Engineering & Technology

The Aeroplane Speaks. Fifth Edition

H. Barber

The Aeroplane Speaks is a practical manual for early aviators, written by Horatio Barber, an experienced…

Gas and Oil Engines, Simply Explained An Elementary Instruction Book for Amateurs and Engine Attendants

Walter C. Runciman

This handbook sets out to give a clear, step‑by‑step explanation of how a gas or oil internal‑combustion…

English and American tool builders

Joseph Wickham Roe

The book is a scholarly survey of the people who created the machines that make other machines, focusing on…

Jane's All the World's Aircraft. 1913

Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft (1913) is a technical annual that catalogues the state of aviation at a…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Volume 2, Slice 6

Various

The entry begins with a concise survey of the early ideas that led to the development of armoured protection…

Aviation in Peace and War

Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes

Frederick Hugh Sykes’s Aviation in Peace and War is a scholarly overview that traces the development of…

Inventions in the century

William H. Doolittle

In Inventions in the Century William H. Doolittle presents a sweeping survey of technological progress,…

A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine

Robert Henry Thurston

Robert H. Thurston’s work is a scholarly survey of the steam‑engine’s evolution, originally delivered as…

Learning to Fly: A Practical Manual for Beginners

Grahame-White, Claude; Harper, Harry

Learning to Fly is a practical handbook aimed at the novice aviator, written by Claude Grahame‑White and…

The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain

Samuel Smiles

The work is a nineteenth‑century biography of Thomas Telford, the celebrated civil engineer, written by…

Steamships and their story

E. Keble Chatterton

The book is a comprehensive, non‑technical history of the steam‑propelled vessel, written by Edward Keble…

Scientific American, Volume 56, No. 9, February 26, 1887

Various

Scientific American, Volume 56, No. 9 (February 26, 1887) is a nineteenth‑century periodical that assembles a…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Destructors" to "Diameter" Volume 8, Slice 3

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3, is a reference work that continues the alphabetic…

The Silicon Jungle

David H. Rothman

David H. Rothman’s The Silicon Jungle is a nonfiction guide that blends hard‑line facts with a lively,…

The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting

Thomas Commerford Martin

The Boy Electrician

Alfred Powell Morgan

The automobile owner's guide

Frank B. Scholl

Woodworking Tools 1600-1900

Peter C. Welsh

My Life and Work

Ford, Henry; Crowther, Samuel

Giant brains; or, Machines that think

Edmund Callis Berkeley

The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer

Isambard Brunel

The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: Containing, Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy in the Working of Metallick Mines, and the Separation of Metals: Also, Various Cheap and Easie Ways of Making Salt-petre, and Improving of Barren-land, and the Fruits of the Earth.

Johann Rudolf Glauber

Rambles on Railways

Sir Cusack P. Roney

Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.

American School of Correspondence