James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
1883
- Preface
- Chapter 1 My Ancestry
- Chapter 2 Alexander Nasmyth
- Chapter 3 An Artist's Family
- Chapter 4 My Early Years
- Chapter 5 My School-days
- Chapter 6 Mechanical Beginnings
- Chapter 7 Henry Maudslay, London
- Chapter 8 Maudslay's Private Assistant
- Chapter 9 Holiday in the Manufacturing Districts
- Chapter 10 Begin Business at Manchester
- Chapter 11 Bridgewater Foundry—Partnership
- Chapter 12 Free Trade in Ability—The Strike—Death of my Father
- Chapter 13 My Marriage—The Steam Hammer
- Chapter 14 Travels in France and Italy
- Chapter 15 Steam Hammer Pile-driver
- Chapter 16 Nuremberg—St. Petersburg—Dannemora
- Chapter 17 More about Bridgewater Foundry—Woolwich Arsenal
- Chapter 18 Astronomical pursuits
- Chapter 19 More about Astronomy
- Chapter 20 Retirement from Business
- Chapter 21 Active leisure
- Chronological List of Mechanical Inventions and Technical Contrivances
- The Sun-Ray Origin of the Pyramids and Cuneiform Character