Delays in the recording of monuments of engineering — when compared to other cultural properties — have been the outcome of several reasons (late granting of the status of monument), a proprietary link with economic branches who are guided in their activity by utilitarian considerations, lack of professionals in recording work). It is also associated with the lack of the tradition of protecting and documentating this kind of objects. First registers of monuments included objects of engineering only incidentally and took into account their historic, architectonic or ethnographic values. In that context the inventorying of a rolling mill and iron puddling shop in Sielpia Wielka, made by Warsaw Museum of Engineering and Industry in 1934, should be regarded as an unusual event. Regular recording work on monuments of engineering was initiated by the Institute of the History of Material Culture attached to the Polish Academy of Sciences. Its results were published in form of the catalogue of monuments of industrial building in Poland, the first issue of which apApeared in 1958. In the past years Department for Monuments' Documentation (two first registers of monuments date back to 1964 and 1971— 1972) paid attention to monuments of engineering on a small scale only (industrial buildings and rural industry). Much more place has been devoted to monuments of engineering in the Register of Monuments of Architecture and Building in Poland,- just published, based on the so-called "address” recording, carried out on a regular base since 1977. Still, this register does not include objects representing key industries such as mining, metallurgy, textile industry et.c. The first publication on the methods of recording which comprised also monuments of engineering was the paper entitled "Methods of Recording Monuments” (published in 1981 in Series of BMOZ, vol. 67). It contained also an annex on the recording of immovable engineering property. This publication was complemented with the instruction on the recording of monuments of engineering, published in 1985 and concerning movable and immovable objects (included in this kind of the publication for the first time). The instruction is very general as it was not possible to include into such a concise publication specificities of all different examples of engineering. Detailed directions for the authors of recording works should be prepared for individual kinds of monuments of engineering with the help of specialists from those fields (in a working form such indications have been prepared by a register team attached to the National Museum of Farming in Szreniawa for structures of agro-food ndustry and by a team dealing with the protection of monuments of road and bridge engineering of the General Board for Public Roads — for examples of road building. The situation in the protection of monuments of engineering (and, thus, their recording and conservation) might get improved along with the implementation of the following postulates put forward at all possible occasions: — to organize efficient interbranch cooperation, — to bring to life a centre attached to a proper scientific — research institute which would coordinate work in the field of the protection of monuments of engineering, — to create a separate source for the financing of such work. These postulates found their reflection in the ’’Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of the Protection of Monuments of Engineering and Development of Technical Museology’’ signed on February 14, 1978 between the Ministry of Culture and Arts and the Supreme Technical Organization (NOT). The agreement is now realized but only with regard to one point only, namely the one concerning the financing of research work on monuments of egineering. It employs financial means allocated for an international research problem referred to as "Monuments of Culture — the Source of the Nation’s Consciousness” . Still another result of initiatives undertaken in 1978 is cooperation with a scientific unit at the Technological University in Wrocław, namely the Institute of History of Architecture, Arts and Engineering. Activities of that Institute in the field of the protection of monuments of engineering in Lower and partially in Upper Silesia are very extensive (recording, basic studies, concept of the protection of most valuable objects) and should provide an example for other regions of Poland.