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** Records of Staff and Students of Cooper's Hill Engineering College 1871-1906 are held in series IOR/L/PWD/8 with those of students also on [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=913 FIBIS database]. [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/05/engineering-a-career-in-india.html "Engineering a career in India"] 20 May 2014 British Library untold lives blog.
*The publication ''Indian Engineering'' is held by the [[British Library]]. For comments about this publication, refer the online editions, below. The British Library catalogue shows the following issues are held: UIN: BLL01013927488 "vol.3.no.[1], etc (7 Jan.1888 - Jan.1952)". However, for the catalogue entry UIN: BLL01012090738 it is advised Deficient: vol.64, no.17 - vol.67, 1918-20.
*The publication ''Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland'' is held by the [[British Library]]. Published by ICE Publishing 2002-2014, currently (March 2016) in three volumes: Volume 1. 1500-1830. Volume 2: 1830–1890. Volume 3: 1890–1920. [http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.114 Sample page, Volume 3] with entry for Harold Edward Byrne, Federated Malay States. For more sample pages, see Individuals below.
* From c June 2013 the following records have been availble on the pay site Ancestry.com
**[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=3585 UK, Civil Engineer Records, 1820-1930] source UK: Institution of Civil Engineers.
*Charles Spedding, Engineer, of the road making contacting company Spedding & Co, making the road from Gilgit to Kashmir c 1891, and W.P. Appleford, an engineer employee - refer [[Punjab Rifles]]
*[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/iicep.1957.1944 Colonel Frederick Charles Temple, C.I.E., C.B.E., V.D., 1879-1957] Obituary ICE Virtual Library. He came to India c 1905 and served in various capacities with the Military Works Services and with the Public Works Department. In 1919 he was appointed Chief Town Engineer and later Administrator, for the Tata Iron and Steel Co., being responsible for the design and building of the town of [[Jamshedpur]]. Later, he became Relief Engineer and Supply Officer to the Government of Bihar and Orissa after the January 1934 earthquake and was responsible for the reconstruction of the towns, roads and bridges destroyed.
* Sample pages from ''Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 3: 1890–1920'', published 2014 by ICE Publishing. icevirtuallibrary.com**[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.163 John Edwin Dallas 1855-1938] Indian PWD, Railway Branch c late 1870s Bombay etc, Assam, Burma. Retired 1910. **[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.457 Sir Francis Langford O’Callaghan (1839-1909)]. Indian PWD, Railways 1862-1894, including north-west frontier.**[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.626 Brigadier-General Sir William Danvers Waghorn (1867-1936)]. Commissioned as a Royal Engineer 1887, joined the Public Works Department, Railways. Served in the Boer War as Deputy Assistant Director of Railways, and the Western Front, WW1 as Chief Engineer of XVII Corps. Retired 1924 India.
== External links ==
*[http://www.indianetzone.com/36/developments_public_works_british_india.htm Developments in Public Works, British India] from History of India, Indianetzone
