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• Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization, by Kevin Kelly (HTML and PDF with commentary at kk.org)
• Inventeurs et inventions (Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1893), by Jean-Henri Fabre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technikos stebuklai : apžvalga pasisekimų, žmonijos įgytų oro, žemės ir vandens uzkariavime. Su daugybe paveikslu. Dviejose dalys (Zemaitis, 1916), by J. A. Chmieliauskas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opfindelsernes bog, en oversigt over menneskets kulturhistoriske udvikling og fremskridt paa videnskabens, kunstens, industriens og handelens omraader fra tidligste tid til vore dage. Under medvirkning af en storre kreds ansete fagmaend (O.H. Delbanco, etc., 1877), by André Lütken and André Lütken (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Changing Nature of Geostrategy, 1900-2000: The Evolution of a New Paradigm (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2015), by Tal Tovy (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Military experiments before World War II (Center for Naval Analyses, 2013), by Brian McCue and Center for Naval Analyses (page images at HathiTrust)

• Military experiments before World War II (Center for Naval Analyses, 2013), by Brian McCue and Center for Naval Analyses (page images at HathiTrust)

• Technology and the air force : a retrospective assessment (Air Force History and Museums Program, U.S. Air Force, 1997), by David Chenoweth, George M. Watson, Jacob Neufeld, and Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs: Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2023), by Thomas D. Isern (JSTOR ebook)

• Bull threshers and bindlestiffs : harvesting and threshing on the North American plains (University Press of Kansas, 1990), by Thomas D. Isern (page images at HathiTrust)

• Atlas zu dem zweiten Bande des Berichtes über die Welt-Ausstellung zu Paris im Jahre 1867 (Wilhelm Braumüller, K.K. Hof- und Universitäts-Buchhändler, 1867), by Wilhelm Braunmüller and K.K. Österreichisches Central-Comité (page images at HathiTrust)

• Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data: Lessons From an Interdisciplinary Project (Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2023), by Ruth Ahnert, Emma Griffin, Mia Ridge, and Giorgia Tolfo (PDF with commentary at cambridge.org)

• Observations on the utility of cutting hay and straw and bruising corn for feeding of animals : arranged and elucidated, not by chemical test but agricultural practice : with a full and particular description of the best machines for that purpose : with approbationary certificates annexed : also, a new and valuable discovery, of the utmost importance to the agricultural world, by which means every farmer may separate the more nutritious parts of his straw, for feeding animals, from the refuse, which may be used for litter (Printed by C. Whittingham, and sold by H.D. Symonds, J. Hatchard, and all booksellers in town and country, 1803), by W. Lester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marine salvage in the United States Navy (Naval History & Heritage Command, Naval Sea Systems Command, Dept. of the Navy :, 2009), by C. A. Bartholomew, William I. Milwee, and Naval History & Heritage Command (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs: Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2023), by Thomas D. Isern (JSTOR ebook)

