Whitworth developed great skill as a mechanic while working for Maudslay, developing various precision machine tools and also introducing a box casting scheme for the iron frames of machine tools that simultaneously increased their rigidity and reduced their weight.

Maudslay also developed the first industrially practical screw-cutting lathe in 1800, allowing standardisation of screw thread sizes for the first time.

Maudslay also recruited a promising young Admiralty draughtsman, Joshua Field, who proved to be so talented that Maudslay took him into partnership.

The shield was built by Maudslay, Sons & Field, of Lambeth, London, who also built the steam pumps for de-watering the tunnel.

In 1924 Maudslay of Coventry also introduced a swept-down chassis frame on a comprehensive range of purpose-built passenger models called the ML series, although no double-deckers were catalogued until 1930.

They also produced Wasp and Dragonfly radial aircraft engines, Tylor truck engines and Maudslay gearboxes as well as being the country's largest maker of depth charge fuzes .. For their efforts during the war Guy received a commendation from William Weir, Secretary of State for Air.

His efforts were augmented by those of Marc Isambard Brunel, who designed most of the machines, and Henry Maudslay, the mechanic who built the machines and became a prominent machine tool builder.

It is likely that Maudslay was not aware of Vaucanson's work, since his first versions of the slide rest had many errors that were not present in the Vaucanson 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.

Maudslay standardized the screw threads used in his workshop and produced sets of taps and dies that would make nuts and bolts consistently to those standards, so that any bolt of the appropriate size would fit any nut of the same size.

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.

The story has long circulated that Henry Maudslay invented it, but he did not ( and never claimed so ).

The culture of toolroom accuracy and precision, which started with interchangeability pioneers including Gribeauval, Tousard, North, Hall, Whitney, and Colt, and continued through leaders such as Maudslay, Palmer, Whitworth, Brown, Sharpe, Pratt, Whitney, Leland, and others, grew during the Machine Age to become an important part of combining applied science with technology.

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

He was in close contact with many of the important engineers of the time, including Richard Trevithick, Matthew Murray, Henry Maudslay, Sir Marc Isambard Bruneland, particularly, Joshua Field.

The first historically important intra-company standardization of screw threads began with Henry Maudslay around 1800, when the modern screw-cutting lathe made interchangeable V-thread machine screws a practical commodity.

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.

The lessons Maudslay learned about the need for stability and precision he adapted to the development of machine tools, and in his workshops he trained a generation of men to build on his work, such as Richard Roberts, Joseph Clement and Joseph Whitworth.

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.

Maudslay made working models of the machine for making pulley blocks, and Brunel approached Samuel Bentham, the Inspector General of Naval Works.

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.

Maudslay acquired such a good reputation for his skill that Joseph Bramah ( the inventor of the hydraulic press ) called for his services.

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.

But Maudslay, who had made a major contribution to its success, received little credit for it.

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.

In 1797, after having worked for Bramah for eight years, Maudslay asked for an increase in his wage of only 30s a week.

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.

At 1800 on 15 May, at a meeting in Whitworth's house, Gibson and Wallis briefed four key officers: the squadron's two flight commanders, Squadron Leader Henry Maudslay and Sqn Ldr H. M. " Dinghy " Young ; Gibson's deputy for the Möhne attack, Fl. Lt.

Maudslay ( Z for Zebra ) then attempted a run but the bomb struck the top of the dam and the aircraft was severely damaged in the blast.

The tunnel would not have been possible without the innovative tunneling shield designed by Marc Brunel and built by Maudslay Sons & Field at their Lambeth works.

* 1873 – Algernon Maudslay, British sailor ( d. 1948 )

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.

* Henry Maudslay, engineer and tool-maker, was born in Salutation Alley ( now demolished ) and buried in the parish churchyard of St Mary Magdalen's.

Newburyport Forest is located in the southwest corner of the city, and Maudslay State Park lies along the northwest part of the city, along the banks of the Merrimack.

Henry Maudslay: Founder of precision engineering and first production line.

Nasmyth therefore decided instead to show Maudslay examples of his skills and produced a complete working model of a high-pressure steam engine, creating the working drawings and constructing the components himself.

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.

It was Maudslay who built the lock that was displayed in Bramah ’ s shop window with a notice offering a reward of 200 guineas to anyone who could pick it.

Maudslay designed and made a set of special tools and machines that allowed the lock to be made at an economic price.

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.