List of Illustrations

• Portrait of James Nasmyth
• Edinburgh Castle, From the Vennel
• Origin of the name "Naesmyth"
• Michael Naesmyth's House, Grassmarket
• Inversnaid Fort
• Naesmyth Family Tomb, Greyfriars
• Plan of Grassmarket
• The Bibler's Seat, Castle Rock
• Alexander Nasmyth, after Reinagle
• The First Steamboat
• The Family Tree
• No. 47 York Place, Edinburgh
• St. Bernard's Well
• Nelson's Monument
• Bow-and-String Bridges
• Mural Crown of St. Giles
• Doorhead, from an Old Mansion
• The Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh
• Sectional Model of Steam-Engine
• Expansometer
• Road Steam-Carriage
• Cooking Apparatus
• Collar-nut Cutting Machine
• Arrangement of the Machine
• Maudslay's "Lord Chancellor"
• Temporary Workshop at Edinburgh
• Factory Flat at Manchester
• Extemporised Shower-Bath
• Bridgewater Foundry
• Old Foundry Ladle
• Safety Foundry Ladle
• Bridgewater Foundry, completed
• Alexander Nasmyth, after a Cameo by Joseph
• Monument to Alexander Nasmyth
• First sketch of Steam Hammer
• Monk on Board
• Distant view of Vesuvius
• Steam Hammer at work
• Space to be enclosed at the Hamoaze
• Diagram of Steam Pile-Driver
• The Order for Dinner
• Dannemora Iron Mine
• Trollhätten Falls
• "The Fairies"
• "Fireside," Patricroft
• General Structure of Lunar Craters
• Pico, the Lunar Mountains
• Shrunken Apple and Hand
• Lunar Mountains and extinct Volcanic Craters
• Astrologer's Tower
• Large Telescope on Trunnion Turn-Table
• Hammerfield, Penshurst
• Sun spots and "Willow Leaf" objects