and its patent submission, for what Western Electric called the No. 555 Receiver, was filed on August 4, just two days before the premiere of Don Juan.

In 2000, the US corporation RiceTec ( a subsidiary of RiceTec AG of Liechtenstein ) attempted to patent certain hybrids of basmati rice and semidwarf long-grain rice ( see U. S. Patent No. 5, 663, 484 ).

The company was founded on Sven Wingqvist's 1907 Swedish patent No. 25406, a multi-row self-aligning radial ball bearing.

In February 2012, two NGOs, Navdanya and No Patent on Seeds, filed documents opposing an EU patent awarded to Monsanto covering virus resistant traits of melons.

Swan first demonstrated the light bulb at a lecture in Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 December 1878, but he did not receive a patent until 27 November 1880 ( patent No. 4933 ) after improvement to the original lamp.

On January 30, 1962, the US Patent and Trademark Office issued Paul a patent, Patent No. 3, 018, 680, for an " Electrical Music Instrument.

The first patent for a toothbrush was by H. N. Wadsworth in 1857 ( US Patent No. 18, 653 ) in the United States, but mass production in the United States only started in 1885.

Ossberger's first patent was granted in 1933 (" Free Jet Turbine " 1922, Imperial Patent No. 361593 and the " Cross Flow Turbine " 1933, Imperial Patent No. 615445 ), and he manufactured this turbine as a standard product.