User:Apwoolrich

My name is Tony Woolrich and I live in the UK. I began editing Wikipedia in June 2004.

My special field is the history of engineering and manufacturing in the time of the Industrial Revolution.

I was a contributor to the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and to the Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers, as well as specialist journals.

I am greatly interested in the history of encyclopædias and early technical books, industrial espionage during the Industrial Revolution and the history of machine tools.

I worked as a publisher's editor, and also as a consultant on engineering history.

Working on the Wikisource 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica project took up some of my time. I was also an Administrator on Wikisource.

I came away from Wikipedia in the late 2000s, being involved in other things. I have now returned and have begun picking up the pieces again, in particular Rees's Cyclopaedia and its contributors. I have posted a page about Charles Burney's music articles in Rees, with lists of them and his biographical articles about musicians.

When I am not here I volunteer at my local museum, Blake Museum. I retired at the end of 2018 after six years as Hon Curator, and since have co-edited the web site of the Bridgwater Heritage Group: www.bridgwaterheritage.org.uk

New articles I have written

 * 2004


 * Slide rest
 * Richard Roberts (engineer)
 * John Rennie (1761-1821) (Later merged into John Rennie the Elder)
 * Ephraim Chambers
 * Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
 * Rees's Cyclopaedia (1802-1819)
 * Lexicon Technicum
 * Cyclopedia
 * History and Technology (journal)
 * Useful art
 * Johann Beckmann
 * Descriptions des Arts et Métiers
 * Chambers's Encyclopaedia
 * Encyclopédie Méthodique
 * English Encyclopaedia
 * Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopaedia
 * Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
 * Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten
 * Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon
 * Pantologia
 * Olinthus Gregory
 * British Encyclopaedia
 * William Nicholson (chemist)
 * Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
 * John Farey, sr
 * Jeremiah Joyce
 * Conger (Publishing syndicate)
 * Sydenham Edwards
 * Wilson Lowry
 * Joseph Wilson Lowry
 * Chain pump
 * Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts
 * Table engine
 * Portsmouth Block Mills
 * Simon Goodrich
 * Reproduction fees
 * Twining Models
 * Ernest W. Twining
 * Queen Mary's Dolls' House
 * Rees's Cyclopaedia
 * John Farey, jr


 * 2005


 * A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers
 * Biographical Dictionary
 * British Biographical Index
 * Protext
 * Richard Bissell Prosser
 * Geometric lathe
 * James Fox (engineer)
 * Benjamin Hick
 * A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers
 * Fire insurance mark
 * Topping out
 * Janet E. Courtney


 * 2006


 * Beatrice Warde
 * May Lamberton Becker
 * Frederic Warde
 * Daniel Berkeley Updike
 * Books Across the Sea


 * 2012
 * June Zimmerman Fullmer
 * Charles Rochmont Aikin
 * Delabere Pritchett Blaine
 * Robert Bland
 * John Bonnycastle
 * John Clennell
 * Joseph Farey
 * John Landseer
 * Alexander Mackay (mathematician)
 * William Woodville
 * Andrew Strahan
 * Richard Watson Dickson
 * James Macartney (anatomist)
 * Edmund Turrell
 * Alexander Marcet
 * Thomas Milton
 * William Blair (surgeon)
 * Samuel Cooper (surgeon)
 * John Duncan (weaver)
 * William Pearson (astronomer)
 * Bracy Clark
 * Edward Coleman (veterinary surgeon)
 * Long articles in Rees's Cyclopaedia
 * Charles Taylor (calico printer and dyer)


 * 2013
 * List of long biographical articles on Rees's Cyclopaedia


 * 2014
 * The music articles in Rees's Cyclopaedia
 * Jean-Benjamin Francois de la Borde
 * Alexander Malcolm (writer on music)


 * 2015
 * Man and Music Series
 * Frank Mercer (writer on music)


 * 2016
 * List of general music articles in Rees's Cyclopaedia
 * List of music biographies in Rees's Cyclopaedia
 * List of music plates in Rees's Cyclopaedia
 * John Chubb (artist)
 * Joshua Gilpin (paper maker)


 * 2019
 * Bridgwater Town Mill


 * 2020
 * Marmaduke Overend (music theorist and organist)
 * William Henry Kerridge
 * Bridgwater Town Council