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	Henry Maudslay Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Maudslay was born in Woolwich, Kent, in the southeastern part of England, on August 22, 1771.
		Maudslay was so pleased with the outcome that he commissioned Nasmyth, who had the skills of an artist, to draft a memorial portrait drawing.
		Henry Maudslay was born in Woolwich, England in 1771.
	www.bookrags.com /Henry_Maudslay (2674 words)

	Henry Maudslay 1771-1831 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Henry Maudslay was apprenticed to Joseph Bramah (lock maker and inventor of the hydraulic press) but soon became his foreman.
		Maudslay invented a new type of side rule (the early analogue computer used, by engineers and mathematicians, for multiplying and dividing numbers).
		Maudslay is also the inventor of a method of desalinating seawater for marine boilers, a method of printing on calico.
	www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /Maudslay.html (558 words)

	CHAPTER 8. Maudslay's Private Assistant
		Maudslay had embodied so much of his thought in the design that he desired to have an exact model of them placed in his library, so as to keep a visible record of his ideas constantly before him.
		Maudslay would first mark or line out his work, and the masterly manner in which he would deal with his materials, and cause them to assume the desired forms, was a treat beyond all expression.
		Maudslay's love of accuracy also led him to distrust the verdicts given by the employment of the ordinary callipers and compasses in determining the absolute or relative dimensions of the refined mechanism which he delighted to construct with his own hands.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Nasmyth/00000020.htm (4638 words)

	K-MODDL > Tutorials > Reuleaux Triangle
		Henry Maudslay[1] (1771-1831) and his two sons, Thomas (1792-1864) and Joseph (1801-1861), were all engineers and they all had extensive careers in building machines.
		Throughout his life Henry recognized the need for standardization in making goods of all sorts, and he improved the micrometer by a factor of ten so that it was capable if accurately measuring down to one ten-thousandths of inch.
		Henry Maudslay and Sons manufactured equipment for flourmills, sawmills, minting equipment and for shaping metal.
	kmoddl.library.cornell.edu /biographies/Maudslay/index.php (534 words)

	Henry Maudslay - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Maudslay, Henry (1771-1831), English mechanical engineer, manufacturer, and inventor, whose advances in machine tools were of fundamental...
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	encarta.msn.com /Henry_Maudslay.html (119 words)

	Chapter Henry Maudslay, London of Autobiography by James Nasmyth
		THE chief object of my ambition was now to be taken on at Henry Maudslay's works in London.
		I was also informed that Maudslay had ceased to take pupils.
		Maudslay that I was not an amateur, but a regular working engineer.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/9/70/117/24597/1.html (692 words)

	Whitworth Society - Sir Joseph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When Henry Maudslay later went on to establish his own company, his work was influenced by precision, which was required for the machines, which he had designed and made for Joseph Bramah.
		Henry Maudslay was among one of the first to recognise the importance of standardisation and interchangeability of machine parts.
		Henry Maudslay's lathe was far superior to any of its predecessors and as such it became widely used.
	www.whitworthsociety.org /content/view/25/44 (2426 words)

	James Nasmyth
		He had heard of the fame of Henry Maudslay's workshop and resolved, to get employment there.
		In 1829 he went to London and called on Maudslay, taking his drawings and steam engine with him, and as a result Maudslay appointed him his own private workman at 10 shillings a week.
		Unfortunately, Maudslay died two years later, whereupon Nasmyth was taken on by Maudslay's partner as a draughtsman[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/James_Nasmyth.html (766 words)

	Joseph Clement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Henry was set to work as a "powder monkey" in the dockyards at the age of twelve.
		Maudslay went on to improve the slide lathe, as well as inventing new machine tools and manufacturing flour mills, saw mills, mint machinery and steam engines.
		Maudslay was known not only as a master craftsman, but also as a genial person and an excellent trainer.
	www3.museumofmaking.org /dbtw-wpd/bios_maudslay.htm (633 words)

	Henry_Maudslay - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
		Henry Maudslay (August 22, 1771 - February 14 1831) was a British machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor.
		He applied the ideas of interchangeable parts including nuts and bolts (before that all nuts and bolts were made as matching pairs only), and developed the first screw-cutting lathe, allowing standardisation on screw thread sizes for the first time.
		Maudslay invented the first bench micrometer that was capable of measuring to one ten thousandth of an inch (he called it the "Lord Chancellor"), and a new form of slide rest lathe.
	www.thewordbook.com /Henry_Maudslay (495 words)

