The Steam Engine Makers Database

This database contains information about the individual members of the Steam Engine Makers' Society, an early British trade union, between 1835 and 1876.

• Introduction to the Steam Engine Makers' Society
• The records of the Steam Engine Makers
• Overview of the SEM Database
• Descriptions of data tables:
  • Project Management Tables
  • Annual Report Data Tables
  • Other Data Tables
• Using the Database
  • Reconstructing individual career histories
  • Constructing datasets for statistical analysis

(c) Humphrey Southall, 1997