📚 Machinery

Books with machinery on their catalogue record, first published between 1858 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 23 works carrying the subject machinery in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 22,476 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]	United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents	1858	240
	Design of machine elements	Merhyle Franklin Spotts	1948	12
	Mechanical movements, powers and devices	Gardner Dexter Hiscox	1907	11
	The theory of machines	Thomas Bevan	1939	11
	Text-book of advanced machine work	Robert Henry Smith (machinist)	1915	10
	Mechanics of machines	Hannah, John	1958	10
	Machinery Vibration	Victor Wowk	1991	8
	How do you lift a lion?	Wells, Robert E.	1996	8
	Rise of the machines	Thomas Rid	2016	8
	Theory of machines	Louis Toft	1927	7
	Machines	Robert O'Brien	1964	7
	Mechanisms and dynamics of machinery	Hamilton H. Mabie	1957	6
	Testing machine tools	Georg Schlesinger	1940	4
	Direct and alternating current machinery	Jack Rosenblatt	1963	4
	Machine design	Aaron D. Deutschman	1975	4
	The how and why of mechanical movements	Harry Walton	1968	3
	Machines and how they work	David Burnie	1990	3
	Mechanics of machines, advanced theory and examples	Hannah, John	1964	2
	Farm machinery	David Armentrout	1995	1
	Valuation of plant and machinery	Kirit Budhbhatti	1999	1
	Basic machinery vibrations	Ronald L. Eshleman	1999	1
	MIGHTY MACHINES, Wise Guides	Discovery Kids	2001	1
	The clock & watch maker's guide to gear making--and other machines	Robert D. Porter	2006	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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