Frases de James Nasmyth

James Hall Nasmyth fue un ingeniero, artista e inventor escocés, famoso por su desarrollo del martillo pilón de vapor. Co-fundador de Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company , se retiró a la edad de 48 años y se trasladó a Penshurst , donde se dedicó a sus aficiones favoritas: la astronomía y la fotografía. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. agosto 1808 – 7. mayo 1890
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James Nasmyth: Frases en inglés

“Our history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.”

Fuente: James Nasmyth engineer, 1883, p. 1
Contexto: Our history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. The sentiment of ancestry seems to be inherent in human nature, especially in the more civilised races. At all events, we cannot help having a due regard for the history of our forefathers. Our curiosity is stimulated by their immediate or indirect influence upon ourselves. It may be a generous enthusiasm, or, as some might say, a harmless vanity, to take pride in the honour of their name. The gifts of nature, however, are more valuable than those of fortune; and no line of ancestry, however honourable, can absolve us from the duty of diligent application and perseverance, or from the practice of the virtues of self-control and self-help.

“Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.”

Fuente: James Nasmyth engineer, 1883, p. 52 (in 2010 edition)

“We may fill our purses, but we pay a heavy price for it in the loss of picturesqueness and beauty.”

Fuente: James Nasmyth engineer, 1883, p. 153 (in 2010 edition)

“My first essay at making a steam engine was when I was fifteen. I then made a real working; steam-engine, 1 3/4 diameter cylinder, and 8 in. stroke, which not only could act, but really did some useful work; for I made it grind the oil colours which my father required for his painting. Steam engine models, now so common, were exceedingly scarce in those days, and very difficult to be had; and as the demand for them arose, I found it both delightful and profitable to make them; as well as sectional models of steam engines, which I introduced for the purpose of exhibiting the movements of all the parts, both exterior and interior. With the results of the sale of such models I was enabled to pay the price of tickets of admission to the lectures on natural philosophy and chemistry delivered in the University of Edinburgh. About the same time (1826) I was so happy as to be employed by Professor Leslie in making models and portions of apparatus required by him for his lectures and philosophical investigations, and I had also the inestimable good fortune to secure his friendship. His admirably clear manner of communicating a knowledge of the fundamental principles of mechanical science rendered my intercourse with him of the utmost importance to myself. A hearty, cheerful, earnest desire to toil in his service, caused him to take pleasure in instructing me by occasional explanations of what might otherwise have remained obscure.”

James Nasmyth in: Industrial Biography: Iron-workers and Tool-makers https://books.google.nl/books?id=ZMJLAAAAMAAJ, Ticknor and Fields, 1864. p. 337