This article is about the Scottish engineer. For the inventor of basketball, see James Naismith. For the Scottish lawyer, see Sir James Nasmyth, 1st Baronet. For the Member of Parliament for Peeblesshire, see Sir James Nasmyth, 2nd Baronet.
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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 famous for his development of the steam hammer. He was the co-founder of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company manufacturers of machine tools. He retired at the age of 48, and moved to Penshurst, Kent where he developed his hobbies of astronomy and photography.
James Hall Nasmyth (sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth) (19 August 1808 – 7 May 1890) was a Scottish engineer, philosopher, artist and inventor...
later JamesNasmyth and Company (1850–1857), Patricroft Ironworks (1857–1867), Nasmyth, Wilson and Company (1867–1940) Naismith (Nasmith, Nasmyth, Naysmith)...
Alexander Nasmyth (9 September 1758 – 10 April 1840) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter, a pupil of Allan Ramsay. He also undertook several...
Bourdon of France and JamesNasmyth of Britain over who had invented the machine. Bourdon had built the first working machine, but Nasmyth claimed it was built...
River in London about 1809, was attested to by JamesNasmyth who was employed by Maudslay in 1829 and Nasmyth documented their use in his autobiography. The...
roller bearing. Self-aligning spherical bearings were first used by JamesNasmyth around 1840 to support line shaft bearings in mills and machine shops...
prominent inventors—JamesNasmyth (son of Alexander Nasmyth), who invented a steam-powered pile driver in 1845, watchmaker James Valoué, Count Giovan...
June 18 – A primary school system is established in Sweden. June – JamesNasmyth patents the steam hammer in the United Kingdom. July 8 – A total solar...
developed a shaper between 1791 and 1793. However, Roe (1916) credits JamesNasmyth with the invention of the shaper in 1836. Shapers were very common in...
Matthew Murray in England around 1800. Others, such as Henry Maudslay, JamesNasmyth, and Joseph Whitworth, soon followed the path of expanding their entrepreneurship...
engines and condensers, but not built until 1840 by British inventor JamesNasmyth. By the late 19th century, steam hammers had increased greatly in size;...
remain a leader in machine tools for decades afterward. A misquoting of JamesNasmyth popularized the notion that Maudslay had invented the slide rest, but...
could be operated by boys and unskilled laborers were developed by JamesNasmyth in the 1840s. Machine tools were automated with Numerical control (NC)...
self-aligning spherical plain bearing which was invented by Scottish engineer JamesNasmyth around 1840. The historical development of the bearing’s design is a...
technology. Maudslay did not invent the slide-rest (as others such as JamesNasmyth have claimed), and may not have been the first to combine a lead screw...
Scottish engineering pioneer JamesNasmyth toured the site and described it as a 'museum of technical antiquity'. Nasmyth was subsequently engaged to help...
hammer replaced the trip hammer (at least for the largest forgings). JamesNasmyth invented it in 1839 and patented in 1842. However, by then forging had...
pp. 58–59. Dumpleton & Miller 2002, pp. 26–32. Nasmyth, James (1897). Smiles, Samuel (ed.). JamesNasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Archived at Project...
used her as his private steam yacht. The eminent Scottish engineer JamesNasmyth mentions a trip aboard her to Richmond. Swift, a wooden sailing smack...
to use James Dredge's patent 'taper principle' of stays. Edward Sang publishes a logarithmic method for constructing a skew arch. JamesNasmyth invents...
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