James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and astronomer Size:S: 36 x 28cm who used his initials for

who used his initials for the name

It was first conferred by Queen Victoria on 62 men in June 1857

carrying a card of pins and a box under his arm

Plate 4 from the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture by Apsley Pellatt (David Bogue

James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and astronomer Size:S: 36 x 28cm who used his initials forJames Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and astronomer, 1877. Nasmyth is best known for his invention of the steam hammer. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (London, 1876 1883).