Originally based on the even older German Hütte, it was first published in 1916 by Lionel Simeon Marks.
In 2017, its 12th edition, published by McGraw-Hill, marked the 100th anniversary of the work.
Lionel S. Marks was a professor of mechanical engineering at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1900s.
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