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2. L’Ecole Centrale, Origines et destinées de l’Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris, Volume 1, Histoire de l’Ecole, book published for the association of former students of Ecole Centrale Paris, Bedecom SA, 1981.
3. University St Andrews Scotland, Biographies of mathematicians,
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Olivier.html
4. Musée des Arts et Métiers,
http://cugnot.cnam.fr:8000/SEARCH/BASIS/collec/internet/objet/SDW?W%3DAUT+PH+WORDS+%27Theodore+Olivier%27+ORDER+BY+DESIG/Ascend%26M%3Dl%26R%3DY
5. U.S. Military Academy of West Point,
http://www.dean.usma.edu/math/people/rickey/dms/OlivierModels.html