James Nasmyth
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James Hall Nasmyth was a Scottish engineer, philosopher, artist and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer. He was the co-founder of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company manufacturers of machine tools. He retired at the age of 48, and moved to Penshurst, Kent where he developed his hobbies of astronomy and photography.
47 York Place, Edinburgh, Plaque commemorating James Nasmyth's birth
James Nasmyth circa 1844 by Hill & Adamson.
James Nasmyth's patent steam hammer as illustrated in Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, 1854
Drawing of a crater on the surface of the Moon by Nasmyth
Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company
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Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company, originally called The Bridgewater Foundry, specialised in the production of heavy machine tools and locomotives. It was located in Patricroft, in Salford England, close to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the Bridgewater Canal and the Manchester Ship Canal. The company was founded in 1836 and dissolved in 1940.
A Nasmyth steam hammer at the site of the former foundry