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Fluid power technology

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• Fluid mechanics

• Hydraulic machinery
• Pneumatic machinery

• Hydraulic power technology

• Exposition of the Principles of Abbott's Hydraulic Engine (Boston: S. R. Hart, 1835), by John Abbott (page images at Google)

• Cameron Hydraulic Data: A Handy Reference on the Subjects of Hydraulics, Steam, and Water Vapor (11th edition; Phillipsburg, NJ: Compressed Air Magazine Co., c1942), ed. by G. V. Shaw and A. W. Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Steam, Air and Gas Power (fourth edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1948), by William H. Severns and Howard Edward Degler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hydrodynamics of Pumps (1994), by Christopher E. Brennen (illustrated HTML and PDF files at Caltech)

• Replacing Gasoline: Alternative Fuels for Light-Duty Vehicles (OTA-E-364; 1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aero Engines, Magnetos and Carburetors (New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Harold Pollard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Concours International de Moteurs et Appareils Utilisant l'Alcool Dénaturé Ayant eu Lieu à Paris en Mai 1902: Rapports des Jurys (in French; Paris: Imp. Nationale, 1902), contrib. by Max Ringelmann, L. Lindet, E. Sorel, and H. De la Valette
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some illustrations and figures omitted
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Miner's Friend: or, An Engine to Raise Water by Fire Described, by Thomas Savery (multiple formats at Google)

• An Assessment of Techniques for Removing Offshore Structures (1996), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (2011), by United States National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (PDF with commentary at govinfo.gov)
• Confronting Space Debris: Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon (c2010), by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• An Assessment of Techniques for Removing Offshore Structures (1996), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Rigs-to-Reefs: The Use of Obsolete Petroleum Structures as Artificial Reefs (New Orleans: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Regional Office, 1987), by Villere Reggio (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Canadian Achievement: The Delivery of Alberta Crude Oil at Sarnia, Ontario, April 24th, 1951 (1951), by Imperial Oil Limited (HTML at peel.library.ualberta.ca)

• Coatings for High-Temperature Structural Materials: Trends and Opportunities (1996), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Theory and Design of Steam and Gas Turbines (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1954), by John F. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Control of Aircraft and Missile Powerplants: An Introduction to the Analysis and Design of Engine Control Systems (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, 1963), by Albert J. Sobey and Alfred M. Suggs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Steam Turbine Performance and Economics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Robert L. Bartlett, contrib. by Mulder J. E. and R. C. Sheldon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory and Design of Steam and Gas Turbines (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1954), by John F. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Steam Turbine: The Rede Lecture, 1911 (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1911), by Charles Parsons (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Communicated Disease (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2017), by Simon Chapman and Fiona Crichton (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press and JSTOR)

• Assessment of Research Needs for Wind Turbine Rotor Materials Technology (1991), by National Research Council Energy Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
  • searchable HTML with commentary at Bartleby
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text

• Exposition of the Principles of Abbott's Hydraulic Engine (Boston: S. R. Hart, 1835), by John Abbott (page images at Google)

• Aerodynamics of a Tilting Ducted Fan Configuration (NASA Technical note D-785; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Paul F. Yaggy and Kenneth W. Goodson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aerodynamics of a Tilting Ducted Fan Configuration (NASA Technical note D-785; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Paul F. Yaggy and Kenneth W. Goodson (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Ways: Tiltrotor Aircraft and Magnetically Levitated Vehicles (OTA-SET-507; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

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

• Fluid Mechanics (New York et al.: Wiley, c1961), by Richard H. F. Pao (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory of the Fluid Oscillations in a Circular Cylindrical Ring Tank Partially Filled With Liquid (NASA technical note D-557; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960), by Helmut F. Bauer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hydrodynamics: A Study in Logic, Fact, and Similitude (New York, Dover Publications, 1955), by Garrett Birkhoff (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging of Navigational Facilities in Estuaries, by National Research Council Committee on Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging in Estuaries (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging of Navigational Facilities in Estuaries, by National Research Council Committee on Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging in Estuaries (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Fluid Replacement and Heat Stress (1994), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Noble Gases (proceedings from a 1973 symposium; Washington: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1975), ed. by Richard E. Stanley and A. Alan Moghissi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ozone Depletion, Greenhouse Gases, and Climate Change, by National Research Council (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (partial serial archives)
• Nagare (partial serial archives)

• Basics of Fluid Mechanics (online editions; latest version c2021), by Genick Bar-Meir (HTML with commentary at potto.org)

• The Role of Fluids in Crustal Processes (1990), by National Research Council Geophysics Study Committee (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Swirling Flows and Flames (2019), ed. by Toufik Boushaki (illustrated HTML with commentary at intechnopen.com)
• Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958), by James George Knudsen and Donald L. Katz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rock Fractures and Fluid Flow: Contemporary Understanding and Applications (1996), by National Research Council Committee on Fracture Characterization and Fluid Flow (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Bioprocessing Pipelines: Rheology and Analysis (2006), by James Freeman Steffe and Christopher R. Daubert (PDF at MSU)
• K-FIX: A Computer Program for Transient, Two-Dimensional, Two-Fluid Flow; THREED: An Extension of the K-FIX Code for Three Dimensional Calculations (Washington: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1979), by W. C. Rivard and M. D. Torrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natural Aerodynamics (New York et al.: Pergamon Press, c1958), by R. S. Scorer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Water Hammer: With Special Reference to the Researches of Professor N. Joukovsky (St. Louis: Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Water Works Association, 1904), by O. Simin, contrib. by N. S. Zhukovskii (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and Practice of Flow Meter Engineering (seventh edition; Foxboro, MA: The Foxboro Co., 1949), by L. K. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II, Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Upon, and Submersion in, the Water (translation of the second Italian edition; London: W. Leybourn, 1667), by Galileo Galilei, trans. by Thomas Salusbury (Gutenberg text and decorated HTML)
• Hydrostatics and Pneumatics (8th edition; London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891), by Philip Magnus
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Ballistic Range Measurements of Stagnation-Point Heat Transfer in Air and Carbon Dioxide at Velocities up to 18,000 Feet per Second (NASA technical note D-777; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Layton Yee, Harry E. Bailey, and Henry T. Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)

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