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    James Hall Nasmyth (sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth) (19 August 1808 – 7 May 1890) was a Scottish engineer, philosopher, artist and inventor...
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    Alexander Nasmyth (9 September 1758 – 10 April 1840) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter, a pupil of Allan Ramsay. He also undertook several...
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    later James Nasmyth and Company (1850–1857), Patricroft Ironworks (1857–1867), Nasmyth, Wilson and Company (1867–1940) Naismith (Nasmith, Nasmyth, Naysmith)...
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    Nasmyth telescope, also called Nasmyth–Cassegrain or Cassegrain–Nasmyth, is a reflecting telescope developed by the Scottish inventor James Nasmyth....
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    Nasmyth is a lunar impact crater located near the southwestern limb of the Moon. It is attached to the southeast rim of the flooded crater Wargentin,...
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    dissolved in 1940. The company was founded in 1836 by James Nasmyth and Holbrook Gaskell. Nasmyth had previously been employed in Henry Maudslay's workshop...
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    Bourdon of France and James Nasmyth of Britain over who had invented the machine. Bourdon had built the first working machine, but Nasmyth claimed it was built...
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    River in London about 1809, was attested to by James Nasmyth who was employed by Maudslay in 1829 and Nasmyth documented their use in his autobiography. The...
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    roller bearing. Self-aligning spherical bearings were first used by James Nasmyth around 1840 to support line shaft bearings in mills and machine shops...
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    on her way out of Duluth, loaded with iron ore and towing the barge James Nasmyth. She was hit by the storm, and though she struggled on for a short time...
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  • Sir James Nasmyth, 1st Baronet (1656 - 1720), also known as James Naesmith, was a successful Scottish lawyer. He was the son of John Nasmyth and his wife...
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    also simply because no one was taking down records for posterity). James Nasmyth built a milling machine very advanced for its time between 1829 and...
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    Emirates Woman. 14 April 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2021. Nasmyth, J. (1885, reprinted 2010). James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography. BoD – Books on Demand...
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  • Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine. June – James Nasmyth patents his design of steam hammer in England and introduces an improved...
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  • to use James Dredge's patent 'taper principle' of stays. Edward Sang publishes a logarithmic method for constructing a skew arch. James Nasmyth invents...
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  • Barbara Nasmyth (15 April 1790 – 11 February 1870) was a Scottish oil and watercolour painter and educator. Barbara Nasmyth was the daughter of the artist...
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    technology. Maudslay did not invent the slide-rest (as others such as James Nasmyth have claimed), and may not have been the first to combine a lead screw...
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    prominent inventors—James Nasmyth (son of Alexander Nasmyth), who invented a steam-powered pile driver in 1845, watchmaker James Valoué, Count Giovan...
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    engines and condensers, but not built until 1840 by British inventor James Nasmyth. By the late 19th century, steam hammers had increased greatly in size;...
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    hammer replaced the trip hammer (at least for the largest forgings). James Nasmyth invented it in 1839 and patented in 1842. However, by then forging had...
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    developed a shaper between 1791 and 1793. However, Roe (1916) credits James Nasmyth with the invention of the shaper in 1836. Shapers were very common in...
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  • Sir James Nasmyth, 2nd Baronet (c. 1704 – 4 February 1779), also known as Naesmyth, of Dawyck and Posso, Peebleshire, was a Scottish botanist and politician...
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    self-aligning spherical plain bearing which was invented by Scottish engineer James Nasmyth around 1840. The historical development of the bearing’s design is a...
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    could be operated by boys and unskilled laborers were developed by James Nasmyth in the 1840s. Machine tools were automated with Numerical control (NC)...
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    June 18 – A primary school system is established in Sweden. June – James Nasmyth patents the steam hammer in the United Kingdom. July 8 – A total solar...
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    impractical for commercial use. Attracted to astronomy by the influence of James Nasmyth, he constructed in 1850 a 13-inch reflecting telescope, mounted first...
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    shows her flying a red saltire, presumably a lithographer's mistake. James Nasmyth in his autobiography published in 1883 stated erroneously that she was...
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    pp. 58–59. Dumpleton & Miller 2002, pp. 26–32. Nasmyth, James (1897). Smiles, Samuel (ed.). James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Archived at Project...
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  • angle, gauge–boring lathe for cannon-making, early telescopic sight James Nasmyth (1808–1890), Scotland – steam hammer Giulio Natta (1903–1979), together...
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  • sodium dichromate as a method of permanent photography. November 24 – James Nasmyth makes his first sketch of a steam hammer design. Michael Faraday publishes...
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