James Hall Nasmyth

Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘James Hall Nasmyth’

1

© Jules Verne Times Two / julesvernex2.com / CC-BY-SA-4.0.

‘Never Let Your Men Look Over the Hedge’ James Hall Nasmyth

Employees are the key to any entrepreneur’s success, and he must know them intimately, trust them completely and pay them generously.

Read

2

Pierre Louis (‘Henri’) Grevedon (1776-1860), via the National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: ? Public domain.

‘One of That Sort, Are You?’ James Hall Nasmyth

Henry Maudslay, the great engineer, had seen enough apprentices to last him a lifetime.

Read

3

John Neagle (1796–1865), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Ye’re Nae Smith! James Hall Nasmyth

A loyal Scotsman on the run from pro-English traitors disguised himself as a blacksmith’s apprentice, but soon gave himself away.

Read