Let's Learn Together - Lindsay's Technical Books

This is an attempt to rebuild, at least part of, the Lindsay Publications catalog. It focused mainly upon books about the tools of the machine shop, steam engines, and other foundational technologies, with a particular emphasis on the practical. [For anyone that might be interested in physical copies, what is left of their old stock is still sold through a company called Your Old Time Bookstore.]

Some of the titles were old enough to be within the public domain. We shall gather as many of them as we can here. Unfortunately, the scans vary greatly in quality, from the superb to the barely readable. They are not sorted into any particular order yet, so please use the "Find" function of your browser to look for a specific topic. All of the books are freely downloadable unless it has [Borrow Only] next to it.

WARNING: Some of these books contain procedures that are inherently dangerous, or that would now be considered unsafe with more collective insight into those practices. Please use caution whenever attempting to apply any of the information. Its misuse could potentially be fatal! Cross-reference it against more modern research whenever possible and/or get assistance from those carefully trained in those subjects...Also, the material on alcohol is included for purposes other than drinking (e.g.: industrial processes).

Magazines

Articles from several old magazines where compiled into various Lindsay books.

• American Machinist Magazine (1877-2009)

• Power Engineering Magazine (1902-2013)

• Popular Mechanics Magazine (Misc. Issues)

• Work Magazine (1889-1892)

• Scientific American Supplement (1876-1919)

Books

• Railroad Shop Practice by Frank Stanley

• Practice and Theory of the Injector by Strickland Kneass

• A Catechism of High Pressure Or Non-condensing Steam Engines by Stephen Roper

• The Construction of a Gasoline Motor Vehicle by C. C. Bramwell

• The Assayer's Guide by Oscar Lieber

• Steam Engines - Principles and Practice Edited by Terrell Croft [reprinted as Essential Steam Power Library Volume 8]

• Model Engine-Making by John Pocock

• A series of textbooks by International Correspondence Schools [partially republished as The Essential Steam Power Library]

• The Boys' Book of Engine Building by A. Frederick Collins

• Model Engineering by Henry Greenly

• Elements of Machine Work by Robert Smith

• Advanced Machine Work by Robert Smith

• Accurate Tool Work by Leon Goodrich and Frank Stanley

• Modern Toolmaking Methods by Franklin Jones

• Metalworking by Paul Hasluck

• The Screw-Cutting Lathe by James Hobart

• Machine Shop Projects by South Bend Lathe Works

• How to Run a Lathe (1934 Edition) by South Bend Lathe Works

• How to Make an 8-inch Bench Lathe in the School Shop by South Bend Lathe Works

• Change Gear Devices by Oscar Perrigo

• Practical Mathematics for Home Study by Claude Palmer

• A Treatise on Gear Wheels by George Grant

• Gear Cutting Practice by Fred Colvin and Frank Stanley

• American Machinist Gear Book by Charles Logue and Reginald Trautschold

• Keep Your Lathe In Trim by South Bend Lathe Works

• Things That are Usually Wrong by John Sweet

• Machine Shop Projects by South Bend Lathe Works

• Handbook for Drillers by Cleveland Twist Drill Co.

• Machine Shop Methods by Lorus Milne [Borrow Only]

• Practical Forging and Art Smithing by Thomas Googerty

• The Photographic Negative by W. H. Burbank

• The Art and Practice of Silver Printing by William Abney & H.P. Robinson

• Photographic Cameras and Accessories by Paul Hasluck

• Wilson's Quarter Century in Photography by Edward Wilson

• The Ferrotype and How to Make It by Edward Estabrooke

• A Thousand and One Formulas by Sidney Gernsback

• Manual of Formulas by Raymond Wailes [Borrow Only]

• How to Cast Small Metal and Rubber Parts by William Cannon [Borrow Only]

• Photography in the Studio and Field by Edward Estabrooke

• Harper's Aircraft Book by A. Hyatt Verrill

• The Homebuilt Winery by Steve Hughes [Borrow Only]

• 507 Mechanical Movements by Henry T. Brown

• The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan [Borrow Only]

• The Making of Mirrors by the Deposition of Metal on Glass by The U.S. Bureau of Standards

• Moonshine! by Matthew Roley

• The Distillation and Rectification of Alcohol by William Brannt

• Seven Centuries of Brass Making by O.A. Kenyon

• A Charcoal Kiln Made of Cinder-Concrete Blocks by A. Richard Olson & Henry W. Hicock

• Hardening, Tempering, Annealing & Forging of Steel by Joseph Woodworth

• Brass & Alloy Founding by H.B. Maynard

• Practical Wood Pattern-Making by J. Robert Hall

• Forgecraft by Charles Philip Crowe

• Copper Work by Augustus Rose

• Machine Molding, Foundry Appliances, etc. by International Correspondence Schools

• Elementary Forge Practice by Robert Harcourt

• Wood Pattern Making by Herbert J. McCaslin

• 40 Power Tools You Can Make by Popular Mechanics [Borrow Only]

• The Founding of Metals by Edward Kirk

• The Art of Casting in Iron by Simpson Bolland

• The Watchmakers' Lathe by Ward Goodrich

• Strength of Materials by J.P. Den Hartog [Borrow Only]

• Mechanics by J.P. Den Hartog [Borrow Only]

• Aircraft Sheet Metal 1941 by U.S. Army

• Sheet-Metal Pattern Drafting and Shop Problems by James Daugherty

• 50 Metal Spinning Projects by James Reagan & Earl Smith

• How to Make a Dynamo by Alfred Crofts

• Five Acres and Independence by M.G. Kains [Borrow Only]

• Generators & Inverters by Steve Chastain [Borrow Only]

• Homebrew Wind Power by Dan Bartmann & Dan Fink [Borrow Only]

• Solenoids, Electromagnets, and Electro-Magnetic Windings by Charles Underhill

• Build Your Own Electric Vehicle by Seth Leitman and Bob Brant [Borrow Only]

• Beginning Hydroponics by Richard Nicholls [Borrow Only]

• Neon Signs by Samuel Miller and Donald Fink

[In Progress...]