of the District the three northern rivers, the Tyne, Wear and Tees: including the reports on the local manufactures, read before the British Association. On the Manufacture of Aluminium, The Industrial resources of the District the three northern rivers, the Tyne, Wear and Tees: including the reports on the local manufactures, read before the British Association. (pp 73–119) Baron William George Armstrong, 1863. The Manufacture of Aluminium, The Technologist, July 1864. The Manufacture of Thallium, British Association, 1864. The present state of the manufacture of iron in Great Britain, and its position as compared with that of some other countries (from the report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1867), M & M.W. Lambert, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1867. The Chemical Phenomena of Iron Smelting: An Experimental and Practical Examination of the Circumstances Which Determine the Capacity of the Blast Furnace, the Temperature of the Air, and the Proper Condition of the Materials to Be Operated Upon (collection of papers published as a book, 435pp), Routledge, London, 1872. The Iron Trade of the United Kingdom Compared with that of the Other Chief Ironmaking Nations, Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1875. Mr I Lowthian Bell and the Blair Direct Process. James M'Millin, 1875. Sir Lowthian Bell and his presidential address. North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers (vol. 36) 1875. On the Hot Blast, with an explanation of its Mode of Action in Iron Furnaces of Different Capacities. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers (vol. V pp 56–81) May 1876 to February 1877. The Principles of the Manufacture of Iron and Steel with some notes on the economic conditions of their production , George Routledge & Sons, London, 1884. On the manufacture of salt near Middlesbrough (with James Forrest). Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 1887. On the Probable Future of the Manufacture of Iron. Memorandum as to the wear of rails, Ben Johnson, 1896. Memorandum(No.2) as to the wear of rails & broken rails, Leeds Chorley & Pickersgill 1900. Family life On 20 July 1842 Bell, known as Lowthian, married Margaret Pattinson, daughter of his business partner Hugh Lee Pattinson and Phebe Walton. Margaret's younger sisters married Bell's business partners Robert Benson Bowman and Robert Stirling Newall: all three brothers-in-law were members of Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club and the Natural History Society of Northumberland. Their children were Sir Thomas Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet, known as