Alexander Luchars

Alexander Luchars was an American publishing executive, originally from Scotland, who founded the Industrial Press, Inc., publisher of "Machinery's Handbook".

Luchars started a monthly magazine called "Machinery" in competition with other similar magazines in the metalworking field in 1894. (Although the history page on Industrial Press's own website says that "Machinery" was started "in about 1880," both the Library of Congress's [http://catalog.loc.gov catalogue] and the autobiography of "Machinery"'s first chief editor, Fred H. Colvin, place its beginning in 1894.) In 1914, the first edition of "Machinery's Handbook" appeared.