Fred Herbert Colvin (1867–1965) was an American machinist, technical journalist, author, and editor. He wrote, co-wrote, edited, or co-edited many periodical articles, handbooks, and textbooks related to engineering, machining, and manufacturing. His autobiography, Sixty Years with Men and Machines, provides a thorough and colloquial look into the decades of 1880 to 1950, giving insight into the culture of the Machine Age. (From Wikipedia)
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60 years with men and machines. (Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1947), by Fred H. Colvin and D. J. Duffin (page images at HathiTrust)
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Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: American Machinists' Handbook, and Dictionary of Shop Terms (second edition; New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co.; London: Hill Pub. Co., 1914), also by Frank A. Stanley (multiple formats at archive.org)
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- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: 60 years with men and machines. (Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1947), also by D. J. Duffin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: The aircraft handbook; a collection of facts and suggestions concerning the construction and care of planes, motors and instruments for those interested in modern aircraft (McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1928), also by Henry Fred Colvin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: The aircraft handbook; a collection of facts and suggestions concerning the constructiona and care of planes, motors and instruments for those interested in modern aircraft (McGraw, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Aircraft mechanics handbook. (McGraw-Hill book company, inc.; [etc., etc.], 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: American compound locomotives. (The Derry-Collard company, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: American machinist grinding book; modern machines and appliances, methods and results. (McGraw-Hill book company, 1912), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: American machinist grinding book : modern machines and appliances, methods and results (McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1908), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: American machinists' handbook and dictionary of shop terms; a reference book of machine-shop and drawing-room data, methods and definitions (McGraw-Hill, 1940), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: American machinists' handbook and dictionary of shop terms; a reference book of machine shop and drawing room data, methods and definitions (McGraw-Hill book Co., 1932), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: American machinists' handbook and dictionary of shop terms; a reference book of machine shop and drawing room data, methods and definitions (McGraw-Hill book company inc., 1926), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: American machinists' handbook and dictionary of shop terms; a reference book of machine shop and drawing room data, methods and definitions (Hill Publishing Company, 1908), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: American machinists' handbook and dictionary of shop terms : a reference book of machine shop and drawing room data, methods and definitions (McGraw-Hill, 1920), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Drawing room kinks (Hill Pub. Co., 1908), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Drill press kinks (Hill publishing company, 1908), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Drilling and surfacing practice. (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1948), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Drilling and surfacing practice. (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1936), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Drilling and surfacing practice : drilling, reaming, tapping, planing, shaping, slotting, milling, and broaching (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1943), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Emergency shop methods (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1945), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Engine lathe work; practical suggestions which will give the young machinist or apprentice the foundation principles of engine lathe work (Hill Pub. Co., 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Engineers arithmetic; a pocket book containing the foundation principles involved in making such calculations as comes [!] into the practical work of the stationary engineer. (The Derry-Collard Company; [etc., etc.], 1904), also by Walter Lee Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Gages and their use in inspection (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1942) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Gear cutting practice; methods of producing gears for commercial use (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1937), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Gear cutting practice; methods of producing gears for commercial use (McGraw-Hill, 1950), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Gear cutting practice : methods of producing gears for commercial use, including Wartime data supplement (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1943), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Grinding practice; typical machines and methods used in a wide variety of work (McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., 1937), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Jig and fixture kinks. (Hill publishing company, 1908), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Jigs and fitures; a reference book showing many types of jigs and fixtures in actual use, and suggestions for various cases (McGraw-Hill, 1922), also by Lucian Levant Haas (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Jigs and fixtures; a reference book showing many types of jigs and fixtures in actual use, and suggestions for various cases (McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1913), also by Lucian Levant Haas (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Labor turnover, loyalty and output; a consideration of the trend of the times as shown by the results of war activities in the machine shops and elsewhere (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1919) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Link motions, valve gears and valve setting. (New York, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Link