Nasmyth
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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While he uses the Nasmyth work as his template, his Burns is younger, fresher faced and more vivacious than the original.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026
That man was Alexander Cunningham, a close friend of Burns who had become a custodian of the Nasmyth painting.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026
In fact, the photos were of detailed plaster models of the lunar surface that Nasmyth built from careful telescope observations.
From Nature • Apr. 24, 2018
“That certainly gave me a level of intuition about it that I otherwise would not have had,” Nasmyth says.
From National Geographic • Dec. 3, 2017
How about Henry Nasmyth, the English inventor of the steam piledriver, whose ideas were stolen by French machinists?
From The Book of Courage by Faris, John Thomson
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