• Bull threshers and bindlestiffs : harvesting and threshing on the North American plains (University Press of Kansas, 1990), by Thomas D. Isern (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Making Futures: Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, c2014), ed. by Pelle Ehn, Elisabet M Nilsson, and Richard Topgaard (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• A Passion for Ideas: How Innovators Create the New and Shape Our World (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2002), ed. by Heinrich von Pierer and Bolko von Oetinger (PDF at Purdue)
• Product Liability and Innovation: Managing Risk in an Uncertain Environment (1994), ed. by Janet R. Hunziker and Trevor O. Jones (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), ed. by William Bonvillian, Robert E. Van Atta, and Patrick Windham (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Reinventing the Company in the Digital Age (Madrid: BBVA, c2014), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Philip Evans, Kenneth Cukier, Geoffrey A. Moore, Haim Mendelson, George S. Day, Esteban García-Canal, Mauro F. Guillén, Joan E. Ricart i Costa, Christopher Warhurst, Sally Wright, Celia de Anca, Salvador Aragón, Alison Maitland, Stewart D. Friedman, Peter Thomson, Herzog & de Meuron, BBVA New Headquarters Team, William M. Klepper, John P. Kotter, Henry William Chesbrough, and Carol A. Adams (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Tara McPherson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Against Intellectual Monopoly (electronic edition, 2008), by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (PDF with commentary at dklevine.com)
• How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets, by Andy Kessler (PDF at andykessler.com)
• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• Technology enhancement programs in five foreign countries (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology ;, 1972), by United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology and George C. Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technology assessment of residential energy conservation innovations : final report. (U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by Hittman Associates and United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Productivity and job security : retraining to adapt to technological change (National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life, 1977), by A. Harvey Belitsky and National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life (page images at HathiTrust)
• Successful industrial innovations; a study of factors underlying innovation in selected firms (National Science Foundation; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969), by Sumner Myers, Donald G. Marquis, and National Science Foundation (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wartime technological developments : a study made for the Subcommittee on War Mobilization of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, pursuant to S. res. 107, 78th Congress, and S. res. 46, 79th Congress, authorizing a study of the possibilities of better mobilizing the national resources of the United States, May 1945. (Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1945., 1945), by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Productivity and Technological Development Division and United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talk, work, and action. (Society for Applied Anthropology, 1961), by F. L. W. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information and telecommunications an overview of issues, technologies, and applications : report for the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session (U.S. G.P.O., 1981), by Jean-Paul Emard, Library of Congress. Science Policy Research Division, and Research United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• The human factor in innovation and productivity hearings (including the record of a seminar sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science on July 28, 1981) before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, September 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by Research United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science and American Association for the Advancement of Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of alternative technologies for quarantine treatment of fruits and vegetables (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supporting innovation : a policy study. (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Office of Toxic Substances, Economics & Technology Division, Regulatory Impacts Branch, 1980), by Christopher T. Hill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Policy Alternatives, and United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic Substances. Regulatory Impacts Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perspectives on technological change : historical studies of four major innovations (National Commission for Employment Policy, 1984), by John A. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fordismus : über Industrie und technische Vernunft (G. Fischer, 1926), by Friedrich von Gottl-Ottlilienfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Using federal R&D to promote commercial innovation. (Congress of the U.S., Congressional Budget Office :, 1988), by Daniel P. Kaplan and United States Congressional Budget Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frontier economics : efficiency of firm performances with technological change (Economics Division, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1993), by R. T. Shand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Using Research and Development consortia for commercial innovation : SEMATECH, x-ray lithography, and high-resolution systems. (Washington, D.C. : The Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, [1990], 1990), by United States Congressional Budget Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• High technology consortia : the federal role : hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred First Congress, first session, June 8, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1989), by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Productivity and job security : attrition, benefits and problems, fall 1977. (National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of alternative technologies for quarantine treatment of fruits and vegetables (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Dept. of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts : a book for old and young (Kent, 1860), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report. v. 1- (U. S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1966), by Automation United States. National Commission on Technology, Garth L. Mangum, Howard R. Bowen, and United States. Interagency Advisory Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Structural change in the meat, poultry, dairy, and grain processing industries (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 2005), by Michael Ollinger and United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spinoff 1984 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, Technology Utilization and Industry Affairs Division, for sale by Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1984), by James J. Haggerty, United States. Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications. Technology Transfer Division, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the economy of machinery and manufactures (Charles Knight, 1835), by Charles Babbage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Useful new technology : NASA technology utilization program. (The Program, 1970), by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Technology Utilization Program (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trends in technology-intensive trade : [with special reference to U.S. competitiveness] (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of International Affairs, Office of Foreign Economic Research ;, 1980), by C. Michael Aho, Howard Rosen, United States. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Economic and Trade Policy Analysis Subcommittee, and United States. Bureau of International Labor Affairs. Office of Foreign Economic Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les applications nouvelles de la science à l'industrie et aux arts en 1855 (Hachette, 1857), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louise de La Vallière, and other poems. (K. Paul, Trench, 1886), by Katharine Tynan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dignity of mechanical labor : a lecture delivered before the Mechanics' Institute of the city of New York, March 11, 1852 (Casper C. Childs, Printer, 1852), by Lorenzo B. Shepard and Mechanics' Institute of the City of New-York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atlas zu dem zweiten Bande des Berichtes über die Welt-Ausstellung zu Paris im Jahre 1867 (Wilhelm Braumüller, K.K. Hof- und Universitäts-Buchhändler, 1867), by Wilhelm Braunmüller and K.K. Österreichisches Central-Comité (page images at HathiTrust)
• The latest milestones in the history of civilization " the world moves by the creative power of man" (s.n., 1918), by Alexander Emerson Belcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inventions in the century (Linscott, 1903), by William H. Doolittle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The energy-related inventions program. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1992), by National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technology, innovation and regional economic development : Census of state government initiatives for high-technology industrial development. (Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment :, 1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Wissenschaften im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, ihr Standpunkt und die Resultate ihrer Forschungen: eine Rundschau zur Belehrung fuer das gebildete Publikum. (Leipzig, Romberg's Verlag, 1856), by Johannes Andreas Romberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waves of creative destruction : customer bases and the dynamics of innovation (National Bureau of Economic Research, 1994), by Jeremy C. Stein and National Bureau of Economic Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technology transfer and technological learning through CERN's procurement activity (CERN, 2003), by Erkko Autio, Ari-Pekka Hameri, M. Bianchi-Streit, and European Organization for Nuclear Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advances in agricultural technology. A.A.T.-N.C. (Agricultural Research (North Central Region), Science and Education Administration, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1979), by United States. Science and Education Administration, United States. Agricultural Research Service. North Central Region, and United States. Science and Education Administration. Agricultural Research. North Central Region (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information and telecommunications : an overview of issues, technologies, and applications : report for the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session (U.S. G.P.O., 1981), by Jean-Paul Emard, Library of Congress. Science Policy Research Division, and Research United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• High technology development ([Washington, D.C.] : Major Issues System, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1983., 1983), by Wendy H. Schacht and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social science approaches to innovation and productivity (Washington, D.C. : Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1986., 1986), by Christine Matthews Rose and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Background information on impact of automation and technological change on employment and unemployment : prepared for use by the State Employment Security Agencies. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Employment Security, 1961), by United States. Bureau of Employment Security (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address, delivered at the opening of the twenty-first annual fair of the American Institute, of the City of New-York : at Castle Garden, October 3, 1848. (Van Norden & Amerman, Printers, no. 60 William-Street., 1848), by John Overton Choules and American Institute of the City of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventions : pamphlet volume. (1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
• What OTA is, what OTA does, how OTA works. (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, 1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• What O.T.A. is, what O.T.A. does, how O.T.A. works (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, 1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• What O.T.A. is, what O.T.A. does, how O.T.A. works (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• What OTA is, what OTA does, how OTA works. (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• What OTA is, what OTA does, how OTA works. (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• What it is, what it does, how it works (The Office, 1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• What OTA is, what OTA does, how OTA works. (Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment, 1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• What O.T.A. is, what O.T.A. does, how OTA works (U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Current assessment activities. (Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment, 1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• AAT-W (Office of the Regional Administrator for Federal Research (Western Region), Science and Education Administration, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture], 1978), by United States. Science and Education Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serving social objectives via technological innovations : possible near-term Federal policy options. (National Science Foundation, Office of National R&D Assessment, 1977), by National R & D Assessment Program (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty five years of reporting down-to-earth benefits (U.S. G.P.O., 1997), by National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Office of Space Access and Technology (page images at HathiTrust)
• What OTA is, what OTA does, how OTA works. (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, in the 20th century), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Global Technology Revolution: Bio/Nano/Materials Trends and Their Synergies with Information Technology by 2015 (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2001), by James Schneider, Philip S. Anton, and Richard Silberglitt (JSTOR ebook)

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