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The following is a list of books and catalogs currently in our library collection.
We are in the process of building and enhancing our collection. If you have a book that you would like to sell about history of machinery and machine tools, please email me at ian@wildbuffalo.com with the details of the book, your asking price, and ordering information.
American steam tractors / Patrick W. Ertel
Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1997
ISBN: 0760300976
American Wood Working Machinery Co. thirteenth edition catalog / American Wood Working
Machinery Co.
Rochester, NY: American Wood Working Machinery Co., 1921
Animal-powered machines / J. Kenneth Major
Aylesbury: Shire, 1985
ISBN: 0852637101
Antique office machines : 600 years of calculating devices / Thomas A. Russo
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub. Ltd., 2001
ISBN: 0764313460 (hardcover)
Antique tractor bible: the complete guide to buying, using, and restoring old farm tractors / Spencer Yost
Osceola, WI: MBI Pub., 1998
ISBN: 0760303355
Appleton's Dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering, volume 1 and 2 / D. Appleton
and Company
New York: D. Appleton, 1869
Arithmetic of the steam boiler: a reference book showing the various applications of arithmetic to steam
boilers
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1913
Boilers, pipes and piping, pumps / Compiled and written by Hubert E. Collins
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1908
Browne & Sharpe Small Tools Catalog No. 31 / Browne & Sharpe
Providence, RI: Browne & Sharpe Mfg. Co., 1929
Cameron hydraulic data : a handy reference on the subject of hydraulics and steam / edited by C. C.
Heald
Liberty Corner, N.J.: Ingersoll-Dresser, 1995
Catalog no. 30 / Fleck Bros. Limited
Vancouver, BC: Fleck Bros. Limited,
Catalog no. 66, Charles Bond Company / Charles Bond Company
Philadelphia, PA: R. R. Donnelley, 1942
Catalogue 37: Tade catalogues from the 19th and 20th centuries / High Ridge Books
Rye, NY: High Ridge Books,
Catalogue 40: Tade catalogues from the 19th and 20th centuries / High Ridge Books
Rye, NY: High Ridge Books,
Catalogue 43: Trade catalogues from the 19th and 20th centuries / High Ridge Books
Rye, NY: High Ridge Books,
Catalogue A: mill and steam supplies / Horton Machine Works
Elmira, NY: Horton Machine Works, 1918
The catalogue of antique tools / Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools
Avoca, NY: Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools, 2002
The catalogue of antique tools: 1997 edition / Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools
Avoca, NY: Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools, 1997
A Century of traction engines, being an historical account of the rise and decline od an industry whose
benefits to mankind sere and are incalculable / W. J. Hughes
London: Hughes, 1970
Changing the shape of metals with an engine lathe
United States: Shell Oil Company, inc, 1946
Clock and watch escapements / Originally compiled in 1904 by The Keystone
Bradley, Il: Lindsay Publications, 1997
ISBN: 1559181907
Collecting and restoring old steam engines / Richard Evans
Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Tab Books, 1980
ISBN: 0830620613
The complete illustrated guide to joinery / Gary Rogowski
Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 2002
ISBN: 1561584010
A comprehensive handbook on uses and applications of the lathe / The Walker-Turner Company, Inc.
Plainfield, New Jersey: Walker-Turner Co., Inc, 1934
Cutting tools worked by hand and machine / by Robert H. Smith
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882
Deming pumps for hand and power, catalogue no. 26 / Harris Pump & Supply Co.
Pittsburgh, PA: Harris Pump & Supply Co., 1899
Design of machinery : an introduction to the synthesis and analysis of mechanisms and machines /
Robert L. Norton
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992
ISBN: 0079097022
The double-spindle hartness flat turret lathe / Jones & Lamson Machine Co.
