Books
- The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes, by David E. H. Jones. W. H. Freeman (1982); ISBN 0-7167-1412-4
- The Further Inventions of Daedalus, by David E.H. Jones. Oxford University Press (1999); ISBN 0-19-850469-1.
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