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The Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company's Bridgewater Foundry, which began operation in 1836, was one of the earliest factories to use modern materials handling such as cranes and rail tracks through the buildings for handling heavy items.
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He was the co-founder of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company manufacturers of machine tools.
He moved to Patricroft, an area of the town of Eccles, Lancashire, where in August 1836, he and his business partner Holbrook Gaskell opened the Bridgewater Foundry, where they traded as Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company.
Up to 1843, Nasmyth, Gaskell & Co. concentrated on producing a wide range of machine tools in large numbers.
* Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company also called the Bridgewater Foundry
Initially locomotives were purchased from a wide range of private manufacturers such as Edward Bury and Company and Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company.
* Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company ( 1836 – 1850 ), later James Nasmyth and Company ( 1850 – 1857 ), Patricroft Ironworks ( 1857 – 1867 ), Nasmyth, Wilson and Company ( 1867 – 1940 ).
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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.
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Nasmyth subsequently applied the principle of his steam hammer to a pile-driving machine which he invented in 1843.
Apart from the steam hammer Nasmyth created several other important machine tools, including the shaper, an adaptation of the planer which is still used in tool and die making.
Instruments can be mounted at a Cassegrain focus below the primary mirror, in enclosures on either of two Nasmyth focal points on the sides of the telescope mount, to which light can be directed with a tertiary mirror, or, in an arrangement rare on large telescopes, at the prime focus, in lieu of a secondary mirror, to provide a wide field of view suited to deep wide-field surveys.
Political feeling at that time ran high in Edinburgh, and Nasmyth ’ s pronounced Liberal opinions, which he was too outspoken and sincere to disguise, gave offence to many of his aristocratic patrons, and led to the diminution of his practice as a portraitist.
Nasmyth was also largely employed by noblemen throughout the country in the improving and beautifying of their estates, in which his fine taste rendered him especially skilful.
The University of Florida's CanariCam is a mid-infrared imager with spectroscopic, coronagraphic, and polarimetric capabilities, which will be mounted initially at the Nasmyth focus of the telescope.
It is connected along the southeast rim to the slightly smaller crater Nasmyth, which is in turn overlaid by the larger Phocylides.
The rim of Nasmyth is worn and impacted in several locations by craterlets, most notably Nasmyth D which lies across the north rim.
However, he left his studies to take up painting, of which he was mainly self-taught-partly by copying the works of Velasquez and other masters-though he briefly spent time in the studio of Alexander Nasmyth.
The railway acquired 26 of them, of which the last nine were built in England, three by Benjamin Hick and Sons and six by Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company The last one was withdrawn in 1856.
His picture of the " Slave Market, Constantinople ", was purchased by Alexander Hill, the publisher, and ‘ Byron in a Fisherman's Hut after swimming the Hellespont ’ ( exhibited 1831 ) by R. Nasmyth, who also bought Allan's portraits of Burns and Sir Walter Scott, which were engraved by John Burnet.
Nasmyth died of pneumonia-like symptoms, which he contracted shortly after painting a scene just outside London.
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A mere two months after his return to England, Nasmyth patented the hammer, in June 1842, and began production of them in Edinburgh.
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Roe ( 1916 ) credits James Nasmyth with the invention of the shaper in 1836.
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Nasmyth turned it down as he was then about to retire.
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.
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.
When Nasmyth was 23 years old, having saved the sum of ₤ 69, he decided to set up in business on his own.
In 1837 the Great Western Steam Company was experiencing many problems forging the paddle shaft of the SS Great Britain ; when even the largest hammer was tilted to its full height its range was so small that if a really large piece of work were placed on the anvil, the hammer had no room to fall, and in 1838 the company's engineer wrote to Nasmyth:
In April 1842, Nasmyth visited France with a view to supplying the French arsenals and dockyards with tools and while he was there took the opportunity to visit the Le Creusot works.
Nasmyth was also one of the first toolmakers to offer a standardised range of machine tools ; before this, manufacturers constructed tools according to individual clients ' specifications, with little regard to standardisation and caused compatibility problems.
This book contains an interesting series of " lunar " photographs: because photography was not yet advanced enough to take actual pictures of the Moon, Nasmyth built plaster models based on his visual observations of the Moon and then photographed the models.
A misunderstanding persisted for many years that James Nasmyth had claimed that Maudslay was the original inventor of the slide rest.
Alexander Nasmyth ( 9 September 1758 – 10 April 1840 ) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter, often called the " father of Scottish landscape painting ".
Nasmyth returned to Edinburgh in 1778, and was soon largely patronized as a portrait painter.
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.
Another of Alexander's successful pupils was Andrew Wilson, painter, teacher, art dealer and connoisseur, who had his first art training under Nasmyth.
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.
Alexander's six daughters all attained a certain local reputation as artists, but it was in his eldest son, Patrick Nasmyth, that the artistic skill of his family was most powerfully developed.
As such, they were often funded by local industrialists on the grounds that they would ultimately benefit from having more knowledgeable and skilled employees ( such philanthropy was shown by, among others, Robert Stephenson, James Nasmyth, John Davis Barnett and Joseph Whitworth ).
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