Engineering & Technology

Fire prevention and fire extinction

James Braidwood

L'isthme de Panama Examen historique et géographique des différentes directions suivant lesquelles on pourrait le percer et des moyens à y employer; suivi d'un aperçu sur l'isthme de Suez.

Michel Chevalier

Ce volume est un traité d’histoire‑géographie consacré à l’isthme de Panama et aux diverses routes envisagées…

The Online World

Odd De Presno

The Online World is a practical guide that opens with a straightforward preface explaining its purpose: to…

Electricity for Boys

James Slough Zerbe

Electricity for Boys is a hands‑on manual that treats the science of electricity as a series of concrete…

Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose

Willis J. Abbot

The book is a sprawling illustrated survey of the Panama Canal and its surrounding zone, written by Willis J.

How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use

Archibald Williams

How It Works is a nineteenth‑century instructional volume that sets out to explain the principles behind…

Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17

John T. Schlebecker

This volume is a scholarly catalogue produced by the Smithsonian Institution’s Division of Agriculture and…

Highways and Highway Transportation

George R. Chatburn

George R. Chatburn’s Highways and Highway Transportation is a scholarly overview of the evolution of roads…

John Deere's Steel Plow

Edward C. Kendall

Edward C. Kendall’s work is a scholarly study of the invention and early development of John Deere’s steel…

Catechism of the locomotive

Forney, Matthias N. (Matthias Nace); Kosak, Georg

The work is a nineteenth‑century handbook that sets out, in a question‑and‑answer format, the fundamentals of…

Opportunities in Aviation

Sweetser, Arthur; Lamont, Gordon

The book is a practical treatise on aviation written just after World War I by two experienced pilots, an…

The history of steam navigation

John Kennedy

The work is a meticulously compiled reference on the rise of steam‑driven vessels, assembled from…

Lectures in Navigation

Ernest Gallaudet Draper

Lectures in Navigation is a practical instructional manual compiled for the Officers’ Material School of the…

German Science Reader An Introduction to Scientific German, for Students of Physics, Chemistry and Engineering

Charles Frederick Kroeh

Der German Science Reader ist ein Lehrbuch, das systematisch das Lesen wissenschaftlicher Texte auf Deutsch…

A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication

Daniel Clark

This work is a nineteenth‑century handbook on electrotherapeutics, written by Daniel Clark in 1869 after a…

The Palace and Park Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian Court

Phillips, Samuel; Forbes, Edward; Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon); Owen, Richard; Scharf, George; Shenton, F. K. J.

The book is a Victorian guide‑book to the Crystal Palace and its surrounding park, first published in 1859…

James B. Eads

Louis How

The work is a biographical sketch of James Buchanan Eads, written by Louis How in 1900.

The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany

Arthur Henry Chamberlain

Arthur Henry Chamberlain’s work is a systematic survey of German technical education at the turn of the…

History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, Volume 1 (of 2) From the Formation of the Corps in March 1712 to the date when its designation was changed to that of Royal Engineers

T. W. J. Connolly

This work is a detailed historical memoir of the Royal Sappers and Miners, tracing the corps from its…

A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

Johann Beckmann

This volume is a scholarly survey of the development of steam power, tracing its lineage from antiquity…

The evolution of the steam locomotive (1803 to 1898)

George Augustus Nokes

The work is a scholarly survey of British steam‑locomotive development from the earliest experiments in 1803…

The boy mechanic, book 3: 800 Things for Boys to Do

The volume is a practical handbook that guides a competent young mechanic through the step‑by‑step…

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXXII, June, 1911 Water Purification Plant, Washington, D. C. Results of Operation.

E. D. American Society of Civil Engineers; Hardy

This volume is a technical report presented to the American Society of Civil Engineers in June 1911,…

Edison: His Life and Inventions

Dyer, Frank Lewis; Martin, Thomas Commerford

The book is a biographical study of Thomas Alva Edison, written by his longtime associates Frank Lewis Dyer…