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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==
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;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]]
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;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]]

;2024
*[[John Burland Chubb]]

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