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• Machinery -- Great Britain -- History

• A History of Mechanical Inventions (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1929), by Abbott Payson Usher (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of the First Locomotives in America (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by William H. Brown (HTML at catskillarchive.org)
• Pictorial History of the Locomotive (Chicago: Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., 1899), ed. by William Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown (1991), by Gordon Chappell (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Tamara Siroone Ketabgian (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Dynamics of Machinery (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, c1955), by Alfred R. Holowenko (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, by Charles Babbage
  • text files at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text
• On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (London: J, Murray, 1846), by Charles Babbage (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Utriusque Cosmi Maioris Scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica atque Technica Historia (2 volumes, in Latin; ca. 1617), by Robert Fludd
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Machinery's Encyclopedia: A Work of Reference Covering Practical Mathematics And Mechanics, Machine Design, Machine Construction And Operation, Electrical, Gas, Hydraulic, And Steam Power Machinery, Metallurgy, And Kindred Subjects in the Engineering Field (New York: Industrial Press; London: Machinery Pub. Co., 1917), ed. by Erik Oberg and Franklin D. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Audels Machinists and Tool Makers Handy Book (New York: T. Audel and Co., c1942), by Frank Duncan Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Audels Machinists and Tool Makers Handy Book (New York: T. Audel and Co., c1941), by Frank Duncan Graham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Machines at Work (Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, c1953), by Mary Elting, illust. by Laszlo Roth (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Steel (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences (partial serial archives)

• Engineering Elements of Farm Machinery (second printing; Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1954), by Roy Bainer, Robert Allen Kepner, and E. L. Barger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm Shop Practice (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1939), by Mack M. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compaction of Soil by Agricultural Equipment (revised edition of Bulletin #1881; Richmond, CA: Division of Agricultural Sciences, University of California, 1977), by W. J. Chancellor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Agricultural Process Engineering (first edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1955), by S. M. Henderson and R. L. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Theory and Application (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Mykel J. Kochenderfer (PDF at Stanford)

• Cast Bronze Bearing Design Manual (Cleveland: Cast Bronze Bearing Institute, c1960), by Harry C. Rippel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lubrication of Bearings: Theoretical Principles and Design (New York: Ronald Press, c1959), by E. Radzimovsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magnetic Bearings for Instruments in the Space Environment (technical memorandum 78048; Washington: NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1978), by Philip A. Studer (page images at HathiTrust)

• International Trade in Machinery Belting (US Dept. of Commerce Trade Promotion series #135; Washington: GPO, 1932), by E. G. Holt and R. H. Sanger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Direct and Alternating Current Machinery (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1963), by Jack Rosenblatt and M. Harold Friedman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Application of Tensors to the Analysis of Rotating Electrical Machinery (first edition (16 parts); Schenectady, NY: General Electric Review, c1938), by Gabriel Kron (page images at HathiTrust)

• Flying Machines: Construction and Operation, by William J. Jackman and Thomas Herbert Russell
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Progress in Flying Machines, by Octave Chanute (illustrated HTML at msstate.edu)
• A Project for Flying: In Earnest at Last! (New York: A. W. Macdonald, 1871), by Robert Hardley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Project for Flying: In Earnest at Last! (1871), by Robert Hardley (Gutenberg text)
• Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science: Essays and Addresses, by Simon Newcomb (Gutenberg text)

• A Book on Crane and Hoist Engineering (Muskegon, MI, 1937), ed. by George A. Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exposition of the Principles of Abbott's Hydraulic Engine (Boston: S. R. Hart, 1835), by John Abbott (page images at Google)

• Locomotive Engineering, and The Mechanism of Railways: A Treatise on The Principles and Construction of The Locomotive Engine, Railway Carriages, and Railway Plant, With Examples (2 volumes; London et al.: W. Collins, Sons, and Co., 1871), by Zerah Colburn and D. K. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• Optimum Design of Mechanical Elements (first edition; New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, c1961), by Ray C. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Machine Design (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1961), by Allen Strickland Hall, Alfred R. Holowenko, and Herman G. Laughlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Machine Design Projects (New York: Ronald Press Co., c1957), by J. P. Vidosic (page images at HathiTrust)
• Machine Design (third edition; Scranton: International Textbook Co., c1954), by Vladimir Leonidas Maleev and James B. Hartman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Design of Machine Members (third edition; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1951), by Alex. Vallance and Venton Levy Doughtie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Design of Weldments (Cleveland: J. F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation, 1963), by Omer W. Blodgett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical Mechanical Drawing and Machine Design, Self Taught (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., 1907), by Charles J. Westinghouse (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Tamara Siroone Ketabgian (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Elementary Kinematics of Mechanisms (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, c1962), by John R. Zimmerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kinematics and Dynamics of Plane Mechanisms (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1962), by Jeremy Hirschhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kinematics and Linkage Design (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961), by Allen Strickland Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leçons de Cinématique (2 volumes in French; Paris: Gauthier-Villars et cie, 1926-1927), by Raoul Bricard
  • Tome I (Cinématique Théorique): page images at Gallica
  • Tome II (Cinématique Apliquée): page images at Gallica
• Cinématique et Mécanismes (in French; Paris: A. Colin, c1921), by Raoul Bricard
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Traité de Cinématique (Mécanique Appliquée aux Machines, au Point de Vue Géométrique): ou, Théorie des Mécanismes (in French; Paris: Librairie Scientifique-Industrielle de L. Mathias, 1849), by Ch. Laboulaye
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Traité de Cinématique: ou, Théorie des Mécanismes (in French; Paris: Librairie Scientifique, Industrielle et Agricole de E. Lacroix, 1861), by Ch. Laboulaye
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Traité de Cinématique, Thérique et Pratique: ou, Théorie des Mécanismes (third edition, in French; Paris: Librairie du Dictionnaire des Arts et Manufactures, 1878), by Ch. Laboulaye and Charles Laboulaye (page images at Gallica)

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