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• Heroes of the Telegraph, by John Munro (Gutenberg text)

• A History of Wireless Telegraphy: Including Some Bare-Wire Proposals for Subaqueous Telegraphs (second edition, revised; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1901), by J. J. Fahie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Marconi: The Man and His Wireless (New York: Macmillan, 1937), by Orrin E. Dunlap (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter West (PDF at Ohio State)

• Lincoln in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps During the Civil War (New York: The Century Co., 1907), by David Homer Bates
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• Masters of Space: Morse and the Telegraph; Thompson and the Cable; Bell and the Telephone; Marconi and the Wireless Telegraph; Carty and the Wireless Telephone (1917), by Walter Kellogg Towers (Gutenberg text)
• The Telegraph Monopoly (Philadelphia: C. F. Taylor, ca. 1899), by Frank Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals (2 volumes; 1914), by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, ed. by Edward Lind Morse
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• A School Compendium of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1856), by Richard Green Parker (page images at MOA)

• Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (ca. 1879), by Ella Cheever Thayer (Gutenberg text)

• Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes: A Volume of Choice Telegraphic Literature, Humor, Fun, Wit and Wisdom (third edition; New York: W. J. Johnston, c1882), ed. by W. J. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences at a Reception Given to the Captain and Officers of the Jeannette Search Expedition (San Francisco, 1881), by California Academy of Sciences (page images at LOC)

• Lectures Delivered by Colonel Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Chief of the Commission, on the 5th, 7th and 9th of October 1915 at the Phenix Theatre of Rio de Janeiro, on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition and the Telegraph Line Commission (Rio de Janeiro: Typ. Leuzinger, 1916), by Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, trans. by R. G. Reidy and Ed. Murray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Telegraph Messenger Boy: or, The Straight Road to Success (New York: Chatterton-Peck Co., c1904), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (ca. 1879), by Ella Cheever Thayer (Gutenberg text)

• Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes: A Volume of Choice Telegraphic Literature, Humor, Fun, Wit and Wisdom (third edition; New York: W. J. Johnston, c1882), ed. by W. J. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless: or, The Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1909), by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Battery and the Boiler, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• The Wireless Station at Silver Fox Farm (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., c1910), by James Otis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)

• Government Control of Radio Communication: Hearings Before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Sixty-Fifth Congress, Third Session, on H.R. 13158, a Bill to Further Regulate Radio Communication, December 12, 13, 17, 18, and 19, 1918 (Washington: GPO, 1919), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (multiple formats at Google)

• Electrical Communication (partial serial archives)

• Jahrbuch der Drahtlosen Telegraphie und Telephonie (partial serial archives)

• Description of the American Electro Magnetic Telegraph, Now In Operation Between the Cities of Washington and Baltimore (Washington: J. and G. S. Gideon, 1845), by Alfred Vail (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Relation of the Government to the Telegraph, by David A. Wells (page images at MOA)
• The Telegraph Monopoly (Philadelphia: C. F. Taylor, ca. 1899), by Frank Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Learning the Radiotelegraph Code (first edition; West Hartford, CT: American Radio Relay League, 1942), by John Huntoon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code to Cheapen Telegraphy and to Furnish a Complete Cypher (third edition; New York: Anglo-American Code and Cypher Co., 1891)
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Phillips Telegraphic Code for the Rapid Transmission by Telegraph of Press Reports, Commercial and Private Telegrams, and All Other Matter Sent by Wire or Cable (Washington: Gibson Bros., 1879), by Walter P. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Telegraphic Transmission of Photographs (London: Constable and Co., 1910), by T. Thorne Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vision by Radio, Radio Photographs, Radio Photograms (c1925), by C. Francis Jenkins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wireless Transmission of Photographs (second edition; London: The Wireless Press, 1919), by Marcus J. Martin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Radiomovies, Radiovision, Television (Washington: National Capital Press, c1929), by C. Francis Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modern Telephotography: A Practical Manual of Working Methods and Application (London: Ross Ltd., 1910), by Owen Wheeler
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• How to Make a Wireless Set (Chicago: Popular Mechanics Co., c1911), by Arthur Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Radio Questions and Answers on Government Examination for Radio Operator's License (first edition; New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1921), by Arthur R. Nilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Radio-Telegraphy (London: A. Constable and Co., 1908), by C. C. F. Monckton (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Weird Tales: English (London and Edinburgh: W. Paterson, n.d.), contrib. by A. Stewart Harrison, Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, T. Smollett, John Berwick Harwood, Edmund Yates, and Charles Ollier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wireless Telegraphy: Its History, Theory and Practice (New York: McGraw Pub. Co., 1905), by A. Frederick Collins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Electric Word: The Rise of Radio (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Paul Schubert (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The ABC of Electricity, Including Wireless Telegraphy (revised edition; New York: Excelsior Pub. House, c1909), by Wm. H. Meadowcroft (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Masters of Space: Morse and the Telegraph; Thompson and the Cable; Bell and the Telephone; Marconi and the Wireless Telegraph; Carty and the Wireless Telephone (1917), by Walter Kellogg Towers (Gutenberg text)
• Signalling Across Space Without Wires: Being a Description of the Work of Hertz and His Successors (fourth edition, ca. 1911), by Oliver Lodge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Experiments With Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (1892), by Nikola Tesla (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Astra Castra: Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere (London: Chapman and Hall, 1865), by Hatton Turnor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A History of Aeronautics, by Evelyn Charles Vivian (Gutenberg text)
• An Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland, in a Series of Letters to His Guardian, Chevalier Gerardo Compagni (London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Bell, 1786), by Vincent Lunardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of Some Remarkable Aërial and Alpine Voyages, Including Those of the Author; To Which Are Added, Observations of the Affections to Which Aerial and Mountain Travellers Are Liable, and an Essay on the Flight and Migration of Birds (London: Keating and Brown, 1832), by T. Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dominion of the Air, by John M. Bacon (Gutenberg text)
• Travels in the Air (London: R. Bentley, 1871), by James Glaisher, Camille Flammarion, W. de Fonvielle, and Gaston Tissandier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870), by Fulgence Marion (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents, or, The Conquest of the Skies: A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1870), by Fulgence Marion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents, or, The Conquest of the Skies: A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages (London et al.: Cassell Petter and Galpin, n.d.), by Fulgence Marion (multiple formats at archive.org)

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