“ This project has the aim of having all the texts of Samuel Smiles's writings on Wikisource. A number of titles are already on Project Gutenberg and elsewhere, but Lives of the Engineers is not for some reason. A start has been made with Men of Invention and Industry. ”

“ Industrial Biography, London, 1863 (Project Gutenberg text) Includes lives of Andrew Yarranton, Dud Dudley, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Clement, etc.. Boulton and Watt, London, 1865 The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches and Industries in England and Ireland, London, 1867 Lives of the Engineers, new ed. ”