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.

Maudslay designed a tool holder into which the cutting tool would be clamped, and which would slide on accurately planed surfaces to allow the cutting tool to move in either direction.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

During the First World War, they made motorcycles, lorries to Maudslay designs, and, not having a suitable one of their own, cars to a Sunbeam design.

This engine was replaced in 1807 in the same house by another, more powerful, table engine made by Fenton, Murray and Wood of Leeds and, in turn, in 1830 by a Maudslay beam engine.

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.

This refusal determined Maudslay to set up business on his own account.

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.

In 1817 he left Maudslay and Field to set up his own firm, encouraged by the Duke of Northumberland, a frequent visitor to Maudslay's works.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In 1823 a Maudslay engine powered the Lightning, the first steam-powered vessel to be commissioned by the Royal Navy.

The clock mainspring gave way to the pendulum clock, but the latter could not be used by mariners, thus the need for precision machining by way of Huntsman ’ s improved steel ( 1797 ) and Maudslay ’ s use ( 1800 ) of Ramsden ’ s idea of using a screw to better measure ( which he took from the turner ’ s trade ).

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

Mass production using interchangeable parts was first achieved in 1803 by Marc Isambard Brunel in cooperation with Henry Maudslay, and Simon Goodrich, under the management of ( with contributions by ) Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham, the Inspector General of Naval Works at Portsmouth Block Mills at Portsmouth Dockyard, for the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War.

Reginald Maudslay left the company two years after this honour and died soon afterwards on 14 December 1934 at the age of 64.

* Maudslay table engine at the Science Museum, London

Mass production using interchangeable parts was first achieved in 1803 by Marc Isambard Brunel in cooperation with Henry Maudslay and Simon Goodrich, under the management of ( and with contributions by ) Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham, the Inspector General of Naval Works at Portsmouth Block Mills, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire, England.

Following Bramah's death, Clement took up a position as chief draughtsman at Maudslay, Sons and Field, in Lambeth, where he played a role in the design of the firm's early marine steam engines.

Alfred Percival Maudslay, interior of southern chamber, Casa de Monjas at Chichen Itza, 1889

While working at Bramah's shop, Henry Maudslay suggested a cup leather packing.

* Expeditions led by Alfred Maudslay and Désiré Charnay independently arrive at Maya site of Yaxchilan.

* 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.