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==Further reading== * {{Colvin1947}} ''A memoir that contains quite a bit of general history of the industry.'' * {{citation | last = Floud | first = Roderick C. | year = 2006 | orig-year = 1976 | title = The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850β1914 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge, England | isbn = 978-0-521-02555-3 | lccn = 2006275684 | oclc = 70251252 }}. ''A monograph with a focus on history, economics, and import and export policy. Original 1976 publication: LCCN 75-046133, {{ISBN|0-521-21203-0}}.'' * {{Hounshell1984}} ''One of the most detailed histories of the machine tool industry from the late 18th century through 1932. Not comprehensive in terms of firm names and sales statistics (like Floud focuses on), but extremely detailed in exploring the development and spread of practicable interchangeability, and the thinking behind the intermediate steps. Extensively cited by later works.'' * {{Noble1984}} ''One of the most detailed histories of the machine tool industry from World War II through the early 1980s, relayed in the context of the social impact of evolving automation via NC and CNC.'' * {{Roe1937}}. ''A biography of a machine tool builder that also contains some general history of the industry.'' * {{Rolt1965}} * [[Thomas Ryder and Son|Ryder, Thomas and Son]], ''Machines to Make Machines 1865 to 1968'', a centenary booklet, (Derby: Bemrose & Sons, 1968)
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