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• Measurement of Blast-Induced Ground Vibrations and Seismograph Calibration (report of investigations #8506; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967), by Mark S. Stagg and Alvin J. Engler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by Manhattan Engineer District (Gutenberg text)

• Vector Polar Method for Shock Interactions With Area Disturbances (technical note DR 4; Berkeley: University of California, 1959), by Antoni K. Oppenheim and Paul A. Urtiew (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Decay of Plane Shock Waves (Ballistic Research Laboratories report #423, 1943), by S. Chandrasekhar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Effects of Federal Policies on Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

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• The Theory of Plasma Waves (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1962), by Thomas Howard Stix (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coupled Mode and Parametric Electronics (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, c1960), by William H. Louisell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Electrical Noise (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1960), by William R. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Television Interference Handbook (second edition; Redding Ridge, CT: Nelson Pub. Co., c1960), by Philip S. Rand (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Basic Electrical Measurements (second edition; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960), by Melville B. Stout (page images at HathiTrust)

• Audio Measurements (New York: Gernsback Library, c1958), by Norman H. Crowhurst (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Microwave Measurements (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1957), by Edward L. Ginzton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4 volumes; Boston: Estes and Lauriat, ca. 1870-1875), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Calibration of Commercial Radio Field-Strength Meters at the National Bureau of Standards (National Bureau of Standards circular 517; 1951), by Frank M. Greene (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Standards on Radio Wave Propagation: Measuring Methods (1942), by Institute of Radio Engineers
  • PDF at worldradiohistory.com
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Automatic Frequency Control Systems (New York: J. F. Rider, c1937), by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Operator's and Organizational Maintenance Manual: Audio Oscillators TS-382A/U, TS-382B/U, TS-382D/U, TS-382E/U, and TS-382F/U (originally published 1961; includes looseleaf updates from up to 1974), by United States Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• Microwave Processing of Materials (1994), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Introduction to Microwaves (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963), by Gershon J. Wheeler, ed. by Irving L. Kosow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microwave Ferrites and Ferrimagnetics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, c1962), by Benjamin Lax and Kenneth J. Button (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microwave Principles (Princeton, NJ et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1957), by Herbert J. Reich, John G. Skalnik, Philip F. Ordung, and Herbert L. Krauss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microwave Circuit Theory and Analysis (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1963), by Rabindra N. Ghose (page images at HathiTrust)

• Microwave Processing of Materials (1994), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• High Power Microwaves: Strategic and Operational Implications for Warfare (Occasional Paper #11; Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Center for Strategy and Technology, Air War College, Air University, 2000), by Eileen M. Walling
  • PDF at webharvest.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Microwave Circuit Theory and Analysis (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1963), by Rabindra N. Ghose (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theory and Application of Ferrites (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960), by Ronald F. Soohoo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microwave Ferrites and Ferrimagnetics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, c1962), by Benjamin Lax and Kenneth J. Button (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nonlinear Oscillations (Princeton et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1962), by Nicolai Minorsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• Phonophotography in Folk Music: American Negro Songs in New Notation (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1928), by Milton Metfessel, contrib. by Carl E. Seashore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mechanical Vibration (1912), by Mary Lydia Hastings Arnold Snow (HTML at Early American Manual Therapy)
• Vibratory Technique (1914), by Benjamin Houston Brown (HTML at Early American Manual Therapy)

• Random Vibration in Mechanical Systems (New York and London: Academic Press, 1963), by Stephen H. Crandall and William D. Mark (page images at HathiTrust)

• Acoustic Design Charts (Philadelphia: The Blakiston Co., c1942), by Frank Massa
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• HARPA: A Versatile Three-Dimensional Hamiltonian Ray-Tracing Program for Acoustic Waves in the Atmosphere Above Irregular Terrain (Boulder, CO: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Research Laboratories, 1986), by R. Michael Jones, J. P. Riley, and T. M. Georges (page images at HathiTrust)

• HARPA: A Versatile Three-Dimensional Hamiltonian Ray-Tracing Program for Acoustic Waves in the Atmosphere Above Irregular Terrain (Boulder, CO: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Research Laboratories, 1986), by R. Michael Jones, J. P. Riley, and T. M. Georges (page images at HathiTrust)

• Scattering and Radiation From Circular Cylinders and Spheres: Tables of Amplitudes and Phase Angles (Washington: U.S. Navy Dept., Office of Research and Inventions, 1946), by Mathematical Tables Project (U.S.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Underwater Sound Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Theory of Plasma Waves (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1962), by Thomas Howard Stix (page images at HathiTrust)

• Large-Scale Structures in Acoustics and Electromagnetics: Proceedings of a Symposium (1996), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

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

• Basic Audio (3 volumes in 1; New York: J. F. Rider, c1959), by Norman H. Crowhurst (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Acoustic Design Charts (Philadelphia: The Blakiston Co., c1942), by Frank Massa
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Audio Measurements (New York: Gernsback Library, c1958), by Norman H. Crowhurst (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• The Art and Science of Audio Book Production (1995), by Billy R. West (HTML at loc.gov)
• How to Service Tape Recorders (New York: J. F. Rider, c1954), by C. A. Tuthill (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Home Truths? Video Production and Domestic Life (c2011), by David Buckingham, Rebekah Willett, and Maria Pini (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.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)

• Toward a National Strategy for Noise Control (1977), by United States Office of Noise Abatement and Control
  • main report: page images at HathiTrust
  • addendum: page images at HathiTrust

• The Flexural Bar Transducer (Newport, RI: Naval Underwater Systems Center, ca. 1986), by Ralph Storrer Woollett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vibration Level Data: Brighton-New York City Transit Authority (final report prepared for the US Dept. of Transportation, UMTA-MA-0099-81-2; 1981), by Edward J. Rickley and Norman E. Rice (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mathematical Theory of Vibration in Suspension Bridges: A Contribution to the Work of the Advisory Board on the Investigation of Suspension Bridges (Washington: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads, 1950), by Friedrich Bleich, Conde B. McCullough, Richard Rosecrans, and George S. Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

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