Nasmyth, James (1808-90)

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke3887.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3887. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Engineer, born in Edinburgh, invented the steam hammer and many other devices in mechanical engineering especially for canal working. A childhood interest in astronomy meant that he maintained an interest in astronomical instruments in his professional engineering career, making two conventional small telescopes for himself, and visiting STRUVE during a visit to St Petersburg, for example. He m...

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