Author:Samuel Smiles

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Samuel Smiles - (1812 – 1804)

Works

Self help topics

• Self-Help, London, 1859
• Character, London, 1871
• Thrift, London, 1875
• Duty, London, 1880
• Life and Labour, London 1887

Biographical works

• The Life of George Stephenson, London, 1857
• The Story of The Life of George Stephenson, London, 1859 (abridgement of the above)
• Brief biographies, Boston, 1860 (articles reprinted from periodicals such as the Quarterly Review)
• Lives of the Engineers, 3 vol, London 1862
  • Vol 1, Early engineers - James Brindley, Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Sir Hugh Myddleton, Capt John Perry
  • Vol 2, Harbours, Lighthouses and Bridges - John Smeaton and John Rennie]]
  • Vol 3, History of Roads - John Metcalfe and Thomas Telford
• Industrial Biography, London, 1863

Iron and Civilisation; Beginning of the iron-manufacture in Britain; Iron smelting by pit coal - Dud Dudley; Andrew Yarranton; Coalbrookdale ironworks- The Darby and the Reynoldses; Invention of cast steel- Benjamin Huntsman; The invention of Henry Court; The Scotch iron manufacture-Dr Roebuck-David Mushet; Invention of thr Hot Blast-James Beaumont Neilson; Mechanical Invention and Inventors; Joseph Bramah; Henry Maudslay; Joseph Clement; Fox of Derby-Murray of Leeds-Roberts and Whitworth of Manchester; James Nasmyth; William Fairbairn.

• Boulton and Watt, London, 1865
• The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches and Industries in England and Ireland, London, 1867
• Lives of the Engineers, new ed. in 5 vols, London, 1874

(includes the lives of Stephenson and Boulton and Watt)

• Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, London, 1875
• George Moore, Merchant and Philanthropist, London & New York, 1878
• Robert Dick, Baker of Thurso, Geologist and Botanist, London, 1878
• Men of Invention and Industry, London, 1884

Phineas Pett, Francis Petit Smith, John Harrison, John Lombe, William Murdock, Frederic Koenig,The Walter family of The Times, William Clowes, Charles Bianconi, and chapters on Industry in Ireland, Shipbuilding in Belfast, Astronomers and students in humble life

• James Nasmyth, engineer, an autobiography, ed. Samuel Smiles, London, 1885
• A Publisher and his Friends. Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, London, 1891
• Jasmin. Barber, Poet, Philanthropist, London, 1891
• Josiah Wedgwood, his Personal History, London, 1894
• The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles, LLD, ed. T. Mackey, London, 1905