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Publications (Library)
| Title | Contributors | Publisher | Year | BatchDescrip | Medium |
| Pedro Bernardo Villarreal de Bérriz (1669-1740): semblanza de un vasco precursor | Ruiz de Azúa y Martínez de Ezquerecocha, María Estibaliz | Fundacion Juanelo Turriano | Book | ||
| Sir William Fairbairn | Hayward, R A | North Western Museum of Science & Industry | Book | ||
| James Brindley, civil engineer, 1716-1772: born in the parish of Wormhill | Hunter, A L | Wormhill Well-Dressing Committee | Book | ||
| Memoir of Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom etc | Adams & Dart | 1843 | Facsimile reprint | ||
| Life story of an Essex lad | Mead, Isaac | A Driver & Sons | 1923 | Book | |
| Medal of Gold: a story of industrial achievement | Edgar, William C | Bellman Company, Minneapolis | 1925 | Book | |
| Samuel Crompton, 1753-1827: inventeur du metier a filer | Dobson & Barlow Ltd | 1927 | Book | ||
| Samuel Crompton, 1753-1827: the inventor of the spinning mule | Midgley, Thomas | Dobson & Barlow Ltd | 1927 | Book | |
| Leaves from my life (2 volumes) | O'Hagan, Henry Osborne | Bodley Head | 1929 | Book | |
| Reflections and rhymes of an old miller | Saunders, James Edwin | Hodder & Stoughton | 1938 | Book | |
| John Smeaton's diary of his journey to the Low Countries: 1755 | Smeaton, John; Titley, Arthur | Newcomen Society | 1938 | Book | |
| James Watt and the Industrial Revolution | Dickinson, Henry Winram; Vowles, H P | Longman | 1943 | Book | |
| Obituary: Mr Joseph Rank of Hull; Millionaire, industrialist and philanthropist | Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury | 1943 | November 15 (Monday) | Digital | |
| Mr Rank; a study of J Arthur Rank and British films | Wood, Alan | Hodder & Stoughton | 1952 | Book | |
| Robert Owen of New Lanark | Cole, Margaret | Batchworth Press | 1953 | Book | |
| Garret workshop of James Watt | Dickinson, Henry Winram | Her Majesty's Stationery Office | 1958 | Book | |
| John Heathcoat and his heritage | Allen, W Gore | Christopher Johnson | 1958 | Book | |
| History of corn milling, vol.4: Some feudal mills with memoir of the late Richard Bennett | Bennett, Richard; Elton, John | Burt Franklin, New York | 1960 | or later | Facsimile reprint |
| Two Netherlanders: Humphrey Bradley and Cornelis Drebbel | Harris, L E | W Heffer & Sons | 1961 | Book | |
| John Rennie, 1761-1821: the life and work of a great engineer | Boucher, Cyril T G | Manchester University Press | 1963 | Book | |
| Ernest Simon of Manchester | Stocks, Mary | Manchester University Press | 1963 | Book | |
| Arthur Woolf; the Cornish engineer 1766-1837 | Harris, T R | D Bradford Barton | 1966 | Book | |
| James Watt: craftsman & engineer | Dickinson, Henry Winram | Augustus M Kelley | 1967 | Book | |
| Joseph Bramah: a century of invention 1749-1851 | McNeil, Ian | David & Charles | 1968 | Book | |
| James Brindley: engineer 1716-1772 | Boucher, Cyril T G | Goose & Son | 1968 | Book | |
| Master and artisan in Victorian England: the unpublished diary of William Andrews; the autobiography of Joseph Gutteridge | Chancellor, Valerie E | Augustus M Kelley | 1969 | Book | |
| Life of Sir William Fairbairn, Bart | Fairbairn, William; Pole, William | David & Charles | 1970 | Book | |
| Sir Samuel Morland: diplomat and inventor, 1625-1695 | Dickinson, Henry Winram | W Heffer & Sons | 1970 | Book | |
| James Watt: inventor of a steam engine | Webb, Robert N | Franklin Watts | 1972 | Book | |
| Oliver Evans: a chronicle of early American engineering | Bathe, Dorothy; Bathe, Greville | Arno Press | 1972 | Facsimile reprint | |
| James Brindley: millwright and canal engineer, 1716-1772 | Bode, H | Brindley Mill Preservation Trust | 1972 | Book | |
| James Brindley | Bode, H | Shire Publications Ltd. | 1973 | Book | |
| Christchurch miller's boy | Cox, Reginald A | Dorset County Council | 1974 | Book | |
| Leeghwater: idealist en molenmaker | de Herder, Dirk; Monnikendam, Joep; Woestenburg, Hans | N.V. Drukkerij Edecea | 1975 | Book | |
| George Green: miller, Sneinton | Bowley, R M; Challis, L J; Phillips, David; Sheard, F W; Wilkins-Jones, Frieda M | Nottingham Castle | 1976 | Book | |
| John Taylor: mining entrepreneur and engineer 1779-1863 | Burt, Roger | Moorland Publishing | 1977 | Book | |
| Frans Derk Pigeaud 1892-1978 Obituary | Newcomen Society | 1978 | Vol 49 p173 | Article | |
| Marcel Barbier: meunier à Moutiers-en-Beauce: temoignage recueilli par le groupe de recherches sur les traditions populaires de Beauce | Barbier, Marcel | Le Vent Du Ch'min | 1980 | Book | |
| Oliver Evans: inventive genius of the American industrial revolution | Ferguson, Eugene S | Hagley Museum & Library | 1980 | Book | |
| Robert Owen of New Lanark 1771 - 1858; a bicentenial tribute | Butt, John; Donnachie, Ian; Hume, John R | Open Univesity in Scotland | 1980 | Offprint/Journal Supplement | |
| Robert Stone, miller of Pangbourne | Major, J Kenneth | TIMS | 1980 | Book | |
| Selected Papers of Boulton and Watt; The Engine Partnership, 1775–1825 | Tann, Jennifer | MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass | 1981 | Book | |
| John Smeaton FRS | Skempton, A W | Thomas Telford Ltd | 1981 | Book | |
| Leonardo the inventor | Dibner, Bern; Heydenreich, L H; Reti, Ladislao | Hutchinson | 1981 | Book | |
| Leonardo the scientist | Brizio, Anna Maria; Marinoni, Augusto; Zammattio, Carlo | Hutchinson | 1981 | Book | |
| Miller of Horncastle | Cussons, Eileen | Lincolnshire Life | 1982 | Book | |
| David Dale of New Lanark: a bright luminary to Scotland | McLaren, David J | Heatherbank press | 1983 | Book | |
| Pierre Roullet, la vie d’un meunier | Rivals, Claude | Editions Jeanne Laffitte | 1983 | Book | |
| Christopher Polhem 1661-1751: the Swedish Daedalus | Lindgren, Mikael; Sorbom, Per | Sveriges Tekniska Museum | 1985 | Book | |
| Thomas Telford: the acclaimed biography of the 'father of civil engineering' | Rolt, L T C | Penguin | 1986 | Book |