	Youngfolk's Book of Invention
		Maudslay, Joseph Bramah’s foreman, helped him greatly, and at last, in 1784, their efforts were successful, and Bramah patented the lock.
		Henry Maudslay, who did so much to help Bramah with his hydraulic inventions, is chiefly remembered as the inventor of the slide-rests for lathes.
		Maudslay resolved to remedy this, and succeeded in inventing the slide-rest, which holds the tool securely and by a mere movement of a screw handle moves it along the face of the work as required.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/preservation/science/inventions/chpt8.htm (3334 words)

	Union Hill Antique Tools - Important Machinist Biographies
		This enabled the young Maudslay to obtain a position in that organisation in which he rapidly became a proficient worker, particularly after he was transferred to the metalworking shops.
		However, when Maudslay appeared at Bramah's works both Bramah and his foreman were at first doubtful of his capability for he had served no recognised apprenticeship.
		But on Maudslay offering to re-build a damaged bench vice as a test of his proficiency and finding that he did so expeditiously and well, they became convinced of his suitability for the post offered.
	www.turners.org /lathebio.html (1946 words)

	Tilt Hammer - Steel City Founders - Henry Maudslay
		Henry Maudslay was born at Woolwich on August 22nd 1771.
		Henry Maudslay had built up a strong reputation as a smith and tool maker.
		See the Timeworks review of "Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age" by John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson.
	www.tilthammer.com /bio/maud.html (444 words)

	Lindsay's Technical Archive: Maudsley
		Henry Maudsley was the originator of modern machine tools.
		William Maudsley, father of Henry, was a joiner working in the neighborhood of Bolton.
		Here he was married and Henry was born in August, 1770.
	www.lindsaybks.com /arch/maud (1490 words)

	The American Experience \| The Wizard of Photography \| People & Events \| Eastman and Mass Production
		Henry Maudslay grew up around the dockyards of Woolwich, where he made himself useful at an early age by making and filling cartridges for the local arsenal.
		In effect, Maudslay's lathe, which incorporated a blade of crucible steel mounted on accurately-planed triangular beams, allowed him to do work on a large scale while retaining the locksmith's or the clockmaker's precision.
		Maudslay's work opened the way for the making of interchangeable parts, and he soon became highly sought after by aspiring engineers.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eastman/peopleevents/pande11.html (1007 words)

	British Motor Manufacturers 1894-1960, Maudslay
		Henry Maudslay was born in 1771 and died in Lambeth on the 15th February 1831.
		He founded Maudslay, Sons and Field at Lambeth in the early 19th century to make marine engines and after his death the company was involved with Sir Charles Dance's steam carriage and built marine steam engines until 1899.
		Henry's three surviving grandsons, Joseph, Cyril and the Reverend H Maudslay Hordern, Bishop of Lewes, wished to commemorate their grandfathers' name, so in 1942 founded the Maudslay Society to encourage young engineers.
	www.britishmm.co.uk /history.asp?id=601 (282 words)

	Table Engine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Invented in 1807 by the English engineer, Henry Maudslay (1771-1831) it was more efficient than the old "Walking Beam" engines, allowing a more direct connection between the piston and the crankshaft.
		Both Maudslay's engine and connecting rod engines similar to it rapidly came into widespread use both in factories and steamships.
		Henry Maudslay served his apprenticeship under Joseph Bramah.
	www.swanseaheritage.net /article/print_ver.asp?ARTICLE_ID=352 (125 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - The Dam Buster Pilots
		And we found that Henry’s parents have a gravestone in Sherbourne Church, and then we subsequently found that his family lived in what must have been a beautiful Victorian house in Watery Lane, which is now a language school, but the person who really helped me was Jack Pratley from the Wellesbourne Air Museum.
		And then of course we found that Henry had been to Eton and he was a member of Pop, which is like principally to be a member of Pop you have to be elected by your contemporaries, so obviously Henry was quite a popular boy.
		Maudslay used to take their little dog for a walk, and he said I remember Henry cycling down steep hills with his feet on the handlebars, because obviously you know he was a bit of a dare devil.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/49/a3729549.shtml (1142 words)

	Tilt Hammer - Reviews
		Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age by John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson
		Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age
		Maudslay's workshops became the nursery for a group of outstanding engineers.
	www.tilthammer.com /rev (1221 words)

	RSA Treasure Trails - The Science Museum
		Maudslay (1771-1831) is one of the forgotten engineers, his reputation being eclipsed by the more flamboyant Marc Isambard Brunel.
		Called a table engine because of the form of the frame that supports the cylinder, it was small and compact compared with the beam engine, which required a massive engine house to contain it.
		Maudslay was a Member of the Society from 1805 until his death.
	www.thersa.org /250/science.asp (2154 words)

