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Digital Library
We have digitised thousands of early publications from 1833-1950 and these are available in PDF format for a small subscription.
General Engineering
The Engineer - (1856-1950)
Engineering - (1866-1950)
Automotive
Autocar - (1895-1915)
Automobile Engineer - (1910-1930)
Automotor Journal - (1896-1917)
Light Car and Cyclecar - (1912-1939)
Motor - (1902-1914)
Books
Life of Sir William Fairbairn by William Pole
Life of Robert Stephenson by William Pole
Life of Richard Trevithick by F. Trevithick
Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
The Evolution of the Parsons Steam Turbine by Alexander Richardson
Latest additions
- William Speirs Simpson
- Smith and Pearson
- Warrenpoint Shipyard Co
- Simpson Lever Chain Co
- Town - Warrenpoint
- Duratool
- Ceylon Tea and Coffee Co
- Tarless Fuel Syndicate
- Coal Research Syndicate
- Thomas W. Ward
- Inveresk Paper Co
- Caldwell
- Town - Inverkeithing
- Walter Carl Bergius
- South-Eastern Tar Distillers
- Bristol and West Tar Distillers
- Yorkshire Tar Distillers
- National Carbonising Co
- South-Eastern Gas Corporation
- Barnsley Main Colliery Co
- Shannon Water and Electric Power Co
- W. F. Cotton
- Alliance and Dublin Consumers Gas Co
- Coal-Economising Gas Co
- South Eastern Gas Corporation
- Samuel Joseph Ingram
- S. J. Ingram
- South-Western Gas Corporation
- Scotts of Nottingham
- Joseph William Buckley
- J. W. Buckley
- Falmouth Gas Co
- William Romans
- Apperly, Curtis and Co
- Albert Joseph Hoskins
- South Yorkshire Chemical Works
- Stroud Water Co
- William Netherway Westlake
- W. N. Westlake
- Alexander C. A. Harding