James Nasmyth (1808-1890)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/125574
- Name (English)
- James Nasmyth
- Short name
- James Nasmyth
- Year of birth
- 1808
- Year of death
- 1890
- Short Description
- "James Hall Nasmyth (sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth) (19 August 1808 – 7 May 1890) 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." - (en.wikipedia.org 14.07.2020)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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