Springfield, VA: Jones & Lamson Machine Company, 1917
Electric machines and power systems. Volume 1: electric machines / Syed A. Nasar
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995
ISBN: 0070459584
Electrical machinery: principles, operation, and management / by Terrell Croft
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1922
Elementary mechanical refrigeration : a simple and non-technical treatise / by Fred E. Matthews
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1912
Encyclopedia of American steam traction engines / editing and design by George H. Dammann
Sarasote, FL: Crestline Publishing Co., 1976
ISBN: 0912612096
Encyclopedia of antique tools & machinery / C. H. Wendel
Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2001
ISBN: 0873416074
Encyclopedia of mechanical engineering, volume 1: Machine shop work, shop lighting, and forging /
American Technical Society
Chicago: American Technical Society, 1908
Encyclopedia of mechanical engineering, volume V: Steam engines, indicators, valve gears, refrigeration
/ American Technical Society
Chicago: American Technical Society, 1908
Encyclopedia of mechanical engineering, volume VII: Drawing, machine design, index / American
Technical Society
Chicago: American Technical Society, 1908
Engineer's handy-book / by Stephen Roper
Philadelphia: Edward Meeks, 1892
Engineering machine tools and processes: a text-book for engineers, apprentices, and students in
technical institutions, trade schools, and continuation classes
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919
Engineering materials, machine tools and processes / by W. Steeds
London: Longmans, 1942
Engines 1900-02 / Articles from issues of American Machinist Magazine
Bradley, IL: Lindsay Publications, 2002
ISBN: 1559182814
Engines of 1899 / American Machinist Memories
[Bradley, IL]: American Machinist Memories, 2001
English and American tool builders / by Joseph Wickham
Bradley, IL: Lindsay Publications, 1987
ISBN: 0917914732
Facts about files / C. O. Oberg & Co.
Sweden: C. O. Oberg & Co., 1930
Fly-wheels
New York: The Industrial press, 1909
Full steam ahead : J. I. Case tractors & equipment 1842-1955 / David Erb and Eldon Brumbaugh
St. Joseph, Mich.: American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1993
ISBN: 0929355423
General hardware catalog no. "A" / Edw. K. Tryon Company
Philadelphia, PA: North American Press, 1939
General Mills Supplies, Dyestuff and Chemicals / Alden Speare's Sons & Co.
Boston: Alden Speare's Sons & Co., 1894
Gisholt turret lathe guide for care and tooling
Madison, Wis.: Gisholt Machine Company, 1917
Gisholt turret lathes / Gisholt
Madison, Wis.: Gisholt Machine Co.,
Grinding equipment and practice / by I.C.S. staff
Scranton, Pa: International Textbook, 1927
The handbook of turning: containing instructions in concentric, elliptic, and eccentric turning; also various
plates of chucks, tools, & instruments, and directions for using the eccentric cutter, drill, vertical cutter,
and circular rest; with patterns, and instructions for working them
London: Saunders & Otley, 1852
Hawkins' indicator catechism : a practical treatise / N. Hawkins
New York: Theo Audel & Co., 1900
Hawkins' indicator catechism : a practical treatise / N. Hawkins
New York: Theo Audel & Co., 1901
Helical and elliptic springs
New York: The Industrial press, 1912
A history of machine tools / Ian Bradley
Hemel Hempstead: Model and Allied Publications, 1972
ISBN: 0852421028
A history of machine tools, 1700-1910 / W. Steeds
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969
ISBN: 0198581246
The history of old time farm implement companies and the wrenches they issued including buggy, silo,
cream separator, windmill, and gas engine companies / Pembroke Thom Rathbone
Marsing, Idaho: P.T. Rathbone, 1999
ISBN: 096730010X
History of the lathe to 1850 : a study in the growth of a technical element of an industrial economy /
Robert Woodbury
Cambridge, Massachusetts: M.I.T. Press, 1961
A history of the machine / by Robert Soulard
London: Leisure Arts Limited,
Holbrook catalog no. 155 / Holbrook, Merrill, and Stetson
San Francisco, CA: Holbrook, Merrill, and Stetson,
Holtzapffel's turning and mechanical manipulation, volume II: construction, action, and application of
cutting tools / Charles Holtzpffel
Mendham, N.J.: Astragal Press, 1993
ISBN: 1879335395
Holtzapffel's turning and mechanical manipulation, volume II: construction, action, and application of
cutting tools / Charles Holtzpffel
Mendham, N.J.: Astragal Press, 1993
ISBN: 1879335395
How to rebuild and restore farm tractor engines / Spencer Yost
Osceola, WI: MBI Pub, 2000
ISBN: 0760306613
Illustrated catalogue of piston and rotary fire engines / American Wood Working Machinery Co.
Seneca Falls, NY: American Fire Engine Company, 1894
Landmarks on the iron road : two centuries of North American railroad engineering / William D. Middleton
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999
ISBN: 0253335590
Lathe design, construction and operation with practical examples of lathe work / Oscar Perrigo
Bradley, Illinois: Lindsay Publications, 1984
ISBN: 1917914180
Lathework: manual, semi-automatic, automatic / Prepared by a staff of technical experts under the
direction of E. Molloy
Brooklyn, NY: Chemical Publishing Company, 1941
Lives of the engineers. Early Engineering. Vermuyden. Myddelton. Perry. James Brindley. / by Samuel
Smiles
London: Murray, 1904
Machine shop tools and shop practice / William H. Van Dervoort
New York: Munn & Co. Inc., 1916
Machine tool collection : catalogue of exhibits / Science Museum with historical introduction by K.R.
