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  • Professor Willis says that Bramah's, in other words Maudslay's, slide rest of 1794 is so different from that described in the French 'Encyclopedie in 1772, that the two could not have had a common origin.

    Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

  • Professor Willis says that Bramah's, in other words Maudslay's, slide rest of 1794 is so different from that described in the French 'Encyclopedie in 1772, that the two could not have had a common origin.

    Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858

  • Indeed it may be said that what Oxford and Cambridge are in letters, workshops such as Maudslay's and Penn's are in mechanics.

    Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

  • Cambridge are in letters, workshops such as Maudslay's and Penn's are in mechanics.

    Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858

  • After the demonstration by Boulton and Watt that large mechanisms could be wrought with sufficient precision to be useful, the English tool builders Maudslay, Roberts, Clement, Nasmyth, and Whitworth developed machine tools of increasing size and truth.

    Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960

  • Maudslay's works, we are told, came to be regarded as a first-class school for mechanical engineers, the Oxford and Cambridge of mechanics; nor can Oxford and Cambridge men be any prouder of their connection with their colleges than distinguished engineers of their connection with this famous school of Maudslay.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

  • Brunel and made by Maudslay for Chatham dockyard in England, 1802-8, was as perfect an exemplification of the idea as the nature of the work to be done required.

    Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

  • Messrs. Maudslay, Sons & Field being the oldest -- for the manufacture of marine engines.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various

  • Stone carving, possibly a lizard, Copan, Stela 6 (Maudslay I, Pl. 107).

    Animal Figures in the Maya Codices 1915

  • The former is considered to be a vulture by Maudslay, but the presence of feathers covering the head excludes this interpretation.

    Animal Figures in the Maya Codices 1915

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