Title: Engineering heritage
Description: An excellent history of mechanical and manufacturing engineering written in a straightforward language requiring little technical knowledge. Many fascinating old photographs, paintings and sketches support the articles.
Incidentally, Volume II was published in 1966
Subjects: Applied Mechanics, History, Mechanical engineering, Engineers
People: Charles Parsons, William George Armstrong, James Watt, Richard Arkwright
Time periods: From earliest history to 1950s