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• Concise Chemical and Technical Dictionary (second enlarged edition; New York: Chemical Pub. Co., 1962), ed. by H. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of the Useful Arts (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby and Co., 1855), by Thomas Antisell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hand-Book of the Useful Arts: Including Agriculture, Architecture, Domestic Economy, Engineering, Machinery, Manufactures, Mining, Photogenic and Telegraphic Art: Being an Exposition of Their Principles and Practice and a Compend of American and European Invention (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v3; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Thomas Antisell
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering and the Mechanical Arts (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1880), ed. by Park Benjamin
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Dictionnaire Polyglotte en Six Langues: Français-Allemand-Anglais-Suédois-Italien-Russe des Termes de la Machine à Vapeur et de Ses Différentes Applications / Shesti-Iazychnyi Slovar: Frantsuzsko-Niemetsko-Anglo-Shvedsko-Italiansko-Russkii (St. Petersburg, Russia: Imperial Academy of the Sciences, 1865), by Andrei Mikhailovich Engel (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A New Literacies Dictionary: Primer for the Twenty-First Century Learner (c2011), by Adam Mackie (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Bulletin (New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) (partial serial archives)
• Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology (1995), by Committee on Criteria for Federal Support of Research and Development (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Bulletin (University of Washington, Engineering Experiment Station) (partial serial archives)
• Developments in Industrial Technology: A Reprint of Twenty-Nine Notable Papers Recently Appearing in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering (New York: McGraw Hill Co., c1921) (page images at loc.gov)
• The Fireside University: For Home Circle Study and Entertainment (Chicago: Union Publishing House, c1898), by John McGovern (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Useful Arts, Considered in Connexion with the Applications of Science (2 volumes; Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840), by Jacob Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Next Hundred Years: The Unfinished Business of Science (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, c1936), by C. C. Furnas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Citation Indexing: Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities, by Eugene Garfield (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Globalization of Technology: International Perspectives (1988), ed. by Janet H. Muroyama and H. Guyford Stever (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Free: The Future of a Radical Price (read by the author in its entirety; 2009), by Chris Anderson (zipped audio files at Wired; 280 MB)

• A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for W. Owen, 1763-1764)
  • Volume I (A-C): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (D-K): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (L-Q): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (R-Z): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (R-Z): multiple formats at Google

• Changing the Cogs: Activists and the Politics of Technology (Canberra: Friends of the Earth, 1979), by Brian Martin (PDF with rotated pages and commentary in Australia)

• Makers (2009), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• Sentiment, Inc., by Poul Anderson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ghana: Changing Values, Changing Technologies (Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, II; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2000), ed. by Helen Lauer (PDF at crvp.org)

• The Scientific Revolution Revisited (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), by Mikuláš Teich (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Federal Scientific and Technical Information in an Electronic Age: Opportunities and Challenges (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• The Big Data Agenda: Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies (London: University of Westminster Press, 2018), by Annika Richterich
  • multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press
  • HTML at Project MUSE
• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• Invention and Technology (partial serial archives)
• Annals of the University of Oradea: Fascicle of Management and Technological Engineering (issues online 2005-) (partial serial archives)
• Memoirs of the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University (partial serial archives)
• Popular Science (partial serial archives)
• New Scientist (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards (full serial archives)
• RSA Journal (partial serial archives)
• Science and Invention, ed. by Hugo Gernsback (full serial archives)
• Scientific American (partial serial archives)
• The English Mechanic and World of Science (partial serial archives)
• Archives of Useful Knowledge, ed. by James Mease (full serial archives)
• The Electrical Experimenter, ed. by Hugo Gernsback (partial serial archives)
• Mechanics' Magazine (US magazine, 1833-1837) (partial serial archives)
• Popular Mechanics (partial serial archives)
• Scientific American Supplement (partial serial archives)
• Bureau of Standards Journal of Research (full serial archives)
• Zeitschrift für Technische Physik (partial serial archives)
• Modern Electrics (partial serial archives)
• The Manufacturer and Builder (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Royal Society of Arts (partial serial archives)

• Ghana: Changing Values, Changing Technologies (Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, II; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2000), ed. by Helen Lauer (PDF at crvp.org)
• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, by R. Buckminster Fuller (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Technology, Trust, and Religion: Roles of Religions in Controversies on Ecology and the Modification of Life (c2009), ed. by Willem B. Drees (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Averting Catastrophe: Strategies for Regulating Risky Technologies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), by Joseph G. Morone and Edward J. Woodhouse (HTML at UC Press)

• Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century (2011), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future (2008), by Cory Doctorow, contrib. by John Perry Barlow (PDF with commentary at craphound.com)
• Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Tara McPherson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Technology for Humanitarian Action (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Health and Coooperation, in cooperation with Stevens Institute of Technology, 2005), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Technology and Society: Interfaces with Industrial Arts (American Council on Industrial Arts Teacher Education Yearbook #29; Bloomington, IL: McKnight Pub. Co., 1980), ed. by Herbert A. Anderson and M. James Bensen (PDF at vt.edu)
• Changing the Cogs: Activists and the Politics of Technology (Canberra: Friends of the Earth, 1979), by Brian Martin (PDF with rotated pages and commentary in Australia)
• Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World (webbed edition, 2008), by David D. Friedman (HTML at daviddfriedman.com)
• Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1998), ed. by Patrick D. Hopkins (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2020), ed. by Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press Direct)
• An Interpretive History of Industrial Arts: The Interrelationship of Society, Education, and Industrial Arts (American Council on Industrial Arts Teacher Education Yearbook #30; Bloomington, IL: McKnight Pub. Co., 1981), ed. by Richard Barella and Thomas Wright (PDF at vt.edu)
• Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (2007), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)
• Deep Lab (Pittsburgh: Deep Lab and the Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, 2014), by Addie Wagenknecht, Allison Burtch, Claire L. Evans, Denise Caruso, Harlo Holmes, Ingrid Burrington, Jillian C. York, Kate Crawford, Lindsay Howard, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Maddy Varner, Maral Pourkazemi, and Runa A. Sandvik (PDF with commentary at studioforcreativeinqury.org)
• Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Anna Everett (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)
• Grunch of Giants, by R. Buckminster Fuller (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)
• The Age of Automation: Its Effects on Human Welfare (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, c1955), by Warner Bloomberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guarding the Eye in the Age of Show (2001 edition), by Ivan Illich (PDF at davidtinapple.com)
• Marvels of Modern Science (1910), by Paul Severing, ed. by Theodore Waters (Gutenberg text)

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