Engineering
He eventually moved south, and worked for Henry Maudslay before founding his own company in 1808 in Soho, London. In 1848, it became Napier & Son, when he added his son James Napier to the business partnership.
His engineering company produced machines for bullet-making, gun-boring and turning for a number of government arsenals, as well as coin-weighing machines for the Bank of England, two-cylinder printing presses (designed to print simultaneously on both sides of a sheet of paper) and a centrifuge for sugar manufacturing before turning to automobile manufacturing under his grandson Montague Napier. His machines were described as "delicate as any clock could be" source, and his printing press in particular earned praise by Thomas Curson Hansard.
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