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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.
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Andrew R. Cobb designed several campus buildings including: Raynor Hall Residence, 1916 ; Horton House, designed by Cobb in the Georgian style, and built by James Reid of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was opened in 1915 as Horton Academy.
Computer laboratory, Moody Hall, James Madison University, 2003
* James H. McClellan, Ronald W. Schafer, Mark A. Yoder: Signal Processing First, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-090999-8
As a result he, along with outspoken young goaltender Glenn Hall, was promptly traded to Chicago ( which was owned by James D. Norris, Bruce's elder brother ) after his most productive year.
He is also a member of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame and is known for dubbing heavyweight champion James J. Braddock, the " Cinderella Man ".
The first practical electron microscope was constructed in 1938, at the University of Toronto, by Eli Franklin Burton and students Cecil Hall, James Hillier, and Albert Prebus ; and Siemens produced the first commercial transmission electron microscope ( TEM ) in 1939.
A joint force of about 400 Volunteers and Citizen Army gathered at Liberty Hall under the command of Commandant James Connolly.
Gathering on Sanssouci in the Marble Hall, with Voltaire, Casanova, d ' Argens, La Mettrie, James Francis Edward Keith | James Keith, George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal | George Keith, Friedrich Rudolf von Rothenburg, Christoph Ludwig von Stille, Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz and Algarotti.
University Museums shares the James R. and Barbara R. Palmer Small Objects Classroom in Morrill Hall.
* 1761 – James Hall, Scottish geologist ( d. 1832 )
An eroded outcrop at Siccar Point showing sloping red sandstone above vertical greywacke was sketched by Sir James Hall in 1788.
They then took a boat trip from Dunglass Burn east along the coast with the geologist Sir James Hall of Dunglass.
Marker designating the site of James Monroe's birthplace in Monroe Hall, Virginia
* 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
Most recently, James Madison University has used funds to create a new baseball and softball field complex by Memorial Hall.
The first Moroccan book was published in 1973 is still in print and was added to the James Beard Hall of Fame in 2008.
In the 1971 Emmy Award winning TV movie " Brian's Song " which portrays the story of former Chicago Bears running backs Brian Piccolo and Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, it ’ s the night after Piccolo's second surgery and Piccolo ( James Caan ) is talking to Sayers ( Billy Dee Williams ) on the phone.
* The oldest is the main city loop, the City Circle, which runs between Central, Town Hall, Wynyard, Circular Quay, St James and Museum stations.
Gilliam was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Beatrice ( née Vance ) and James Hall Gilliam, who was a traveling salesman for Folgers before becoming a carpenter.
Although a lot across Sixth Street from Independence Hall was offered without cost by James Logan, its owner, the Trustees realized that the building erected in 1740, which was still vacant, would be an even better site.
Club members who packaged a bid in 1907 to move the college to Tulsa included: B. Betters, H. O. McClure, L. N. Butts, W. L. North, James H. Hall ( sic ), Grant C. Stebbins, Rev.
In the Spring of 1788 he took a boat trip along the Berwickshire coast with John Playfair and the geologist Sir James Hall, and found a dramatic unconformity showing the same sequence at Siccar Point.
** James Hall, American actor ( b. 1900 )
* September 1 – Seton Hall University is founded by Archdiocese of Newark Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley, a cousin of U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt and nephew of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.
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* June – James Nasmyth patents the steam hammer in the United Kingdom.
James Nasmyth had been working on a similar idea for some time prior to this.
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.
* James Nasmyth ( 1808-1890 ), inventor of the steam hammer.
His father Alexander Nasmyth was a landscape and portrait painter in Edinburgh, where James was born.
James Nasmyth circa 1844 by Hill & Adamson.
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.
The milling machine built by James Nasmyth between 1829 and 1831, with indexing fixture.
In memory of his renowned contribution to the discipline of mechanical engineering, the Department of Mechanical Engineering building at Heriot-Watt University, in his birthplace of Edinburgh, is called the James Nasmyth Building.
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A misunderstanding persisted for many years that James Nasmyth had claimed that Maudslay was the original inventor of the slide rest.
Many outstanding engineers trained in his workshop, including Richard Roberts, David Napier, Joseph Clement, Sir Joseph Whitworth, James Nasmyth ( inventor of the steam hammer ), Joshua Field and William Muir.
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.
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.
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.
** For an account of the Nasmyth family see James Nasmyth ’ s Autobiography ( 1883 ) online version
Roe ( 1916 ) credits James Nasmyth with the invention of the shaper in 1836.
* James Nasmyth invents the shaper.
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