Nasmyth's patent steam hammer mb-code 42-58923413 Henry Cotton

Henry Cotton

Church of St Dunstan and All Saints

standing with his right hand crooked at the hip

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Nasmyth's patent steam hammer mb-code 42-58923413 Henry CottonNasmyth's patent steam hammer, 1866. The steam hammer was invented by the Scottish engineer and inventor James Nasmyth (1808 1890). It took the human effort out of the process of forging wrought iron and steel to form engine and machine parts, as well as substantially reducing production costs. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II, Virtue and Co,