1. Dictionnaire Universel Larousse relates experiments by Girard (1865) on railway bushings with lubrication and lifting which is substantially of the hydrostatic type, using water as fluid.
2. Hydrostatic lubricating;FULLER;Machine Design,1878
3. British Patent 186,595. F. Hodgkinson, Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd., 1923 (original patent application in U.S.A.).
4. Oil pad bearings prove effective for massive equipment;ORMONDROYD;Machine Design,1936
5. Theory and Practice of Lubrication for Engineers;FULLER,1963