Alexander Luchars () was an American publishing executive, originally from Scotland, who founded

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, a large publisher of scientific and technical content, such as textbooks and reference books. Luchars started a monthly magazine called ''Machinery'' in competition with other similar magazines in the metalworking field in 1894. (Although the history page on Industrial Press's own website says that ''Machinery'' was started "in about 1880", both the

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's catalog and the autobiography. of ''Machinery'' first chief editor, Fred H. Colvin, place its beginning in 1894.) In 1914, the first edition of ''

Machinery's Handbook ''Machinery's Handbook'' ''for machine shop and drafting-room; a reference book on machine design and shop practice for the mechanical engineer, draftsman, toolmaker, and machinist'' (the full title of the 1st edition) is a classic reference ...

'' was published.

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