Gilbert
London: H.M.S.O., 1966
Machine tool operation, part 2: shaper, planer, milling machine, grinding machine, hydraulics, metal
band saws, metallurgy, cutting fluids / Henry D. Burghardt, Aaron Axelrod and James Anderson
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960
Machine tools and workshop practice for engineering students and apprentices / by Alfred Parr
New York: Longmans, 1905
Machinery and mechanical devices : a treasury of nineteenth-century cuts / selected and arranged by
William Rowe
New York: Dover, 1987
ISBN: 0486254453 (pbk.)
Makers of American machinist's tools : a historical directory of makers and their tools / Kenneth L. Cope
Mendham, N.J.: Astragal Press, 1994
ISBN: 1879335557
Manual of the Hand Lathe / by Egbert P. Watson
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1876
Maxims and instructions for the boiler room; useful to engineers, firemen & mechanics, relating to steam
generators, pumps, appliances, steam heating, practical plumbing, etc / by N. Hawkins
New York: Theo. Audel, 1903
Men and machines / Stuart Chase
New York: Macmillan, 1930
Merryweathers' complete list of hose pipes, as supplied to the British government for the admiralty and
war office [. . .] / Merryweathers
London: Merryweather & Sons' (Firm),
Metal cutting tool handbook / Metal Cutting Tool Institute
New York: Metal Cutting Tool Institute, 1949
Metalworking: a book of tools, materials, and processes for the handyman
Bradley, IL: Lindsay Publications, 1994
ISBN: 1559181265
Milling machines and equipment / by I.C.S. staff
Scranton, Pa.: International Textbook, 1927
Modern machine shop construction equipment and management / by Oscar E. Perrigo
New York: The Norman W. Henley publishing company, 1906
The modern machine shop: its tools, practice, and design, vol. 1 / by Rankin Kennedy
London: Caxton Publishing Company, 1908
The modern machine shop: its tools, practice, and design, vol. 2 / by Rankin Kennedy
London: Caxton Publishing Company, 1908
The modern machine shop: its tools, practice, and design, vol. 3 / by Rankin Kennedy
London: Caxton Publishing Company, 1908
The modern machine shop: its tools, practice, and design, vol. 4 / by Rankin Kennedy
London: Caxton Publishing Company, 1908
Modern machine-shop practice, vol. 1
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887
Modern machine-shop practice, vol. 2
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887
Modern metalworking / by John R. Walker
South Holland, Ill.: Goodheart-Willcox Co., 1985
ISBN: 0870065092
The modern practice of American machinists [and] engineers, including the construction, application,
and use of drills, lathe tools, cutters for boring cylinders and hollow work generally, with the most
economical speed for the same; the results verified by actual practice at the lathe [...]
Philadelphia: Baird, 1874
Modern shop practice: a general reference work. Volume 1: Machine shop practice, production, and
manufacturing / editor-in-chief, Howard Monroe Raymond ; assisted by a corps of mechanical engineers,
designers, and specialists in shop methods and management
Chicago: American Technical Society, 1927
Modern shop practice: a general reference work. Volume 2: Management, metallurgy, welding, die-
staming / editor-in-chief, Howard Monroe Raymond ; assisted by a corps of mechanical engineers,
designers, and specialists in shop methods and management
Chicago: American Technical Society, 1927
Modern shop practice: a general reference work. Volume 3: Tool-making, jigs, fixtures, tool design, dies,
gages / editor-in-chief, Howard Monroe Raymond ; assisted by a corps of mechanical engineers,
designers, and specialists in shop methods and management
Chicago: American Technical Society, 1927
Modern shop practice: a general reference work. Volume 4: Blue paint, reading, mathematics, physics /
editor-in-chief, Howard Monroe Raymond ; assisted by a corps of mechanical engineers, designers, and
