- Bridgewater Foundary begun
- residence near
- safety foundary ladle
- partner taken
- workshop lieutenants
- the strike
- marriage
- invents steam-hammer
- first adopted in France
- UK patented
- USA patented
- visit to France and Italy
- steam pile-driver invented and employed
- visit to Germany and Russia
- dannemora
- work at Bridgewater Foundry
- astronomical researches
- British Association at Edinburgh
- interview with the Queen and Prince Consort
- Trunnion turn-table telescope
- papers for Astronomical Society
- papers for Astronomical Society
- member of Enfield Small Arms Committee
- patent for puddling iron by steam
- correspondence with Bessemer
- retirement from business
- the Cottage in Kent
- visits to Edinburgh
- and the Continent
- willow-leaf objects on sun's surface
- willow-leaf objects on sun's surface
- Sir John Herschel at Hammerfield
- visit to Father Secchi, Rome
- publication of 'The Moon'
- dial of life
- Nasmyth, Mrs
- Nasmyth, Patrick