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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
- John Fownes
- Fownes Gloves
- Thomas Macdougall Smith
- Thomas McDougall Smith
- Joseph Fox Sharp
- J. Fox Sharp
- J. Fox Sharpe
- John Roxburgh Sharman
- J. Roxburgh Sharman
- William Lyon Browne
- W. Lyon Browne
- Fownes Forge and Engineering Co
- Norton Henry Humphrys
- Henry Fownes
- N. H. Humphrys
- F. and A. Fownes
- M. R. Horne
- Edward Wedlake Brayley
- E. W. Brayley
- G. M. Brayley
- 1839 Institution of Civil Engineers: New Members
- Edward Hooper (b.1861)
- 1922 Who's Who In Engineering: Name H
- Edward P. Hooper
- Frederick Murray Royle
- Fred M. Royle
- Richard F. Bowen
- Thomas A. Rose
- Percy St. John Bishop
- P. St. John Bishop
- Arthur Wells Robinson
- A. W. Robinson
- Charles Lorimer Hensman
- C. Lorimer Hensman
- William Hemingway
- W. Hemingway
- Frank Roberts (2)
- F. Roberts (3)
- Percy Edgar Harvey
- Frederick John Fownes