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Marc Isambard Brunel ( father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel ), with the help of Henry Maudslay and others, designed 22 types of machine tools to make the parts for the blocks used by the Royal Navy.
Henry Maudslay, who trained a school of machine tool makers early in the 19th century, was employed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, as a young man where he would have seen the large horse-driven wooden machines for cannon boring made and worked by the Verbruggans.
Henry Maudslay built a bench micrometer in the early 19th century that was jocularly nicknamed " the Lord Chancellor " among his staff because it was the final judge on measurement accuracy and precision in the firm's work.
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.
During the summer of 1799 Brunel was introduced to Henry Maudslay, a talented machine tool maker who had been a manager for Joseph Bramah, and had recently started his own business.
* Henry Maudslay, engineer and tool-maker, was born in Salutation Alley ( now demolished ) and buried in the parish churchyard of St Mary Magdalen's.
During the 1790s Henry Maudslay created the first screw-cutting lathe, a watershed event that signaled the start of blacksmiths being replaced by machinists in factories for the hardware needs of the populace.
Henry Maudslay: Founder of precision engineering and first production line.
Henry Maudslay played his part in the development of mechanical engineering when it was in its infancy, but he was especially pioneering in the development of machine tools to be used in engineering workshops across the world.
* Maudslay Motor Company, founded by Walter H. Maudslay, great grandson of Henry Maudslay.
* John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson, eds., Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age, 2002, Tempus Publishing, Ltd, pb., ( ISBN 0-7524-2766-0 ) This is a collection of essays by various specialists, and comprises biographies of Maudslay, Roberts, Napier, Clement, Whitworth, Nasmyth and Muir, as well as an account of the London Engineering Scene at the time of Maudslay, and an account of the firm from the death of Maudslay in 1831 until its demise in 1904.
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* Richard Thorp as Squadron Leader Henry Maudslay DFC RAF, pilot of " Zebra "

Henry and pronunciation
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), by Henry Watson Fowler ( 1858 1933 ), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing.
" I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am " ( also " I'm Henery the VIII, I Am " or " I'm Henry VIII, I Am "; spelled " Henery " owing to the Cockney pronunciation normally used to sing it ) is a 1910 British music hall song by Fred Murray and R. P. Weston.
After numerous controversies on morning talk show Breakfast ( TVNZ ) which he hosted between 2004 and 2010, Henry was involved in a high profile scandal in October 2010 involving his pronunciation and ridicule of the name of Indian politician Sheila Dikshit.

Henry and spelling
The current spelling is recorded at least as far back as 1496, in a letter from Henry VII.
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The lake nearby was discovered and named Dambeling Lake by explorers Henry Landor and Henry Maxwell Lefroy in 1843, and the current spelling was used by surveyors in the 1860s and 1870s.
The game was played and gambled over by King Henry VIII of England, who prohibited commoners from playing ; evidently he did not always win, as the record of royal expenses for 1532 show a payment from the Privy Purse of GB £ 9, ' Paied to my lord Wylliam for that he wanne of the kinges grace at shovillaborde ' ( contemporary spelling: ' Paid to Lord William, for he won, by the king's grace, at shovelboard ').
* Henry Miller mentions Dreamland in his novel, Tropic of Capricorn: I was walking again in Dreamland and a man was walking above me on a tightrope and above him a man was sitting in an airplane spelling letters of smoke in the sky.
I thought fitt to leave this Memorandum to Posterity & refer them to Lhuyds Dictionary in ye oldest Court Roll I have which was ye 16 year of King Henry ye Sixth I find it entered Appuldurcombe as above & likewise in some of ye old ones since but they often varyed in ye spelling of it not knowing from whence it was derived.
In adulthood, after the death of his father, he became known as Colonel Henry Huddleston Rogers, apparently returning to an earlier spelling of his middle name.
The Chichele Professorships are statutory professorships at the University of Oxford named in honour of Henry Chichele ( also spelt Chicheley or Checheley, although the spelling of the academic position is consistently " Chichele "), an Archbishop of Canterbury and founder of All Souls College, Oxford.
This time Murger signed his name " Henry Murger ", spelling his first name with a " y " in imitation of the English name, an affectation he continued for the rest of his career.
He was born William Henry Handy Plumer, the last of six children in Addison, Maine, to a family that had settled in Maine in 1764, when it was still a part of the Massachusetts Bay colony ( he changed the spelling of his surname after moving West ).
They had a son named Henry E. Pierce in 1830 ( changing the spelling the last name ), whom he took to the mainland for his education.
* Henry Proctor, alternative spelling for British Major-General Henry Procter ( British Army officer ) ( c. 1763 1822 ) who invaded the Michigan Territory during the War of 1812
Pol-de-Leon ' in 1907 and is probably connected with Henry Jenner who ( with W C Borlase ) opposed alleged ' Englishness ' and stamp consistent spelling of Cornish place names on OS maps.
The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William de Underwode which was dated 1188, in the " Records of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk ", during the reign of King Henry II, known as " The Builder of Churches ", 1154-1189.
The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Henry Bouryng, which was dated 1302, in the " Pipe Rolls of Derbyshire ", during the reign of King Edward 1, known as " The Hammer of the Scots ", 1272-1307.

Henry and 22
Instead, on 22 May, Elizabeth was moved from the Tower to Woodstock, where she was to spend almost a year under house arrest in the charge of Sir Henry Bedingfield.
He defeated and killed Richard in battle at Bosworth Field on 22 August of that year and became king as Henry VII.
Whale also directed this version, which premiered at Henry Miller's Theatre on 22 March 1929.
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On 22 August 1485, Richard met the outnumbered forces of Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
* April 22 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( born 1836 )
* April 22 Henry Lerolle, French painter ( b. 1848 )
* November 22 Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English peer and traitor ( d. 1619 )
* October 22 Henry Armstrong, American boxer ( b. 1912 )
* May 22 Derrick Henry Lehmer, American mathematician ( b. 1905 )
* April 22 Henry Fielding, British novelist and dramatist ( d. 1754 )
* November 22 Henry Wilson, 18th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1812 )
* April 22 Henry Royce, English car manufacturer ( b. 1863 )
* June 22 Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British field marshal Henry Hughes Wilson in Belgravia ; the assassins are sentenced to death July 18.
* March 22 Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England ( killed in battle ) ( born 1388 )
* June 22 Execution of John Fisher, Cardinal and Bishop of Rochester, by order of King Henry VIII of England.
* August 22 Eighty Years ' War A Dutch army led by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, captures the city of Maastricht after a two-month siege.
* June 22 The English explorer and sea captain Henry Hudson, his teenage son John, and six crewmen are set adrift in or near Hudson Bay after a mutiny on his ship Discovery.
* June 22 Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister ( b. 1662 )
* October 22 Henry Luttrell ( Colonel ), British colonel ( shot and mortally wounded in his sedan chair in Dublin )
* January 22 Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge ( d. 1769 )
* April 22 Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France ( d. 1610 )
* September 22 Anne of Cleves, Fourth Queen of Henry VIII of England ( d. 1557 )
* August 22 Thérouanne is captured by Henry VIII of England.

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