自鸦片战争之后,中国在西方列强船坚炮利冲击之下,逐步开启向西方学习的现代化进程,中国近代机器工业正是在此背景之下产生、发展、壮大。有关近代机器工业的各类文献虽然极为丰富,但往往散见于各类档案、报刊、文集等历史文献之中,纷繁复杂,利用多有不便。如何系统地收集、整理、利用近代工业的有关史料,全 Since the Opium War, China has gradually started the process of modernization of studying in the West under the impact of the Western powers’ strongholds. It is precisely under this background that China’s modern machinery industry was born, developed and expanded. Although all kinds of documents about the modern machinery industry are extremely rich, they are often scattered in historical documents such as archives, newspapers and periodicals, anthologies, and so on. How to systematically collect, organize, use the relevant historical data of modern industry, all