1866 A descriptive treatise on mathematical drawing instruments : their construction, uses, qualities, selection, preservation, and suggestions for improvements, with hints upon drawing and colouring (which became the standard authority, in its seventh edition by 1900)
1867 Proposition for a New Reform Bill to Fairly Represent the Interests of the People (Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London) (Proposing a simple form of Proportional representation)
1869 Electric disc and experiments, by a positive conductor (W.F. Stanley, Patentee, London)
1872 Photography Made Easy: A Manual for beginners (Gregory, printers)
1875 Stanley's Pretty Figure Book Arithmetic (reprinted 1881)
1881 Experimental Researches into the Properties and Motions of Fluids: With theoretical deductions therefrom (E. & F.N. Spon) (this work was commended by Darwin and Tyndall.
A supplemental work on sound motions in fluids was unfinished)
1890 (with Tallack, H.T.) Surveying and levelling instruments theoretically and practically described: for construction, qualities, selection, preservation, adjustments, and uses; with other apparatus and appliances used by civil engineers and surveyors in the field (E. & F.N. Spon, London) – in its fourth edition by 1914
1895 Notes on the Nebular Theory in Relation to Stellar, Solar, Planetary, Cometary, and Geological Phenomena (William Ford Stanley, London)
1896 Joe Smith and his Waxworks (Fictional portrayal of the life of travelling fair people, but with an underlying message about the treatment of children.
Written by "Bill Smith, with the help of Mrs. Smith and Mr. Saunders (W.F.S)")
1900 Mathematical drawing and measuring instruments: their construction, uses, qualities, selection, preservation, and suggestions for improvements, with hints upon drawing, colouring, calculating, sun printing, lettering, &c (E. & F.N. Spon, London)
1903 The Case of The.
Fox: a Political Utopia (Stanley's prediction of life in 1950, including predictions of the Channel Tunnel, a unified Europe, a simplified currency, amongst others)
1905 "Turn to the Right."
Or, a Plea for a Simple Life.
A comedy in four acts (Coventry & Son) – A play performed in the Stanley Halls in May 1905
1866 A descriptive treatise on mathematical drawing instruments : their construction, uses, qualities, selection, preservation, and suggestions for improvements, with hints upon drawing and colouring (which became the standard authority, in its seventh edition by 1900)
1867 Proposition for a New Reform Bill to Fairly Represent the Interests of the People (Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London) (Proposing a simple form of Proportional representation)
1869 Electric disc and experiments, by a positive conductor (W.F. Stanley, Patentee, London)
1872 Photography Made Easy: A Manual for beginners (Gregory, printers)
1875 Stanley's Pretty Figure Book Arithmetic (reprinted 1881)
1881 Experimental Researches into the Properties and Motions of Fluids: With theoretical deductions therefrom (E. & F.N. Spon) (this work was commended by Darwin and Tyndall. A supplemental work on sound motions in fluids was unfinished)
1890 (with Tallack, H.T.) Surveying and levelling instruments theoretically and practically described: for construction, qualities, selection, preservation, adjustments, and uses; with other apparatus and appliances used by civil engineers and surveyors in the field (E. & F.N. Spon, London) – in its fourth edition by 1914
1895 Notes on the Nebular Theory in Relation to Stellar, Solar, Planetary, Cometary, and Geological Phenomena (William Ford Stanley, London)
1896 Joe Smith and his Waxworks (Fictional portrayal of the life of travelling fair people, but with an underlying message about the treatment of children. Written by "Bill Smith, with the help of Mrs. Smith and Mr. Saunders (W.F.S)")
1900 Mathematical drawing and measuring instruments: their construction, uses, qualities, selection, preservation, and suggestions for improvements, with hints upon drawing, colouring, calculating, sun printing, lettering, &c (E. & F.N. Spon, London)
1903 The Case of The. Fox: a Political Utopia (Stanley's prediction of life in 1950, including predictions of the Channel Tunnel, a unified Europe, a simplified currency, amongst others)
1905 "Turn to the Right." Or, a Plea for a Simple Life. A comedy in four acts (Coventry & Son) – A play performed in the Stanley Halls in May 1905
William Stanley (inventor)