Engineering & Technology

Color Images from Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity

Bob Webster

Bob Webster’s Color Images from Mars Rovers is a visual‑focused nonfiction work that assembles NASA’s raw…

Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs

Gillette, Halbert Powers; Hill, Charles Shattuck

The book is a technical manual on the calculation of cement, sand, and aggregate quantities for mortars and…

The British battle fleet, Vol. 2 (of 2): Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day

Fred T. Jane

The British Battle Fleet, Volume II is a detailed historical survey of the Royal Navy’s evolution from the…

Practical Mechanics for Boys

James Slough Zerbe

Practical Mechanics for Boys is a hands‑on manual that sets out, in plain language, the fundamentals of…

Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, elementary instruction in practical mechanical drawing; Together with Examples in Simple Geometry and Elementary Mechanism, Including Screw Threads, Gear Wheels, Mechanical Motions, Engines and Boilers

Joshua Rose

Mechanical Drawing Self‑Taught is a practical handbook that walks the reader through the selection and…

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete

da Vinci Leonardo

The volume is a facsimile of Leonardo da Vinci’s own handwritten treatises on optics, collected under the…

Steam, Its Generation and Use

Babcock & Wilcox Company

Steam, Its Generation and Use is a technical history that traces the evolution of steam power from antiquity…

Elements of Plumbing

Samuel Edward Dibble

Samuel Edward Dibble’s Elements of Plumbing is a practical handbook aimed at novices who lack formal training…

James Watt

Andrew Carnegie

The work is a nineteenth‑century biography of James Watt, the Scottish inventor whose steam engine…

Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers

Hubert E. Collins

This volume is a practical handbook for engineers who must install, adjust, and keep running steam turbines…

How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity

Thomas M. St. John

Thomas M. St. John’s How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus is a practical handbook aimed at young…

Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post

Thomas Rainey

Thomas Rainey’s Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post is a polemical treatise that sets out, in a…

The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student

Franklin Beech

The work is a technical handbook aimed at bleachers, textile colourists and manufacturers, opening with a…

History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 4 (of 4)

W. S. Lindsay

This volume is the concluding part of a four‑book series that chronicles the evolution of commercial…

The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

Edward W. Byrn

Edward W. Byrn’s The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century is a sweeping survey of the era’s…

The Evolution of Naval Armament

Frederick Leslie Robertson

Frederick Leslie Robertson’s work is a technical survey of naval material development, aimed at filling the…

Steam-ships: The story of their development to the present day

R. A. Fletcher

The work is a comprehensive technical history of steam‑propelled vessels, tracing their evolution from the…

De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556

Georg Agricola

The work is a scholarly translation of Georg Agricola’s 1556 treatise on mining, metallurgy and mineralogy,…

Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 3

H. H. Windsor

Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 3 is a practical handbook for the amateur woodworker, presenting a…

The book of wonders: Gives Plain and Simple Answers to the Thousands of Everyday Questions That Are Asked and Which All Should Be Able to, but Cannot Answer...

The Book of Wonders is an encyclopedic compendium that sets out to answer the myriad everyday questions that…

Modern ships of war

Reed, Edward J. (Edward James), Sir; Simpson, Edward

The work is a technical survey of contemporary naval forces, assembled by Sir Edward J.

Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34-44 on Science and Technology

Museum of History and Technology

This volume is a scholarly contribution from the Smithsonian’s Museum of History and Technology, forming part…

Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 1

H. H. Windsor

Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 1 is a practical manual for the amateur woodworker, focused on the…

The handbook of soap manufacture

Simmons, W. H. (William Herbert); Appleton, H. A.

The handbook of soap manufacture is a technical manual that opens with a detailed preface explaining its…