• Admiralty Board and steam hammer
• Affiffi Lalli
• Alphabet, cuneiform
• Ambidexter turning-lathe
• Amphitheatre at Nismes
• Ancestry
  • sentiment of
  • tomb of Nasmyth
• Anderson, Sir J.,
  • reports on Nasmyth steam-hammer
  • at Woolwich arsenal
  • reports on Nasmyth marine engine
  • Enfield small arms committee
• Antibilious stock
• Apprentices, premium
  • Maudslay's views on
  • Maudslay's views on
  • indenture
• Archimedes' screw
• Argyll, Duke of
  • a visitor
  • chairs British Association meetings
  • dedicated book 'The Moon' to
• Arthur's Seat
  • Sir James Halls interest in
  • discussions at
  • visited with Charles Maclaren
• Artists
  • Artists
  • family of
  • family of
  • friend
• Assyrian roller seal
• Aston, Mr Q.C., on chilled shot
• Astronomical Society, papers for
  • On solar light (May 1851)
  • The Rotatory Movements of the Celestial Bodies (June 1855)
• Astronomy, study of
  • using my fathers 'spy-glass'
  • Maudslay proposed telescope
  • at St Petersburg
  • at 'Fireside'
  • turn-table telescope
  • wonders of
• Athol, Duke of
• Bairds of Posso
• Bairds of St. Petersburg
• Bakers, contractors
• Bald, Robert
• Bannockburn, chain-mail at
• Barton of the Royal Mint
  • visitor to Maudslay's factory
  • visitor to Maudslay's factory
  • die cutting machine from France
• Bass Rock
• Bayeux, tapestry at
• Bennet, William
• Bentham, Sir S.,
  • ideas for machines
  • visitor to Maudslay's factory
• Bernard's Well
• Bessemer, Sir H.,
• Bibler's Seat
• Birkenhead
• Birmingham
• Black County
• Black Watch, entry of, to Edinburgh
• Block-machinery
• Blowing fans
• Bothwell Brig
• Bouchier, M., Paris
• Boulder clay
• Boulton and Watt
• Bourdon, M., Creuzot
• Bow-and-string bridges
• Boxer, Captain
• Brahé Tycho
• Brandreth, Captain
  • Director of Naval Works
  • steam pile-driver
  • proving of chain cables
• Brass casting
• Brest Arsenal
• Brewster, Sir D.,
  • visits family
  • walks around Edinburgh
  • The Expansometer
  • letter concerning Nasmyths telescope
  • The Expansometer
  • interest in telescopes built
• Brick, inscriptions in
• Bridges, D (note)
• Bridgewater Canal
  • first sight of
  • by foundry
  • use of wharf
• Bridgewater Foundry
  • acquired site of
  • drawing of
  • busy
• British Association meetings
  • return visit to Edinburgh for
  • Mr Bessemer's paper read at
• Brougham, Lord
  • views 1st steamboat
  • visited in London
• Brunel, Mr.,
  • ideas given for machines
  • sees design for steam-hammer
• Burgoyne, Sir J.,
• Burns, Robert
• Caddies, Edinburgh
• Calderon, Philip H., R.A.,
• Calico-printing
• Calton Hill
  • visits as a child
  • discussions at
• Canal traction
• Carmichaels, Dundee
• Carron Ironworks
• Casting specula
  • shows Herschel
  • ten-inch
  • method described
• Cast-iron structures
• Castle, Edinburgh
  • Castle, Edinburgh
  • Bibler's Seat
• Cats, fondness for
• Chain cables
  • proving of
  • improvement in
• Chambers, Robert
  • Chambers, Robert
  • as guide through Edinburgh
• Chantrey, sculptor
• Chartres Cathedral
• Cherbourg
• Chilled cast-iron shot
• Chime-bells, St. Giles's
• Chippendale, Mr., Manchester
• Chucking metal-work
• Clerk, John
• Coalbrookdale
• Cockburn, Sir G.,
  • visits steam-hammer
  • proving of chain cables
• Col d'Ollioulles
• Collar-nut cutting machine
• Colour-printing machines
• Colquhoun, Colonel
• Constantine, Grand Duke
• Cooking apparatus
• Copenhagen, museums
• Cottar slot-cutting machine
• Covenanters and civil war
• Coventry
• Cowper, Ebenezer
  • printing machines
  • Edward
  • lectures at Royal Institution, London
