- his workshop
- his graphic language
- his graphic language
- journey to Stirling
- visit to London
- paints Elgin and Castle Grant
- visits Manchester and Bridgewater Foundary
- death
- Nasmyth James
- born
- left-handed
- brother Patrick
- the French prisoners
- entry of the Black Watch
- the Calton Hill
- chimes of St. Giles
- marketing
- marketing
- school-days
- at High School
- Sir W. Scott
- collecting period
- mechanical pursuits
- school friendships
- learns chemistry
- learns drawing
- walks round Edinburgh
- George IV's visit
- great fires
- visit to Stirling
- model of steam-engine
- School of Arts classes
- brass moulding in bedroom
- makes a working steam-engine
- expansometer
- road steam-carriage
- taken on as assistant at Maudslay's
- trip to Richmond
- rudimentary screws
- cooking apparatus
- collar-nut cutting machine
- trip to Liverpool and manufacturing districts
- walk to London
- leaves Maudslay and Field
- workshop in Edinburgh
- Liverpool revisited
- Manchester
- takes factory flat
- first order
- trip to Castle Grant
- flat overloaded
- takes land at Patricroft