specialists in shop methods and management
Chicago: American Technical Society, 1927
Modern shop practice: a general reference work. Volume 5: Pattern making, mechanical drawing / editor-
in-chief, Howard Monroe Raymond ; assisted by a corps of mechanical engineers, designers, and
specialists in shop methods and management
Chicago: American Technical Society, 1927
The new American machinist's handbook / edited by Rupert Le Grand
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955
ISBN: 070370656
New catechism of the steam engine : with chapters on gas, oil and hot air engines / by N. Hawkins
New York: T. Audel & co, 1904
The new encyclopedia of machine shop practice : a guide to the principles and practice of machine
shop procedure / edited by George W. Barnwell
New York: Wm. H. Wise, 1941
The Non Rotative Beam Engine / by Maurice Kelly
Somerset: Camden Miniature Steam Services, 2002
ISBN: 0953652335
Operation of machine tools: milling machines, part I / by Franklin D. Jones
London: Industrial Press, 1912
Operation of machine tools: milling machines, part II / by Franklin D. Jones
London: Industrial Press, 1912
Ornamental turning : a work of practical instruction in the above art ; with numerous engravings and
autotype plates / J. H. Evans
Mendham, N.J.: Astragal Press, 1993
ISBN: 1879335352
The Power guide : a catalogue of small scale power equipment / with introductions by Wim Hulscher and
Peter Fraenkel
London: Immediate Technology Publications, 1994
ISBN: 1853391921
Practical electricity as applied to electric railways: vol. 3: power stations, steam engines and biolers, gas
engines / editor-in-chief Sidney Aylmer-Small
Chicago: National Institute of practical mechanics, 1908
Practical instructions relating to the construction and use of the steam engine indicator, in two parts
Boston: Crosby steam gage and valve company, 1896
The practice of hand-turning in wood, ivory, shell etc ... also, an appendix on ornamental turning. / by
Francis Campin
London: E & F. N. Spon, 1883
Precision Tools / Pratt and Whitney Co.
Hartford, Connecticut: Pratt and Whitney Co., 1911
The principles and practice of ornamental or complex turning / by John Jacob Holtzapffel; with a new
intriduction by Robert Austin
New York: Dover, 1973
ISBN: 0486265676
Pump application engineering / Tyler G. Hicks, T. W. Edwards.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971
ISBN: 070287414
Pumps and hydraulic rams / edited by Paul N. Hasluck
Bradley, Il: Lindsey Publications, 2001
ISBN: 155918261x
Quarterly journal of the amateur mechanical society / Amateur Mechanical Society
London: Trubner & Co., 1871
Reinforced concrete design handbook of the American Concrete Institute, Detroit, Michigan / reported by
Committee 317 ; A.J. Boase, author-chairman, H.P. Bigler ... [et al.]
[Detroit]: Published cooperatively by American Concrete Institute, Portland Cement Association,
Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute, Rail Steel Bar Association, 1940
Report on power and machinery employed in manufactures : embracing statistics of steam and water
power used in the manufacture of iron and steel, machine tools and wood-working machinery, wool and
silk machinery, and monographs on pumps and pumping engines, manufacture of engines and boilers,
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888
ISBN: Reprinted by Lindsay Pubolications,
Bradley IL, 1994
Rogers machinists guide : a practical illustrated treatise on modern machine shop practice / by William
Rogers
New York: T. Audel, 1913
Rostand marine hardware, catalog no. 14 / Rostand Manufacturing CompanyMilford, Conn.: Rostand Manufacturing Company, 1953
Seaboard Air Line Railway : steam boats, locomotives, and
history / by Richard E. Prince
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002
ISBN: 0253336953
Shafting, pulleys, belting, rope transmission and shaft governors / Compiled and written by Hubert E.
