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James Nasmyth: Autobiography

ENGINEER and INVENTOR

  • Edited by SAMUEL SMILES, LL.D.
  • This HTML version produced by
    Eric Hutton copyright 1995

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  • Cover photo (c) 2001 Jock Dempsey

     

  • Preface
  • List of Illustrations
  • Chapter 1 My Ancestry
  • Chapter 2 Alexander Nasmyth
  • Chapter 3 An Artist's Family
  • Chapter 4 My Early Years
  • Chapter 5 My School-days
  • Chapter 6 Mechanical Beginnings
  • Chapter 7 Henry Maudslay, London
  • Chapter 8 Maudslay's Private Assistant
  • Chapter 9 Holiday in the Manufacturing Districts
  • Chapter 10 Begin Business at Manchester
  • Chapter 11 Bridgewater Foundry - Partnership
  • Chapter 12 Free Trade in Ability - The Strike - Death of my Father
  • Chapter 13 My Marriage - The Steam Hammer
  • Chapter 14 Travels in France and Italy
  • Chapter 15 Steam Hammer Pile-driver
  • Chapter 16 Nuremberg -- St. Petersburg -- Dannemora.
  • Chapter 17 More about Bridgewater Foundry - Woolwich Arsenal
  • Chapter 18 Astronomical pursuits
  • Chapter 19 More about Astronomy
  • Chapter 20 Retirement from Business
  • Chapter 21 Active leisure
  • List of Inventions and Contrivances
  • Articles on the Sun-Ray origin of the Pyramids and Cuneiform Character
  • His Autograph and Thumb Mark
  • Index

     

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