  • Lecture on Nasmyth's telescope
• Cragg, J.,
• Crater
  • Vesuvius
  • lunar
• Creuzot Ironworks
• Crewdson, Thomas
• Cundell brothers
• Cuneiform character
• Curves, graceful
• Cutting key-grooves
  • Cutting key-grooves
  • cottar slots
• Cylindrical rods, centres of
• Dales Street, factory in
• Dalswinton
  • Miler of
  • first steam-boat of
• Dannemora Iron Mine
• Dawyk, Deil of
• Dean Bridge
• De la Rue
  • speculum casted for
  • on seeing 'willow leaves' on the Sun
• Devon Ironworks
• Devonport Dockyard
• Dial of life
• Dilettanti Club
• Douglass George
  • steam-engine constructed for
  • temporary workshop, near
  • James Hutton, foreman to
• Drain, John
• Drawing classes
• Drawing
  • art classes in Edinburgh
  • graphic language
  • drawings of fancy
  • mechanical
• Dudley Castle
• Duncan, Viscount
• Dunkeld, planting at
• Dürer, Albert
• Edinburgh
  • Edinburgh
  • New
  • Castle
  • French prisoners at
  • scenery
  • picnics and sketch-book
  • volcanic
  • Pentland Hills
  • club life
  • Radical clubs
  • York Place
  • James Nasmyth, born at
  • New Town laid out
  • volcanic origin of
  • caddies
  • old buildings
  • Royal visit to
  • great fire at
  • School of Arts at
  • revisited
  • revisited
  • revisited
• Egerton, Lord F.,
• Egyptian workman
• Ellesmere, Earl of
  • visits to foundry
  • Worsley Hall
  • Countess of
• Enfield Small Arms Factory
• Erskine brothers
• Exhibition of all nations
• Expansometer
  • drawing of
  • details of
• Fans blowing, for coal mines
• Faraday, Michael
  • wishes to see
  • called upon Maudslay's
  • letter from
  • Hydraulic press, used for
• Fawcett, William
  • introduced to
  • revisited
• Files. Lancashire
• Fir cone, the sacred
• Fishwives, Edinburgh
• Flexible joint
• Foulis of Woodhall
• Foundry (see Bridgewater)
• Foundry ladle
  • Foundry ladle
  • work in Russia
• Fox, Charles
  • extension of Woolwich Arsenal
  • use of hydraulic press
• France, visits to
  • Royal Dockyards
  • travels around
  • again with wife
• Free Trade in Ability
  • Worsley labourers
  • famous examples
• French Protestants
  • French Protestants
  • prisoners, Edinburgh
• Gardening. pleasures of
• Garnett, H., partner
• Gaskell, Holbrook, partner
• Genoa, visit to
• Geology
  • Edinburgh
  • Giant's Causeway
  • Island of Mull
  • upon social history
  • scale of Earth's curve
• Ghost at Patricroft
• Giant's Causeway
  • Giant's Causeway
  • Giant's Causeway
• Giles's St., Edinburgh
  • visited with father
  • the great fire
• Glass globe cracked
• Gothic architecture
  • Sir James Hall's essay
  • churches in London
• Grant Brothers
  • introduced to
  • history of
  • requested pictures painted
• Graphic language
  • Alexander Nasmyth
  • my education
• Grassmarket, Edinburgh
  • Michael Naesmyth
  • plan of
• Great Britain steamship
• Great Western Railway Company
• Greg, General
• Greyfriars churchyard, family tombstone in
• Hall, Sir J.,
  • his essay on Gothic Architecture
  • named after
• Hamilton, Duke of
• Hammer(see Steam Hammer)
• Hammerfield
• Hamoaze, shore at
• Hartop, MR.,
  • stayed with and visited ironworks
  • agent for coal-pit fan
• Hastings, Sir T.,
• Heart of Midlothian
• Herbert, Mr. S
• Herschel, Sir J
  • mentions Nasmyth
  • his character
  • letter from regarding 'willow leaf' objects on Sun
  • visit from
  • visited
  • Miss
  • letter from
• Hick, Bolton
  • introduced to
  • hospitality
  • steam-hammer
  • Hydraulic press
• Hill, D. O.,
• Household management
• Hugo de Lupus
• Huguenots in Edinburgh
• Humphries (Dennison and Co.)
