James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography

*The Project Gutenberg Etext of James Nasmyth's Autobiography*[Life in Edinburgh in the 18th and 19th Cent. His artist father. Travels in England and Europe. His factory and inventionsincluding the Steam Hammer. Pursuit of astronomy after an early retirement]Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before posting thesefiles!!Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk,keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this.**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts****Etexts Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971***These Etexts Prepared By Hundreds of Volunteers and Donations*Information on contacting Project Gutenberg to get Etexts, and further information is included below. We need yourdonations.James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.Edited by Samuel SmilesMarch, 1996 [Etext #476]*The Project Gutenberg Etext of James Nasmyth's autobiography******This file should be named jnasm10.txt or jnasm10.zip******Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, jnasm11.txt.VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, jnasm10a.txt.This etext (jnasm10.txt) is the plain text taken from the HTML which I produced and put on the Internet, back in October1995. Apart from some minor punctuation corrections, and the removal of a duplicated footnote in chapter 10. The text isthe ...