motions, valve gears and valve setting : a practical treatise which explains the mysteries of valve setting. Shows the different valve gears in use, how they work and why. Piston and slide valves of different types and illustrated and explained (Norman W. Henley Pub. Co., 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Link motions, valves and valve setting (Derry-Collard ;, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Machine-shop arithmetic; shows how all shop problems are worked out and "why." Includes change gears for cutting any threads; drills, taps, shink and force fits; metric system of measurements and threads. Used by all classes of mechanics, apprentices, etc., etc. (The Norman W. Henley publishing co., 1917), also by Walter Lee Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Machine-shop arithmetic; shows how all shop problems are worked out and "why." Includes change gears for cutting any threads; drills, taps, shink and force fits; metric system of measurements and threads. (The Norman W. Henley publishing co., 1912), also by Walter Lee Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Machine shop calculations. (Hill publishing company, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Machine shop drawings, reading drawings, making shop sketches, laying out work (McGraw-Hill, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Machine shop mechanics : the why of things in the shop (McGraw-Hill, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Machine shop mechanics : the why of things in the shop (McGraw-Hill, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Machine shop primer. (McGraw-Hill book company, 1910), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Machine shop primer : an introduction to machine tools and shop appliances, with an illustrations, names and definitions (McGraw-Hill Book Company;, 1910), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Machine tools and their operation ... (McGraw-Hill, 1922), also by Frank Arthur Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Machinery. (The Industrial press, 1894), also by Lester Gray French (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: The machinist dictionary; the authoritative handbook of terms, definitions, and accepted standards of the machinist craft and industry. (Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp., 1956) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Manufacture of artillery ammunition (McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc.; [etc., etc.], 1917), also by Leon Pratt Alford, Robert Mawson, E. A. Suverkrop, and John Herbert Van Deventer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Milling machine kinks (Hill publishing company, 1908), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Planing, shaping and slotting (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1943) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Practical die-making; a collection from the latest information on dies and die-making (McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Practical perspective ; a treatise showing just how to make all kinds of mechanical drawings in the only practical perspective (isometric) ... (The Norman W. Henley Publishing Co., 1908), also by Frank Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Practical shop talks. A collection of letters on shop subjects which show by actual examples some of the existing methods of shop management and practice. (Press of Locomotive engineering, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Press tool kinks (Hill publishing company, 1907), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Press tool kinks (McGraw-Hill book company, 1908), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: The railroad pocket-book; a quick reference cyclopedia of railroad information. (The Derry-Collard company; [etc., etc.], 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Repair kinks (Hill, 1908), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Running a machine shop (McGraw-Hill, 1948), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Running a machine shop (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1941), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Running a milling machine (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1941) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Running an engine lathe : practical suggestions which will give the young machinist or apprentice the foundation principles of engine lathe work (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1941) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Screw machine kinks (Hill Pub. Co., 1908), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Screw thread kinks (Hill Pub. Co., 1908), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Starting a small machine shop (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1948) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Threads and thread cutting (The Derry-Collard company, 1903), also by Joseph M. Stabel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Toolmakers' kinks (Hill Pub. Co., 1908), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Turning and boring practice : modern machines, tools, and methods used in representative plants (McGraw-Hill, 1948), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Turning and boring practice; modern machines, tools, and methods used in representative plants, including wartime data supplement (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1943), also by Frank A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: United States rifles and machine guns; a detailed account of the methods used in manufacturing the Springfield, 1903 model service rifle; also descriptions of the modified Enfield rifle and three types of machine guns. (McGraw-Hill, 1917), also by Ethan Viall (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: Wartime data supplement to the American machinists' handbook. (McGraw-Hill, 1944) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: The working of steel, annealing, heat treating, and hardening of carbon and alloy steel (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1921), also by K. A. Juthe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: The working of steel, annealing, heat treating, and hardening of carbon and alloy steel (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1922), also by K. A. Juthe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert), 1867-1965: The Working of Steel: Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel, also by K. A. Juthe (Gutenberg ebook)
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