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Mathew Boulton Based in Birmingham, entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728 – 1809) was a poster child of the industrial revolution. He is remembered as one of the first producers of coins and medals who applied industrial techniques, developing an inherited button-making company into a firm that sold entire mints to the British and oversea governments. Other interests of his included the development of innovative steam engine designs, which his firm installed by the hundreds in Britain and elsewhere. Boulton was a member of the Lunar society, a group of enlightened entrepreneurs in Birmingham who fostered studies in the art, sciences, and theology that also included Josiah Wedgwood and other abolitionists.