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• The story of the engine : from lever to Liberty motor (Scribner, 1920), by Wilbur F. Decker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Contributions to the Centennial Exhibition (Printed by John Ross, 1876), by John Ericsson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Entwicklung der Dampfmachine : Eine Geschichte der Ortsfesten Dampfmaschine und der Lokomobile, der Schiffsmaschine und Lokomotive (J. Springer, 1908), by Conrad Matschoss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook of the collections illustrating marine engines. (H.M. Stationery off., 1935), by Science Museum (Great Britain), H. Philip Spratt, and George Leonard Overton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine engines and boilers (Published for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall, 1893), by George Charles Vincent Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marine engines and boilers (Published for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall, 1893), by George Charles Vincent Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Steam boilers, their history and development, giving an account of the earliest known examples of steam generators, down to the most modern steam boilers. (A. Constable, 1905), by H. H. P. Powles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fifty years of steam, a brief history of the Babcock & Wilcox company. ([Bartlett Orr press], 1931), by Babcock & Wilcox Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Hundertjährige Geschichte der Ersten Brünner Maschinen-Fabriks Gesellschaft in Brünn von 1821 bis 1921. (Eckert & Pflug, 1921), by Erste Brünner Maschinen-Fabriks-Gesellschaft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine (second revised edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1886), by Robert Henry Thurston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lives of the Engineers: Boulton and Watt; The Steam Engine (based on the 1904 J. Murray edition, with additional images and notes), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• The development of the philosophy of the steam-engine. An historical sketch (J. Wiley & sons, 1889), by Robert Henry Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Watt and the steam engine; the memorial volume prepared for the Committee of the Watt centenary commemoration at Birmingham 1919 (Clarendon press, 1927), by H. W. Dickinson, Rhys Jenkins, and Committee of the Watt Centenary Commemoration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lives of Boulton and Watt. : Principally from the original Soho mss. Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine (John Murray, 1865), by Samuel Smiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Entwicklung der Dampfmachine : Eine Geschichte der Ortsfesten Dampfmaschine und der Lokomobile, der Schiffsmaschine und Lokomotive (J. Springer, 1908), by Conrad Matschoss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical and descriptive anecdotes of steam-engines, and of their inventors and improvers (Wightman and Cramp, 1829), by Robert Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A descriptive history of the steam engine. (J. Knight and H. Lacey, 1824), by Robert Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Watt and the application of science to the mechanical arts; an inaugural address delivered in the University of Glasgow, November 11th, 1889 (J. Maclehose & sons, 1889), by Archibald Barr (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Watt and the steam engine. Philadelphia, American Sunday-school union. (Religious tract society, 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The steam engine, its origin and gradual improvement, from the time of Hero to the present day; as adapted to manufactures, locomotion and navigation (D. Appleton & co., 1840), by Paul Rapsey Hodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stuart's descriptive history of the steam engine. (Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1829), by Robert Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stuart's descriptive history of the steam engine. (John Chidley, 1831), by Robert Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire descriptive de la machine à vapeur (Malher et compagnie, 1827), by Robert Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der dampf; eine darstellung des zeitalters der dampfmaschine (W. Spemann, 1884), by A. Schroot (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the growth of the steam-engine. (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1895), by Robert Henry Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la machine à vapeur (G. Baillière et cie, 1880), by Robert Henry Thurston and Joseph Hirsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the original Soho mss. Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine. (John Murray, 1865), by Samuel Smiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposition et histoire des principales découvertes scientifiques modernes ... (V. Masson [etc.], 1855), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the steam-engine, from the second century before the Christian era. (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1860), by Robert Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Dampfmaschine : ihre kulturelle Bedeutung, technische Entwicklung und ihre grossen Männer (Julius Springer, 1901), by Conrad Matschoss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stuart's descriptive history of the steam engine. (J. Chidley, 1831), by Robert Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the growth of the steam-engine. (D. Appleton and company, 1884., 1884), by Robert Henry Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• "First steam ("Fire") engine in America. (Charles Bradley, 1929), by Leonor Fresnel Loree (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railway appliances in the nineteenth century : or the rail, steam, and electricity ; with illustrative anecdotes, engravings, and diagrams. (R. Yorke Clarke and Co., 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical and practical treatise upon elemental locomotion, by means of steam carriages on common roads : showing ... the rise, progress, and description of steam carriages; the roads upon which they may be made to travel ... (Printed for B. Steuart, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1832), by Alexander Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the original Soho mss. (J. Murray, 1865), by Samuel Smiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the original Soho mss. Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam-engine. (J. Murray, 1866), by Samuel Smiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la machine à vapeur (F. Alcan, 1888), by Robert Henry Thurston and Joseph Hirsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das 200-jährige jubiläum der dampfmaschine, 1706-1906. (B.G. Teubner, 1907), by Kurt Hering (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Cornish giant : Richard Trevithick, the father of the locomotive-engine (E. & F.N. Spon ;, 1913), by Edith Katherine Harper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The evolution of the steam locomotive (1803 to 1898), by George Augustus Nokes (Gutenberg ebook)
• James Watt und die Erfindung der Dampfmaschine (in German), by Georg Biedenkapp (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho Mss.: Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine, by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg ebook)
• Die Geschichte der Dampfmaschine bis James Watt (in German), by Max Geitel (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les Merveilles de la Locomotion (in French), by E. Deharme, illust. by B. Bonnafoux, A. Jahandier, and Adrien-Emmanuel Marie (Gutenberg ebook)

• Capital and steam-power, 1750-1800 (P.S. King & Son, 1923), by John Lord (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Milestones in the Mighty Age of Steam: The Grasshopper and the Corliss (Gutenberg ebook)

• The evolution of the Parsons steam turbine. (Offices of "Engineering,", 1911), by Alex. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• History and development of steam locomotion on common roads (E. & F. N. Spon, 1891), by William Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Development of the agricultural tractor in the United States. (Beltsville, Md., 1954), by Roy Burton Gray and American Society of Agricultural Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of the agricultural tractor in the United States (American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1956), by Roy Burton Gray and United States. Agricultural Research Service. Agricultural Engineering Research Branch (page images at HathiTrust)

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