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.

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.

In May 1829 Nasmyth visited Maudslay in London, and after showing him his work was engaged as an assistant workman at 10 shillings a week.

Unfortunately, Maudslay died two years later, whereupon Nasmyth was taken on by Maudslay's partner as a draughtsman.

Henry Maudslay ( pronunciation and spelling ) ( 22 August 1771 – 14 February 1831 ) was a British machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor.

Having sent for Maudslay on the recommendation of one of his employees, Bramah was surprised to discover that he was only eighteen, but Maudslay demonstrated his ability and started work at Bramah ’ s workshop in Denmark Street, St Giles.

Maudslay came up with the idea of a leather cup washer, which gave a perfect seal but offered no resistance to movement when the pressure was released.

At the time when Maudslay began working for Bramah, the typical lathe was worked by a treadle and the workman held the cutting tool against the work.

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

By the mid-20th century informed historians understood that Maudslay was not the first person ever to build a slide rest, or to use one on a lathe.

A bust of Maudslay. Maudslay had shown himself to be so talented that after one year the nineteen year old was made manager of Bramah ’ s workshop.

Although Maudslay was not the first person to invent a slide-rest ( as many writers have claimed ), and may not have been the first inventor to combine a lead screw, slide-rest, and set of change gears all on one lathe ( Jesse Ramsden may have done that in 1775 ; evidence is scant ), he is certainly the person who introduced to the rest of the world the winning three-part combination of lead screw, slide rest, and change gears, sparking a great advance in machine tools and in the engineering use of screw threads.

By 1810 Maudslay was employing eighty workers and running out of room at his workshop, so he moved to larger premises in Westminster Road, Lambeth.

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 ’ s company was one of the most important British engineering manufactories of the nineteenth century, finally closing in 1904.

He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.

Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.

He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

`` You know who the other man was ''??

Present at the scene -- in addition to the dead man, who was indeed Louis Thor -- had been Thor's partner Bill Blake, and Antony Rose, an advertising agency executive who handled the zing account.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.

He was then a slightly built young man of pleasing appearance, medium stature, and handsome face.

This was one of the Irish women who had built their own huts down near the river.

It was built by the Pasterns, and stands on the acre of ground that adjoins our property.

Actually an underground cistern, its roof supported by rows and rows of pillars, it was built by Justinian in the Sixth Century to supply the palace with water.

A month later the General Court served notice to the town of Newbury that the bridge was to be built.

The Essex Merrimack Bridge when first built was not covered.

This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Completed and opened for traffic in 1852, the bridge was designed and built by Lemuel Chenoweth and his brother, Eli, of Beverly.

No house was ever built that could not have been built better for less if the work had been better planned and the work better scheduled.

As I was playing Mother Cabrini, the picture was actually `` all mine '', with nearly every scene built around me.

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.