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    Robert Nasmyth FRCSEd, FRSE (7 November 1791 – 12 May 1870) was a Scottish dental surgeon from Edinburgh who was Surgeon-Dentist to Queen Victoria in Scotland...
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    settings. His portrait of Robert Burns, who became a close friend, is now in the Scottish National Gallery. Eventually, Nasmyth's strong Liberal opinions...
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    James Hall Nasmyth (sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth) (19 August 1808 – 7 May 1890) was a Scottish engineer, philosopher, artist and inventor...
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    Creech for 100 guineas. For the edition, Creech commissioned Alexander Nasmyth to paint the oval bust-length portrait now in the Scottish National Portrait...
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    Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company, originally called The Bridgewater Foundry, specialised in the production of heavy machine tools and locomotives. It was...
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    a long-running boundary dispute). Much of it was to the 1791 design of Robert Adam, who died in 1792, just as building began. İts also the place where...
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  • Eleanor Morton, comedian James Hall Nasmyth, inventor of the steam hammer and the Nasmyth telescope Robert Nasmyth, dentist to Queen Victoria in Scotland...
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    Robert Nasmyth, an Edinburgh dentist with an international reputation for such work. Harry's brother John had served as dental apprentice to Nasmyth....
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    premolar tooth, unusual at that time. Goodsir's family were friendly with Robert Nasmyth, an Edinburgh dentist with an international reputation for such work...
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    mathematics. The following year he was apprenticed to the surgeon and dentist Robert Nasmyth, at 78 Great King Street in Edinburgh's New Town. This allowed him to...
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    (N) Robert Milne Murray (1855–1904) gynaecologist James Nasmyth (1808–1890), inventor of the steam hammer, monument by John Rhind (N) Robert Nasmyth FRSE...
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    he founded, together with Francis Brodie Imlach, Peter Orphoot and Robert Nasmyth, the Edinburgh Dental Dispensary in 1860. In 1862 Smith was elected...
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  • appointed Works Manager at James Nasmyth's Bridgewater Foundry in Patricroft near Manchester. He improved Nasmyth's design for a steam hammer, inventing...
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    with obstacles such as walls or equipment inside the observatory. The Nasmyth design is similar to the Cassegrain except the light is not directed through...
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    Newbigging and Others". Casemine.com. 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2023. "Robert Hamilton". Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 2023. Retrieved 12 February...
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  • Morton James Patrick Muirhead, Esq Hon. Sir John A. Murray, Lord Murray Robert Nasmyth, Esq Hon. Charles Neaves Lord Neaves The Earl of Northesk Lord Panmure...
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    Ballingall (1780 1855) William Dick (1793–1866). Dr Robert Knox (1791–1862) Robert Liston (1794–1847) Robert Nasmyth (1791-1870) James Syme (1799–1870) William...
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    of France and James Nasmyth of Britain over who had invented the machine. Bourdon had built the first working machine, but Nasmyth claimed it was built...
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  • In 1860, under the leadership of Dr John Smith and with the help of Robert Nasmyth and Francis Brodie Imlach, they founded the Edinburgh Dental Dispensary...
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    Dr. John Smith, with his friends Frances Imlach, Peter Orphoot and Robert Nasmyth, opened the Edinburgh Dental Dispensary at 1 Drummond Street in January...
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  • 1927–1938) George James Morris (April 1925–1938) Hon.Secretary 1925–1936 Robert Nasmyth (1949–March 1972) James Paton (1916–1938) Foundation Member John L....
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    painter Alexander Nasmyth. Jane Nasmyth was born in Edinburgh on 29 March 1788 to Barbara Foulis and Alexander Nasmyth. Alexander Nasmyth and Barbara Foulis...
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  • sculptor Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840), landscape painter Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831), landscape painter, son of Alexander Jane Nasmyth (1788–1867), landscape...
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    GWR Firefly Class (category Nasmyth, Wilson and Company locomotives)
    Built by Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company. The name is that of a Greek mythological warrior. See Achilles. Actaeon 1841–1868. Built by Nasmyth, Gaskell and...
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    print run of 425 copies with a frontispiece engraving of Robert Burns after Alexander Nasmyth by William Walker and Samuel Cousins. The portrait is unusual...
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  • Robert H. McNaught (born in Scotland[citation needed] in 1956[citation needed]) is a Scottish-Australian astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy...
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    problems in his method, Nasmyth abandoned the project after hearing Bessemer at the meeting. Bessemer acknowledged the efforts of Nasmyth by offering him a...
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    LT&SR 79 Class (category Nasmyth, Wilson and Company locomotives)
    remainder were ordered by the LMS. The five delivered in 1925 were built by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company, with the other thirty built by the LMS's Derby Works...
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    WAGR N class (category Nasmyth, Wilson and Company locomotives)
    Junction and on the Kalgoorlie-Boulder loop. Robert Stephenson & Co built a further twelve in 1898/99 and Nasmyth, Wilson & Co a further fifteen in 1901. In...
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    budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) both by Douglas Koshland and Kim Nasmyth in 1997. Cohesin is a multi-subunit protein complex, made up of SMC1, SMC3...
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