  • lease for Patricroft site
  • Patent for steam-hammer in U.S
• Humphries, Francis
• Hutton, James
• Hydraulic mattress press
  • Hydraulic mattress press
  • method of punching iron
• Indret, marine factory
• Infusoria, Bridgewater Canal
• Inversnaid Fort
• Iron
  • 'sow' and 'pig'
  • puddling
• Iron steamboat, first
• Irving, Washington
• Italy, visits to
  • Genoa, Pisa, Naples
  • Father Secchi and Otto W. von Struve
• Ivy screening
• Izak Church, St. Petersburg
• Jardine, James
• Joint, Flexible
• Kenilworth, ruins of
• Kennedy, John
  • my workshop in Manchester
  • recommended steam-engine
• Kensington Museum
• Kornileff, Admiral
• Krafft, sculptor
• Lancashire Files
• Landsccape painting
  • Alexander Nasmyth, switches to
  • beauty
  • theatre scenery
  • Patrick Nasmyth
  • of a Cottage in Kent
• Laocoon, drawing of the
• Lassell, William
  • his discoveries
  • letter from
  • after receiving book 'The Moon'
  • specula cast for
• Leslie, Professor
  • walks around Edinburgh
  • visits to Alexander Nasmyth
  • Sectional steam-engine made for
  • Expansometer
• Light, solar
• Link-valve motion
• Linnel, John
• Liverpool
  • Stephenson's 'Rocket'
  • looking to start business at
• Liverpool and Manchester Railway
  • Stephenson's 'Rocket'
  • opening of
• Lloyd, Edward
  • offers credit
  • advice on Manchester site
• London
• Londonderry
  • steam-engine, provided for distillery
  • completion of
• Lups, Hugo de
• Lyndhurst, Lord
• Maclaren, Charles
• Manchester
  • on walking trip
  • looking to start business at
• Manning, Cardinal
• Marseilles
  • business at
  • steamer out of
• Masters and men
  • during my great-grandfather's time
  • at Bridgewater Foundry
  • Worsley labourers
  • Trades Union
• Mattress press, hydraulic
• Maudslay, Henry
  • Maudslay, Henry
  • his factory
  • private workshop
  • maxims
  • uniformity of screws
  • block-machinery
  • the Endeavour
  • screw-tackle
  • philosophy of construction
  • the 'Lord Chancellor'
  • friends
  • return from Berlin
  • proposed telescope
  • death
• Merrick, S. V.,
• Microscope, investigations with
• Milky Way
  • view through 10 inch telescope
  • view through 10 inch telescope
  • through 20 inch
• Miller, Hugh, on boulder clay
  • lecture on
  • notes from
  • extract from Geological Features of Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood
• Miller, Patrick
  • Dalswinton
  • experiments with ships
  • orders the first steamboat
  • assists Alexander Nasmyth
• Mint, Royal
  • visited
  • modifications to machine for
• Mitchell, Sir T.,
  • source of Sun's light
  • scale of Earth's curve
• Mohammed Ali
• Moon
  • observation of the
  • lunar craters
  • lunar craters
  • drawings of
  • drawings of
  • lectures on
  • lectures on
  • prize for drawings of
  • work on 'The Moon'
  • cracking a glass globe
  • my book on
• Mortar, floating
• Motala, Sweeden
• Mull, Island of
• Murdoch, William
  • his steam-engine adapted
  • his vacuum engines
• Murray, Lord
• Naesmyth, family of
  • Naesmyth, family of
  • origin of name
  • Sir Michael of Posso
  • James of Dawick
  • of Netherton
  • Elspeth, burnt as a witch
  • Elspeth, burnt as a witch
  • Michael(1st), builder and architect
  • Michael(2d)
  • Michael(3d)
  • Michael(4th), purser
• Naples, visit to
• Nasmyth, Alexander
  • born
  • education
  • apprenticed to coach-builder
  • pupil of drawing academy
  • assistant to Allan Ramsay
  • portrait painter in Edinburgh
  • assists Miller of Dalswinton
  • visits Italy
  • marriage
  • paints portrait of Burns
  • becomes landscape painter
  • architect
  • bow-and-string bridges
  • family gatherings
  • his classes
  • his workshop
  • his workshop
  • his graphic language
  • his graphic language
  • journey to Stirling
  • visit to London
  • paints Elgin and Castle Grant
  • visits Manchester and Bridgewater Foundary
  • death
• Nasmyth James
  • born
  • left-handed
  • brother Patrick
  • the French prisoners
  • entry of the Black Watch
  • the Calton Hill
