• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_de_Caus
• http://www.moto-histo.com/Ev_G/decaus.htm
• http://www.ehess.fr/fr/enseignement/enseignements/2007/ue/1068/
• http://www.normannia.info/pdf/travers1847.pdf
• Salomon de Caus ou la découverte de la vapeur par Julien Travers - Caen chez Hardel - 1847

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Papin
• http://mendeleiev.cyberscol.qc.ca/chimisterie/9703/KAuclair.html
• http://www.aquadesign.be/news/article-1748.php
• http://huguenots-france.org/france/celebrites/papin.htm
• http://perso.orange.fr/joel.puissant/persb/papin.html

• http://www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk/Worcester.html
• http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/brown/chpt3.html
• http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wood-NuttallEncyclopaedia/w/worcestermarquisof.html

• http://visite.artsetmetiers.free.fr/savery.html
• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsavery1.htm
• http://library.thinkquest.org/C006011/english/jsites/steam_thomas_savery.php3?v=2

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Theophilus_Desaguliers
• http://pollagoras.free.fr/auteurs/a_desaguliers/desaguliers.htm

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt
• http://perso.orange.fr/rue_du_petit_train/personnages/watt-james.htm
• http://www.infoscience.fr/histoire/biograph/biograph.php3?Ref=114
• http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/carnegie/
• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCwatt.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Boulton
• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCboulton.htm
• http://www.birminghamuk.com/matthewboulton.htm 

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ron_d'Alexandrie
• http://www.inrp.fr/she/instruments/instr_hydros_fontaine_heron.htm
• http://www.stewart-museum.org/Nollet/alx.html

Giovanni Battista Della Porta (1535-1615)

• http://www.apprendre-en-ligne.net/crypto/porta/biographie.html

• Inventeur du moulinet à vapeur en 1629, ancêtre de la turbine à vapeur
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Branca
• http://www.answers.com/topic/giovanni-branca

• http://level2.phys.strath.ac.uk/ScienceOnStreets/williammurdoch.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Murdoch

• Ecrivain écossais, biographe de la vie des Stepenson
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Smiles
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1882smiles.html

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
• http://www.infoscience.fr/histoire/portrait/newton.html
• http://www.bibmath.net/bios/index.php3?action=affiche&quoi=newton
• http://hebergement.ac-poitiers.fr/c-fr-poitiers/newton/
• http://www.cvm.qc.ca/ccollin/portraits/newton.htm
• http://www.astrofiles.net/article21.html
• http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Darwin

• http://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/read-nathan.html
• http://www.answers.com/topic/nathan-read

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Evans
• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bloliverevans.htm
• http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/evans/
• http://famousamericans.net/oliverevans/
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/evans_hi.html

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Trevithick
• http://www.techno-science.net/?onglet=glossaire&definition=15840
• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAtrevithick.htm
• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6914/trevie.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Vivian
• http://www.answers.com/topic/andrew-vivian

• http://www.gsk58.dial.pipex.com/symington/index.shtml
• http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9500706
• http://www.gsk58.dial.pipex.com/symington/index.shtml

• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad.htm
• http://www.stephensonloco.fsbusiness.co.uk/sls_britloc2.htm

• http://www.themagicofcornwall.com/Pages/history/gurney.htm

• http://www.hevac-heritage.org/victorian_engineers/sir_goldsworthy_gurney/sir_goldsworthy_gurney.htm

• http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2052.htm

• http://www.bopcris.ac.uk/bopall/ref5158.html

• http://www.histomobile.com/histomob/prespil.asp?meteo=455&lan=1
• http://livre.inventeur.info/search-inventeur.php3?mots=Walter+Hancock
• http://www.locomobile.charitydays.co.uk/Trust/page11.html

• http://www.kwic.com/~davus/full_review/automobile.htm
• http://www.oldandsold.com/articles02/article1040.shtml

• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_john_stephens.htm

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAhedley.htm
• http://users.skynet.be/tintinpassion/VOIRSAVOIR/Locos/pages_Locos/03_Locos.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hedley
• http://www.answers.com/topic/william-hedley
• http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9039794/William-Hedley

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephenson
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephenson
• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAstephensonG.htm
• http://www.techno-science.net/?onglet=glossaire&definition=15836
• http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/brown/chpt7.html
• http://www.yfolire.net/sais/definition.php?code=stephens

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAstephensonR.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephenson
• http://en.structurae.de/persons/data/index.cfm?ID=d000036

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fairbairn
• http://fr.structurae.de/persons/data/index.cfm?ID=d000271