Collins
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1908
Sheet metal machine processes / Claude J. Zinngrabe, Fred W. Schumacher
Albany: Delmar Publishers, 1975
ISBN: 0827302223
Shop theory
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974
ISBN: 0070016127
Six simple pumps : a construction guide / edited by Margaret Crouch
Arlington, Va: Volunteers in Technical Assistance, 1983
ISBN: 0866191666
Spons' engineers' and contractors' illustrated book of prices of machines, tools, ironwork, and
contractors' material, and engineers' directory for 1880-81 / E. & F. N. Spon
New York: E & F. N. Spon, 1880
Standard handbook of machine design / editors-in-chief, Joseph E. Shigley, Charles R. Mischke
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996
ISBN: 0070569584
Stationary engine driving: a practical manual / by Michael Reynolds
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1892
Stationary steam engines of Great Britain, the national photographic collection: Volume 1: Yorkshire /
George Watkins
Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Landmark, 2000
ISBN: 190152289x
Stationary steam engines of Great Britain, the national photographic collection: Volume 2: Scotland,
Cumberland, Co Durham, and Northumberland / George Watkins
Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Landmark, 2000
ISBN: 190152289x
Stationary steam engines of Great Britain, the national photographic collection: Volume 3.1: Lancashire
/ George Watkins
Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Landmark, 2000
ISBN: 190152289x
Stationary steam engines of Great Britain, the national photographic collection: Volume 3.2: Lancashire
/ George Watkins
Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Landmark, 2000
ISBN: 190152289x
Stationary steam engines of Great Britain, the national photographic collection: Volume 4: Wales,
Cheshire, and Shropshire / George Watkins
Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Landmark, 2000
ISBN: 190152289x
Stationary steam engines of Great Britain, the national photographic collection: Volume 5: the North
Midlands / George Watkins
Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Landmark, 2000
ISBN: 190152289x
Stationary steam engines of Great Britain, the national photographic collection: Volume 6: the South
Midlands / George Watkins
Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Landmark, 2000
ISBN: 190152289x
Stationary steam engines of Great Britain, the national photographic collection: Volume 7: the South and
South West / George Watkins
Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Landmark, 2000
ISBN: 190152289x
Steam Boilers / Terrell Croft, editor
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1922
The steam engine indicator and its use / by William Barnet Le Van
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1896
The steam engine indicator: directions for the selection, care, and use of the instrument and the analysis
and computation of the diagram / Joseph Hendershot
New York: The Power Publishing Comapnay, 1898
Steam engine principles and practice / Terrell Croft, editor
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1922
Steam power plant auxiliaries and accessories / Terrell Croft, editor
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1923
Steam tractors / Hans Halberstadt
Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International Publishers & Whoesalers, 1996
ISBN: 0760301409
Steam-turbine principles and practice / Terrell Croft, editor
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1923
The Tesla Disc Turbine / W. M. J. Cairns
Somerset: Camden Miniature Steam Services, 2001
ISBN: 0953652327
Tools, chucks and fixtures : a comprehensive and detailed treatise covering the design and use of cutting
tools and holding devices employed in turning and boring operations in modern manufacturing plants for
obtaining accuracy and increasing production
New York: The Industrial Press, 1915
Tools for the job: a history of machine tools to 1950 / L. T. C. Rolt
London: H.M.O.S., 1986
ISBN: 0112904335
A treatise on milling and milling machines / The Cincinnati Milling Machine Co.
Bradley, Il: Lindsay Publicatons, 1990
ISBN: 1559180358
Turning and boring; a specialized treatise for machinists, students in industrial and engineering schools,
and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, including modern practice with engine lathes, turret
lathes, vertical and horizontal boring machines. / by Franklin D. Jones
New York: Industrial press, 1914
Turning and mechanical manipulation, volume 1: Materials, their differences, choice, and preparation / by
Charles Holtzapffel
London: Holtzapffel & Co., 1843
Turning and mechanical manipulation, volume 2: The principles of cutting tools / by Charles Holtzapffel
London: Holtzapffel & Co., 1843
Turning and mechanical manipulation, volume 3: Abrasive and miscellaneous processes / by Charles
Holtzapffel
London: Holtzapffel & Co., 1843
Turning and mechanical manipulation, volume 4: the principles and practice of hand or simple turning /
by Charles Holtzapffel
London: Holtzapffel & Co., 1843
Turning and mechanical manipulation, volume 5: the principles and practice of ornamental or complex
turning / by John Jacob Holtzapffel
London: Holtzapffel & Co., 1843
Turning lathes: a manual for technical schools and apprentices; a guide to turning, screw-cutting, metal-
spinning, ornamental turning, etc. / edited by James Lukin
London: E & FN Spon, 1888
Turret lathe practice: a treatise on the application of horizontal and vertical turret lathes to chuck and bar
work, accompanied by numerous illustrations showign approved tooling equipments for a large variety of
operations from actual practice / by Erik Oberg
New York: Industrial Press, 1923
Turret lathes for all trades / H. W. Ward and Co.
Birmingham: H. W. Ward and Co., 1952
Twenty years with the indicator. Being a practical text-book for the engineer or the student. / by Thomas
Pray, Jr.
Boston: American Steam Gauge and Valve Manufacturing Co., 1909
The U. S. machine tool industry from 1900 to 1950 / by Harless D. Wagoner
Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press, 1968
Windmills, bridges & old machines : discovering our industrial past / David Weitzman
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982
ISBN: 0684174561
