James Nasmyth
✓ Source-basedfallingScottish mechanical engineer and inventor (1808-1890)
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James Hall Nasmyth 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.
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47 York Place, Edinburgh, Plaque commemorating James Nasmyth's birth
James Nasmyth circa 1844 by Hill & Adamson.
James Nasmyth's patent steam hammer as illustrated in Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, 1854
The milling machine built by James Nasmyth between 1829 and 1831, with indexing fixture.
Drawing of a crater on the surface of the Moon by Nasmyth
The grave of James Nasmyth and family, Dean CemeteryIn their orbit 8
Scientists born in the 1800s 6
About this person
James Hall Nasmyth 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.
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1808 to 1890 · aged 81
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