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Henry Maudslay
(22 Aug 1771 - 14 Feb 1831)
British engineer and inventor who designed the metal lathe with slide-rest, and who developed his workshop and trained his employees to machine products with great accuracy.
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Science Quotes by Henry Maudslay (4 quotes)
Avoid complexities. Make everything as simple as possible.
— Henry Maudslay
As quoted in Joseph Wickham Roe, English and American Tool Builders (1916), 49.
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.
— Henry Maudslay
As quoted in Joseph Wickham Roe, English and American Tool Builders (1916), 48-49.
Get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the question, ‘What business has this to be there?’
— Henry Maudslay
As quoted in Joseph Wickham Roe, English and American Tool Builders (1916), 49.
How, indeed, can there be a response within to the impression from without when there is nothing within that is in relation of congenial vibration with that which is without? Inattention in such case is insusceptibility; and if this be complete, then to demand attention is very much like demanding of the eye that it should attend to sound-waves, and of the ear that it should attend to light-waves.
— Henry Maudslay
As quoted in William W. Speer, Primary Arithmetic: First Year, for the Use of Teachers (1902), 3.
Quotes by others about Henry Maudslay (1)
[In 18th-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.
In Science in History (1969), Vol. 2, 591.
See also:
- 22 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Maudslay's birth.
- Henry Maudslay - English and American Tool Builders (1916)
- Henry Maudslay and Modern Tools (1918)
- Henry Maudslay & the Pioneers of the Machine Age, by John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson (eds). - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
