| Reference in text | Source – name | Source – details | Source – link | Retrieved on |
| Collecting honey using rope | Bon Appetit Wednesday! Celebrate National Honey Month with Honey and Vinegar Candy | antiquity now – undated | http://antiquitynow.org/2014/09/03/bon-appetit-wednesday-celebrate-national-honey-month-with-honey-and-vinegar-candy/#more-4859 | 11/30/2015 |
| Moving the Easter Island moai | Easter Island Mystery Solved? New Theory Says Giant Statues Rocked | National Geographic – Jun 2012 | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120622-easter-island-statues-moved-hunt-lipo-science-rocked/ | 11/30/2015 |
| weight moved everyday | Moving and lifting the construction blocks of the great pyramid | Jason Baldridge, University of Pennsylvania, Winter 1996 | http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jason2/papers/pyramid.htm | 1/19/2016 |
| Cheops’ ships | Cheops ships | Nordic Underwater Archeology – May 2004 | https://www.abc.se/~pa/mar/cheops.htm | 11/30/2015 |
| Mersa Gawasis | VIDEO World’s oldest Ropes found (navigation needed) | Discovery News – Jun 2008 | http://news.discovery.com/history/videos/archaeology-worlds-oldest-ropes-found.htm | 11/30/2015 |
| String is even older | World’s oldest string found at French Neanderthal site | New Scientist – Nov 2013 | https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029432-800-worlds-oldest-string-found-at-french-neanderthal-site/ | 12/7/2015 |
| Royal Navy rope had to measure 1000 feet | ROPE MAKING IN YEOVIL: A long-standing small local industry | The A-Z of Yeovil’s history – undated | http://www.yeovilhistory.info/rope.htm | 11/30/2015 |
| Conversion of the QEII | Cunard Queen Elizabeth 2 ship history | Queen Elizabeth Cruises – Jan 2014 | http://www.queenelizabethcruises.net/qe2-queen-elizabeth-2-ship/ | 11/30/2015 |
| In Egyptian art | Wikimedia Commons – picture | en:User:Mstroeck – Jan 2006 | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancient_Egypt_rope_manufacture.jpg | 11/30/2015 |
| making rope in Egypt | Rope | How Products are Made, Volume 2 – undated | http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Rope.html | 11/30/2015 |
| The Master Ropemakers | The Master Ropemakers Chatham | Commercial Website | http://www.master-ropemakers.co.uk/ | 11/30/2015 |
| Outhwaite Ropemakers | Outhwaites Ltd | Commercial Website | http://www.ropemakers.com/ | 11/30/2015 |
| Richard Arkwright | Sir Richard Arkwright: 1732 – 1792 A pioneer of the industrial revolution | Cromford Mills – charity website | http://cromfordmills.org.uk/content/sir-richard-arkwright | 11/30/2015 |
| Christopher Polhem built the first water-powered factory | Christopher Polhem – Swedish engineer | The Encyclopaedia Britannica – Dec 2014 | http://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Polhem | 12/23/2015 |
| Christopher Polhem invented the padloack | Christopher Polhem | Historical Locks – undated | http://www.historicallocks.com/Web/Core/Pages/InfoPage.aspx?id=798541&epslanguage=en | 12/23/2015 |
| Cartwright cordelier | Edmund Cartwright | Encyclopaedia Britannica – Nov 2013 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/97553/Edmund-Cartwright | 11/30/2015 |
| Moving the obelisk | The obelisk of Saint Peter’s Square | Legendary Rome – May 2013 | http://legendaryrome.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/the-obelisk-of-saint-peters-square.html | 11/30/2015 |
| Moving the lighthouse | The moving of Belle Tout lighthouse | The Argus (Via Sussex University) – 1998 | http://www.sussex.ac.uk/geography/researchprojects/coastview/Belle_Tout/belle_tout.htm | 11/30/2015 |
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Michelle Spaul 