  • chimes of St. Giles
  • marketing
  • marketing
  • school-days
  • at High School
  • Sir W. Scott
  • collecting period
  • mechanical pursuits
  • school friendships
  • learns chemistry
  • learns drawing
  • walks round Edinburgh
  • George IV's visit
  • great fires
  • visit to Stirling
  • model of steam-engine
  • School of Arts classes
  • brass moulding in bedroom
  • makes a working steam-engine
  • expansometer
  • road steam-carriage
  • taken on as assistant at Maudslay's
  • trip to Richmond
  • rudimentary screws
  • cooking apparatus
  • collar-nut cutting machine
  • trip to Liverpool and manufacturing districts
  • walk to London
  • leaves Maudslay and Field
  • workshop in Edinburgh
  • Liverpool revisited
  • Manchester
  • takes factory flat
  • first order
  • trip to Castle Grant
  • flat overloaded
  • takes land at Patricroft
  • Bridgewater Foundary begun
  • residence near
  • safety foundary ladle
  • partner taken
  • workshop lieutenants
  • the strike
  • marriage
  • invents steam-hammer
  • first adopted in France
  • UK patented
  • USA patented
  • visit to France and Italy
  • steam pile-driver invented and employed
  • visit to Germany and Russia
  • dannemora
  • work at Bridgewater Foundry
  • astronomical researches
  • British Association at Edinburgh
  • interview with the Queen and Prince Consort
  • Trunnion turn-table telescope
  • papers for Astronomical Society
  • papers for Astronomical Society
  • member of Enfield Small Arms Committee
  • patent for puddling iron by steam
  • correspondence with Bessemer
  • retirement from business
  • the Cottage in Kent
  • visits to Edinburgh
  • and the Continent
  • willow-leaf objects on sun's surface
  • willow-leaf objects on sun's surface
  • Sir John Herschel at Hammerfield
  • visit to Father Secchi, Rome
  • publication of 'The Moon'
  • dial of life
• Nasmyth, Mrs
  • marriage
  • household affairs
  • Misses
  • drawing classes
  • Margaret at my cottage
• Nasmyth, Patrick
  • Nasmyth, Patrick
  • removes to London
  • his works
  • prices of works
  • his friends
  • death
• Nelson's Monument
• Netherton, Naesmyths of
  • Netherton, Naesmyths of
  • estate confiscated
• Nicholas, Emperor
  • supply of locomotives
  • a royal salute to
• Nismes, architecture at
  • its Amphitheatre
  • revisited
  • Pont du Gard, near
• Norman architecture
  • examples in London
  • at Kenilworth
• Nuremberg
• Nut-cutting machine
• Oxford, visit to
• Paddle-shaft, Great Britain
• Paris, visits to
  • Paris, visits to
  • apartments of the Archbishop
• Parry. Sir E.,
• Partners
  • Holbrook Gaskell
  • notice to retire
• Patents
  • UK for steam-hammer
  • USA for steam-hammer
  • steam pile-driver
  • puddling iron by steam
• Patricroft
  • first visited
  • acquired site at
  • (see Bridgewater Foundary)
• Patterson, James
• Peel, Sir R., works
• Pencil drawings
  • Alexander Nasmyth's views on
  • James Nasmyth, practices
• Petersburg, St.,
• Photography
• Pico, lunar mountain
• Pile-driver, steam
  • invented
  • two ordered
  • success of
• Pillans, Professor
• Pisa, buildings at
• Piston, safety
• Planes, standard
• Playfair, Professor
• Poker Club
• Pont du Gard
• Posso
  • Bairds of
  • Naesmyths of
• Prince Consort, interview with
• Printing machine
• Prisoners of war
• Puddling iron
• Punctiliousness at dockyards
• Pyramid, sun-ray origin of
• Queen, interview with
• Raeburn, Sir H.,
• Ramsay, Allan
• Ramsbotham. Mr. (Crewe)
• Ramsbottom
• Reed. Sir E. J.,
• Reflecting telescope
  • suggested to Mr Maudslay
  • constructing one
  • My 20 inch 'Trunnion Vision'
  • views with
  • casting specula for
• Resourcefulness, faculity of
  • painting on of silk stockings
  • planting trees via a cannon
• Reversing action of slide lathe
• Richmond, trip to
• Road steam-carriage
• Roberts, David, R. A.,
  • recollects Alexander Nasmyth's theatre scenery
  • visited in London
  • letter from, regarding my planned retirement
• Roberts (Sharp, Roberts, and Co.)
