Category Archives: Technology & Engineering

Time Telling Through the Ages

Author(s): Harry Chase Brearley A history of timekeeping from the stone age through to American...

The Romance of Modern Engineering

Author(s): Archibald Williams As it would be impossible to treat, in the compass of a...

The Story of Books

Author(s): Gertrude Burford Rawlings Rawlings follows the development of printing from the origins of writing...

Umbrellas and Their History

Author(s): William Sangster A whimsically serious look at the umbrella and society. (summary by Clarica)

Underground London

Author(s): John Hollingshead From the Preface: “This book contains an account, more or less readable,...

Rural Improvement

Author(s): Frank Albert Waugh The principles of civic art applied to rural conditions including village...

The Romance of Modern Manufacture

Author(s): Charles R. Gibson Those of us who have grown up with the results of...

The Romance of Modern Invention

Author(s): Archibald Williams This is a volume of exploration into the newest inventions of the...

Silent Sentinels: Protective Relays for A-C and D-C Systems

Author(s): Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company Possibly the first book concerning the protective relays and...

The Story of the Atlantic Cable

Author(s): Sir Charles Bright The electric telegraph, together with the railway-train and the steamship, constituted...

The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph

Author(s): Henry M. Field Cyrus W. Field had a dream: to link the Old World...

The Magic Lantern and its Management

Author(s): T. C. Hepworth There is no optical instrument so well known or so highly...

Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting

Author(s): Eugene Edward Hall This instruction manual contains complete directions for making and fitting new...

Inventions in the Century

Author(s): William Henry Doolittle The author was an Expert and Patent Solicitor, Ex-Examiner in the...

Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making

Author(s): Alan St. Hill Brock Captain St. Hill Brock presents here, in Part I, a...

Report to the President by the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident

Author(s): Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Since being sworn in on February 6,...

Fires and Fire-Fighters

Author(s): John Kenlon John Kenlon became a New York City firefighter in 1887, and was...

Insomnia Collection Vol. 006

Author(s): Various Drift off to dreamland with excerpts from this vintage collection of books about...

London (Ancient And Modern) From The Sanitary And Medical Point Of View

Author(s): George Vivian Poore This little book is an expansion of two addresses delivered in...

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Author(s): Charles Babbage Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of...

Edison, His Life and Inventions

Author(s): Frank Lewis DyerThomas Commerford Martin A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of...

John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death

Author(s): Franz von Dingelstedt This is a brief sketch of the last years of the...

Marvels of Scientific Invention

Author(s): Thomas W. Corbin This is a chronicle of the 19 most interesting inventions of...

Great Inventors and Their Inventions

Author(s): Frank Puterbaugh Bachman This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It...

Careers of Danger and Daring

Author(s): Cleveland Moffett In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain...

My Life and Work

Author(s): Henry Ford Henry Ford profiles the events that shaped his personal philosophy, and the...

History of the Johnstown Flood

Author(s): Willis Fletcher Johnson An account of the Johnstown Flood, the most devastating loss of...

Report on Securing and Growing the Digital Economy

Author(s): The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity President Obama formed The President’s Commission on Enhancing...

Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge FAA-H-8083-25A

Author(s): Federal Aviation Administration “The Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge provides basic knowledge that is...

James B. Eads

Author(s): Louis How Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was...