* June – James Nasmyth patents the steam hammer in the United Kingdom.

James Nasmyth had been working on a similar idea for some time prior to this.

He then moved to London where he found employment working for Henry Maudslay, the inventor of the screw-cutting lathe, alongside such people as James Nasmyth ( inventor of the steam hammer ) and Richard Roberts.

* James Nasmyth ( 1808-1890 ), inventor of the steam hammer.

James Hall Nasmyth ( sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth ) ( 19 August 1808 – 7 May 1890 ) was a Scottish engineer and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer.

His father Alexander Nasmyth was a landscape and portrait painter in Edinburgh, where James was born.

James Nasmyth circa 1844 by Hill & Adamson.

By 1856 a total of 490 hammers had been produced which were sold across Europe to Russia, India and even Australia, and accounted for 40 % of James Nasmyth and Company's revenues.

The milling machine built by James Nasmyth between 1829 and 1831, with indexing fixture.

In memory of his renowned contribution to the discipline of mechanical engineering, the Department of Mechanical Engineering building at Heriot-Watt University, in his birthplace of Edinburgh, is called the James Nasmyth Building.

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A misunderstanding persisted for many years that James Nasmyth had claimed that Maudslay was the original inventor of the slide rest.

Many outstanding engineers trained in his workshop, including Richard Roberts, David Napier, Joseph Clement, Sir Joseph Whitworth, James Nasmyth ( inventor of the steam hammer ), Joshua Field and William Muir.

Others, such as Henry Maudslay, James Nasmyth, and Joseph Whitworth, soon followed the path of expanding their entrepreneurship from manufactured end products and millwright work into the realm of building machine tools for sale.

Nasmyth also taught painting outside his own family and " instilled a whole generation with the importance of drawing as a tool of empirical investigation "; it was probably from him that John James Ruskin ( father of John Ruskin ) learned to paint as a schoolboy in Edinburgh in the later 1790s.

His youngest son, James Nasmyth, was the well-known inventor of the steam hammer ; and his daughter Elizabeth married the actor Daniel Terry, then as a widow Charles Richardson.

** For an account of the Nasmyth family see James Nasmyth ’ s Autobiography ( 1883 ) online version

Roe ( 1916 ) credits James Nasmyth with the invention of the shaper in 1836.

* 1775: James Watt invents a new efficient steam engine accelerating the industrial revolution in England.

* James Naismith invents basketball.

* 1764 – James Hargreaves or Thomas Highs invents the spinning jenny ( patented 1770 ).

* 1882 – James Atkinson invents the Atkinson cycle engine, now common in some hybrid vehicles.

* 1782 — James Six invents the Maximum minimum thermometer

* 1892 – James Dewar invents the vacuum-insulated, silver-plated glass Dewar flask

* 1876: James Starley of Coventry invents chain-drive differential for use on bicycles ; invention later used on automobiles by Karl Benz.

* James Naismith of Springfield, Massachusetts invents basketball

The term marketing mix was coined in an article written by Neil Borden called “ The Concept of the Marketing Mix .” He started teaching the term after he learned about it from an associate, James Culliton, who in 1948 described the role of the marketing manager as a " mixer of ingredients "; one who sometimes follows recipes prepared by others, sometimes prepares his own recipe as he goes along, sometimes adapts a recipe from immediately available ingredients, and at other times invents new ingredients no one else has tried.

The Truth Machine ( 1996 ) is a science fiction novel by James L. Halperin about a genius who invents an infallible lie detector.

1779: James Watt patents a copying press or ' letter copying machine ' to deal with the mass of paper work at his business ; he also invents an ink to work with it.

In the 19th century, Thomas Johann Seebeck invents the thermocouple, Joseph Aspin invents Portland cement, Hans Christian Ørsted produces metallic aluminium, Charles Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber, Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot invent silver-based photographic processes, James Clerk Maxwell demonstrates color photography, and Charles Fritts makes the first solar cells using selenium waffles.

Edwin R. Fellows ( May 29, 1865 – May 21, 1945 ) was an American inventor and entrepreneur from Torrington, Connecticut who designed and built a new type of gear shaper in 1896 and, with the mentoring of James Hartness, left the Jones & Lamson Machine Company to co-found the Fellows Gear Shaper Company in Springfield, Vermont, which became one of the leading firms in the gear-cutting segment of the machine tool industry.

The Reverend James Doran had scarcely completed Pat Conyers' last rites on Boot Hill in the township of Petrie, when shots were heard in the distance.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

During the greater part of Jefferson's career he enjoyed the close collaboration of a fellow Virginian, James Madison, eight years his junior.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

Taking a personal interest, she had the doctor assigned to the White House, Dr. James Coupal, look Emmett over.

Lieutenant Colonel James P. Brownlow, who commanded the First Brigade of Thomas' First Cavalry Division, was ordered across one of these fords.

Finally he learned through the grapevine that the culprit might be one James W. Robinson in Pope County.

and James Russell Lowell and Edgar Allan Poe of nineteenth century American letters.

The day passed without incident in spite of the warning of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri: `` Baker, you will have the streets of our American cities running with blood on registration day ''.

He wrote eloquently to William James that impartial history was not only impossible but undesirable.

'' At other points in his narrative, Krim associates Jewishness with unappeasable literary ambition, with abstraction, with his personal turning aside from the good, the true, and the beautiful of fiction in the manner of James T. Farrell to the international, the false, and the inflated.

James P. Mitchell, when he was the head of the department, promised to eat his hat if unemployment didn't drop below three million a couple of years ago.

Dr. James B. Conant has earned a nationwide reputation as a moderate and unemotional school reformer.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.

This resulted in revisions of the King James Bible in 1881-85 as the English Revised Version and in 1901 as the American Standard Version.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

If this new Bible does not increase in significance by repeated readings throughout the years, it will not survive the ages as has the King James Version.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

But State Party Chairman James Gray of Albany said no, and he didn't mince any words.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.

It was Pullen James, the campmate of Simms Purdew.