Wikisource:WikiProject The Samuel Smiles Project

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.

Over time it is hoped these texts can be Wikified to articles in Wikipedia, and a start can be made at including the illustrations.Apwoolrich 19:29, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

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Participants

1. Apwoolrich 19:29, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
2. DCDuring 17:49, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
3. Chris55 (talk) 09:58, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Self help topics

• Self-Help, London, 1859 (Project Gutenberg text)
• Character, London, 1871 (Project Gutenberg text)
• 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 (Telford only- Project Gutenberg text)
• 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. 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 (Project Gutenberg text)

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 (Bibliomania HTML text on which they claim copyright)
• A Publisher and his Friends. Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, London, 1891 (Project Gutenberg text)
• Jasmin. Barber, Poet, Philanthropist, London, 1891 (Project Gutenberg text)
• Josiah Wedgwood, his Personal History, London, 1894
• The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles, LLD, ed. T. Mackey, London, 1905