• Rocket, the
• Rock-groovings
  • at Corstophine Hill
  • at Arthur's Seat
• Roller-seal, Assyrian
• Rolling mill, reversible
• Rome, observatory at
• Rope factory, Russia
• Rosina, Naples
• Rosine, M., Indret
• Roslin Castle
• Rotary
  • steam-engine
  • movement of heavenly bodies
  • mode of communicating rotary motion
• Rouen, architecture at
• Roy, Rob, at Inversnaid
• Runciman, Alexander
• Rushton and Eckersley
  • orders first steam hammer
  • works visited
  • puddling iron
  • cake of iron supplied
• Russia
  • visit to
  • serfs of
  • rope factory
• Safety Foundry Ladle
• Safety valve
• Saint Bernard's Well
• Sampler, Mrs. Nasmyth's
• Scheme book
  • sketched steam hammer
  • open for inspection
• Schneider, M., Creuzot
• School of Arts, Edinburgh
• Scott, Sir Walter
• Secchi, Father, Rome
• Segmental work, turning
• Self-adjusting bearings
• Siemens on solar light
• Sluice valve for water
• Smith, F. P., and the screw
• Smith, Tom
• Society of Arts, Edinburgh
• Spain, orders for
• Speculum casting
  • shown to J Herschel
  • at factory
  • method explained
• Spots on the sun
  • drawing of
  • Father Secchi
• Standard planes
• Stanfield, Clarkson
  • the style of nature
  • visited in London
• Stars and suns
• Steam-arm, Nasmyth's
• Steamboat, the first
• Steam-carriage for roads
• Steam engine
  • model of
  • blast of
  • birthplace of
  • small
  • for canal traction
• Steam hammer
  • invented
  • at Crezot
  • UK patent for
  • USA patent for
  • at Devonport
  • in Russia
  • at Great Exhibition
• Steam hammer form of steam-engine
  • at Great Exhibition
  • drawing of
• Steam ram
• Steel
  • hardening of
  • manufacture of, at Dannemora
  • by Bessemer
• Steen's rotary engine
• Stephensons, the
  • running their 'Rocket'
  • hampered in building
• Stirling Castle
• Stockholm
  • visited by steamer
  • sketch of
• Stone, W. J., astronomer
• Strikes
  • at Bridgewater Foundry
  • at Platt Brothers, Oldham
• Struve, astronomer
  • visited at observatory
  • visited at Rome
• Stubbs 'P.S.' Files
• Stylus, Assyrian
• Sun
  • light of
  • 'willow-leaf objects' on
  • representation of
  • sun-ray origin of pyramids
• Sunday rivet
• Superheated steam
• Sweden
  • visit to
  • people of
• Syme, John
• Sympathy of activity
• Talking Books, Mr. Field's
• Tapping square
• Telescope
  • refractor, at Berlin Observatory
  • reflecting, construction of
  • 'Trunnion Vision' model
  • views through
  • method of casting specula
• Thrift boxes
• Tides, the
• Tolbooth, Old
• Tomb, ancestral
• Tootal, Edward
  • visited in Manchester
  • first order from
  • views on employment
• Torpedo ram
• Torry, Archie
  • hired
  • move to Manchester
  • his hearty zeal
• Toulon Dockyard
• Trades' Union
  • collision with
  • views on apprenticeship
  • supervision of machines
• Trafford, Squire
• Trollhätten Falls
• Trunnion turntable telescope
• Trustees' Academy
• Tunnels, method of drilling
• Unionists, Trades
  • collision with
  • strike at Bridgewater Foundry
  • supervision of machines
• United States
  • patent for steam hammer
  • Enfield Small Arms Factory
• Upsala
• Valve
  • sluice
  • safety
• Veitch, Dawick
• Vesuvius
• Volcanic Action
  • around Edinburgh
  • around Edinburgh
  • action of Earth's remote history
  • at Vesuvius
  • craters at
  • on the Moon
• Warrington workmen
• Warwick
• Watson, William
• Watt, James
  • seen at Edinburgh
  • his condensing engine
• Welding of iron
  • defective on chain-links
  • improved method of
• Westminster Abbey
  • first visited
  • Sunday walks to
• Whistler, Major
• Wilkie, Sir D.,
  • assistance given to
  • visited in London
  • letter from following Alexander Nasmyth's death
• Willow-leaf objects on sun
  • discovered
  • Father Secchi's representation of
• Wilson, General, visited in St. Petersburg
• Windmill on workshop
• Winsor
• Witch, Elspeth Naesmyth burnt as a
  • reasons for given
  • reasons for given
• Woolwich
  • Maudslay fondness for
  • the Government Arsenal at
• Worsley labourers
• Wren and Bennett
• Wrinkles, indicating age
• Wyon, Royal Mint