ENGINEER and INVENTOR
Edited by SAMUEL SMILES, LL.D.
This HTML version produced by
Eric Hutton copyright 1995
Chapter 1 My Ancestry
Chapter 2 Alexander Nasmyth
Chapter 3 An Artist’s Family
Chapter 4 My Early Years
Chapter 5 My School-days
Chapter 6 Mechanical Beginnings
Chapter 7 Henry Maudslay, London
Chapter 8 Maudslay’s Private Assistant
Chapter 9 Holiday in the Manufacturing Districts
Chapter 10 Begin Business at Manchester
Chapter 11 Bridgewater Foundry – Partnership
Chapter 12 Free Trade in Ability – The Strike – Death of my Father
Chapter 13 My Marriage – The Steam Hammer
Chapter 14 Travels in France and Italy
Chapter 15 Steam Hammer Pile-driver
Chapter 16 Nuremberg — St. Petersburg — Dannemora.
Chapter 17 More about Bridgewater Foundry – Woolwich Arsenal
Chapter 18 Astronomical pursuits
Chapter 19 More about Astronomy
Chapter 20 Retirement from Business
Chapter 21 Active leisure