	Amazon.com: "Henry Maudslay": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In conducting the manufacture throughout, Bramah was greatly assisted by Henry Maudslay, his foreman, to whom he was in no small degree indebted for the contrivance of those tool-machines which enabled him...
		Bramah was greatly assisted by Henry Maudslay, his foreman, to whom he was in no small degree indebted for the contrivance of those tool-machines which enabled him...
		Henry Maudslay, a noted steam engine builder and inventor of machine tools, was from a Lancashire family outside Liverpool.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Henry-Maudslay (506 words)

	The Industrial Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He is best known for constructing a measuring machine that could measure to an accuracy of one-millionth of an inch, and for first suggesting the standardization of screw threads in English industry.
		Probably Maudslay's greatest protege was James Nasmyth (1808-1890), whose inventions include the milling machine and a planing machine or shaper.
		Henry Bessemer (1813-1898) is the man whose name we associate today with one of the major processes of producing steel.
	www.neo-tech.com /businessmen/part6.html (3293 words)

	Making the Modern World - Henry Maudslay
		Having become a skilled workman at the Woolwich Arsenal, where his father was an artificer, Maudslay was apprenticed in early life to the famous lockmaker Bramah.
		He left at the age of 27 after a dispute with his employer, and set up as an independent engineer in Lambeth, London, where he was employed by Marc Brunel in the construction of machinery for making ships' blocks.
		In 1807 Maudslay patented his 'table engine', a compact steam engine which remained in use for many years.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /people/BG.0002 (232 words)

	Engineering Timelines - explore ... where
		Henry Maudslay's various engineering works were famous for the tools and machinery they made.
		Born 22nd August 1771, Maudslay's first job was as a powder monkey at Wooolwich Arsenal.
		Henry Maudslay was one of the most sought after mechanics in London, even while still at Woolwich Arsenal.
	www.engineering-timelines.com /scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=448 (268 words)

	History of Clamps, and of Clamp Making in America
		Henry Maudslay, a British mechanical genius, to achieve the first effective screw-cutting lathe, in the late 1700s, building on the work of his predecessors over previous centuries.
		Henry Maudslay, 1771-1831, was employed originally by Bramah, the 'locksmith', but left his services in 1797 following a dispute over rates of pay.
		Bramah himself was a prolific inventor, numbering amongst his designs the hydraulic press and the beer engine, but there is little doubt that he owed much to Maudslay, as a practical mechanic, who perfected Bramah's locks.
	www.hometown.aol.com /clampGuy/hist.htm (936 words)

	Maudslay: the Maya man: Ian Graham celebrates the efforts of the archaeologist and photographer in opening up for study ...
		Maudslay: the Maya man: Ian Graham celebrates the efforts of the archaeologist and photographer in opening up for study the Mayan civilisation of central America.(Alfred Percival Maudslay (1850-1931))
		This pioneer was Alfred Percival Maudslay (1850-1931), whose photographs and plaster casts have proved of enduring worth and beauty, and remain an object lesson in the recording of archaeological remains.
		He was the grandson of Henry Maudslay, a mechanical engineer who was regarded as the father of precision in mechanical engineering for the improvements he made in machine tools and measuring instruments.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/gi_0199-887521/Maudslay-the-Maya-man-Ian.html (721 words)

	Henry Maudsley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Maudslay began his career at the Woolwich Arsenal, where he worked for Joseph Bramah, before opening his own company near Oxford Street in 1797.
		Maudslay is credited with being the inventor of the modern lathe an example of which is preserved in the Museum of Science and Industry.
		Accurate measuring devices and aids to precision engineering such as micrometers and surface plates were among Maudslay's other developments.
	basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk /~mjh1hlc/maudsley.htm (216 words)

	Making the Modern World - Henry Maudslay
		Having become a skilled workman at the Woolwich Arsenal, where his father was an artificer, Maudslay was apprenticed in early life to the famous lockmaker Bramah.
		He left at the age of 27 after a dispute with his employer, and set up as an independent engineer in Lambeth, London, where he was employed by Marc Brunel in the construction of machinery for making ships' blocks.
		In 1807 Maudslay patented his 'table engine', a compact steam engine which remained in use for many years.
	www.makingthemodernworld.com /people/BG.0002 (232 words)

	Union Hill Antique Tools - A Table of Dates By Warren G. Ogden Jr
		Perhaps fate decided at this time that sixty-seven years would be the life span of the infant Holtzapffel—Henry Maudslay would not be born in Woolwich for another three years.
		Bramah's curt refusal to consider an increase in Henry Maudslay's salary of 30s.
		Possibly a year and a half later, sometime in 1797, Henry Maudslay built his classic screw cutting lathe with inter-changeable lead screws and, also, change gears according to some historians.
	www.turners.org /dates.html (607 words)

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