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About Matthew Piers Watt Boulton
Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, 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.
Everything about Matthew Piers Watt Boulton →- Occupation
- military flight engineer, mathematician, engineer, philosopher
- Position held
- High Sheriff of Oxfordshire
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- September 22, 1820
- Died
- June 30, 1894