Matthew Piers Watt Boulton was a British classicist, amateur scientist and inventor, born in 1820, 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 used in manned flight by Robert Esnault-Pelterie in 1904. The son of Matthew Robinson Boulton and grandson of Matthew Boulton, who founded the Soho Manufactory, he was broadly educated in the classics, philosophy and sciences and became well versed in steam engine design and then in jet propulsion and rocket motors. He earned patents for engines, propellers and pumps, and was described as reclusive. He died in 1894.
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Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (22 September 1820-30 June 1894)
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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.
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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.
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