Bell, David (Compiler), David Napier Engineer 1790-1869. An Autobiographical Sketch with Notes. James Maclehose and sons Glasgow 1912

Bowie, Robert, A Brief Narrative, Proving The Right Of  The Late William Symington, Civil Engineer, To Be Considered The Inventor Of Steam Land Carriage Locomotion; And Also The Inventor And Introducer Of Steam Navigation. London. 1833

Bowman, A. Ian, Symington and the Charlotte Dundas. Falkirk Museums 1981

Bruce, James, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. Five volumes. Edinburgh 1790

Campbell, R.H., Carron Company. Oliver and Boyd Edinburgh and London 1961

Charnock, John, An History of Marine Architecture. Volume III. London 1802

Dickinson, H.W. and Jenkins, Rhys, James Watt and the Steam Engine. The Memorial Volume prepared for the Committee of the Watt Centenary Commemoration at Birmingham 1919. First published in 1927

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Gillespie, Robert, Round About Falkirk. Glasgow 1868

Grant, Lieut. James, The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery, Performed in His Majesty's Vessel the Lady Nelson, of Sixty Tons Burthen, with Sliding Keels, in the Years 1800, 1801 and 1802, to New South Wales. London 1803

Harvey, W.S. and Downs-Rose, G., William Symington Inventor and Engine Builder. Northgate Publishing, London 1980

Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of all Nations, 1851 Supplement, Volume 4, pages 1472-1476. (An essay on the origins of steam navigation in Great Britain by W.C.A. which features letters from William Symington to Patrick Miller regarding the 1789 steamboat.)

Paton, Rev. Henry, Genealogy of the Symington Family. Printed for Private Circulation. Edinburgh 1908

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Symington, Charles Jr., Scotch and Soda. Baltimore 1984

Woodcroft, Bennet, Alphabetical Index of Patentees of Inventions. First published in 1854

Woodcroft, Bennet, A Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam Navigation from Authentic Documents. Taylor, Walton and Maberly. London 1848 

Young, Thomas, An Account of Mr. Symington’s New Steam Boat, Journals of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. London 1802, Volume I, pages 195-196