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• Musical inventions and patents
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• Technology transfer
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• Marvels of Modern Science (1910), by Paul Severing, ed. by Theodore Waters (Gutenberg text)
• The Boyhood of an Inventor (1931), by C. Francis Jenkins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Great Inventors and Their Inventions (1918), by Frank P. Bachman (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), by W. K.-L. Dickson and Antonia Dickson, illust. by R. F. Outcalt, L. Bauhan, and James Ricalton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Industrial Progress (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1904), by Charles Henry Cochrane
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• The Romance of Research (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., in cooperation with the Century of Progress Exposition, 1933), by L. V. Redman and A. V. H. Mory (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of modern mechanism. A résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science. (J.B. Lippincott company, 1896), by Charles Henry Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to make inventions; or, Inventing as a science and an art. (D. Van Nostrand co., 1893), by Edward P. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The influence of invention on civilization (World publishing company, 1942), by M. D. C. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings and addresses. Celebration of the beginning of the second century of the American patent system at Washington City, D.C. April 8, 9, 10, 1891. (Press of Gedney & Roberts co., 1892), by D.C) Patent Centennial Celebration (1891 : Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• My half century as an inventor ([Mail and express printing co., inc.], 1938), by Frederick L. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jahrbuch der technik. : Technik und industrie. (Dieck & co., 1914), by Hanns Günther (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Men and machines (The Macmillan Company, 1929), by Stuart Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men and machines (New York : The Macmillan Company, MCMXXX [1935], 1935), by Stuart Chase, Walter Tandy Murch, and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Invention and society (American library association, 1930), by Waldemar Kaempffert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Science: the false messiah (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1927), by Clarence Edwin Ayres (page images at HathiTrust)
• The industrial revolution (F. S. Crofts, 1928), by Witt Bowden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ludwig Darmstaedters Handbuch zur geschichte der naturwissenschaften und der technik. In chronologischer darstellung. (J. Springer, 1908), by Ludwig Darmstaedter, D. C. Schaefer, and R. Du Bois-Reymond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lexikon der erfindungen und entdeckungen auf den gebieten der naturwissenschaften und technik in chronologischer übersicht mit personen- und sachregister (C. Winter, 1904), by Franz M. Feldhaus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern views of physical science : being a record of the proceedings of the centenary meeting of the Franklin Institute at Philadelphia, September 17, 18 and 19, 1924 (The FranklinInstitute, 1925), by Ellwood Hendrick and Pa.) Franklin Institute (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Knight's new mechanical dictionary. A description of tools, instruments, machines, processes, and engineering. With indexical references to technical journals (1876-1880.) (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1884), by Edward H. Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discoveries and inventions; a lecture (J. Howell, 1915), by Abraham Lincoln and John Howell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventors and inventions. (McGraw-Hill, 1957), by C. D. Tuska (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ruhmesblätter der technik von den urerfindungen bis zur gegenwart. (F. Brandstetter, 1910), by Franz M. Feldhaus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century. (D. Appleton and company, 1860), by Frederick C. Bakewell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of industry and invention (W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1896), by Robert Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marvels of scientific invention; an interesting account in non-technical language of the invention of guns, torpedoes, submarines, mines, up-to-date smelting, freezing, colour photography, and many other recent discoveries of science (J. B. Lippincott;, 1917), by Thomas W. Corbin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conquests of invention; Cyrus H. McCormick, Elias Howe, Thomas A. Edison, William Murdock, Robert Fulton, Guglielmo Marconi, Charles Goodyear, George Westinghouse, Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell (The Century co., 1921), by Mary Rosetta Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The age of invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest (Yale University Press, 1921), by Holland Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discoveries and inventions of the twentieth century (G. Routledge and Sons, limited;, 1923), by Edward Cressy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beiträge zur geschichte der gewerbe und erfindungen Oesterreichs von der mitte des XVIII. jahrhunderts bis zur gegenwart (W. Braumüller, 1873), by Vienna International Exhibition (1873) and Wilhelm Franz Exner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origins of invention: a study of industry among primitive peoples (W. Scott, 1895), by Otis T. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• New world of machines; research, discovery, invention (Random house, 1945), by Harland Manchester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of invention, told by inventors and their friends (Roberts brothers, 1885), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Man, the miracle maker (H. Liveright, 1928), by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The outlook for research and invention, with an appendix of problems awaiting solutions (D. Van Nostrand company, 1919), by Nevil Monroe Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Industrial research (Chemical Publishing, 1942), by F. Russell Bichowsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nature of patentable invention, its attributes and definition (Addison-Wesley Press, 1945), by John E. R. Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patents: invention and method. (The Open court company, 1924), by Harold Edwin Potts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bitter bitter cry of the outcast inventors. (The Strand publishing company, 1885), by Thomas Waghorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Making inventions pay : a practical guide to selling, protecting, manufacturing, and marketing your inventions (Whittlesey House, 1950), by Joseph C. Keeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to keep invention records, together with an explanation of the nature of industrial property. (Research Press, 1948), by Harry Aubrey Toulmin (page images at HathiTrust)
• 2100 needed inventions (Wilfred Funk, 1946), by Raymond F. Yates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Government owned inventions available for license; a list of 3,658 patents arranged by industrial use (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1953), by United States. Government Patents Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patent fundamentals (Chemical Pub. Co., 1941), by Leon H. Amdur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economics of our patent system (The Macmillan Company, 1925), by Floyd L. Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventions and their protection (The Penton Publishing Co., 1938), by George Victor Woodling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventions and their protection. (C. Boardman Co., 1954), by George Victor Woodling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to the Centennial Exhibition (Printed for the author at "The Nation" Press, 1876), by John Ericsson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young. (Harper & Brothers, 1860), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• A popular history of American invention. (C. Scribner's sons, 1924), by Waldemar Bernhard Kaempfert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of culture : how man invented his way to civilization (Greenberg, 1938), by M. D. C. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life, times and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester. (Quaritch, 1865), by Henry Dircks and Edward Somerset Worcester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Science and the industries (National research council, 1920), by John J. Carty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great inventions ([Smithsonion institution series], 1934), by Charles Greeley Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The century of inventions of the Marquis of Worcester. From the original ms. with historical and explanatory notes and a biographical memoir. (J. Murray, 1825), by Edward Somerset Worcester and Charles Frederick Partington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ricerche storico-critico-scientifiche sulle origini, scoperte, invenzioni e perfezionamenti fattinelle lettere, nelle arti e nelle acienze; con alcuni tratti biografici della vita del piu distinti autori nelle medesime. (C. Pirotta, 1828), by Giacinto Amati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les merveilles de la science, ou Description populaire des inventions modernes (Furne, Jouvet et cie, 1870), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventions and patents : their development and promotion (McGraw-Hill, 1927), by Milton Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breves disertaciónes sobre algunos descubrimientos e invenciónes debidos a la España. (Impr. de la Viuda de R.J. Dominguez, 1849), by Ramón Ruiz de Eguilaz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundlinien einer philosophie der technik. Zur entstehungsgeschichte der cultur aus neuen gesichtspunkten ... (G. Westermann, 1877), by Ernst Kapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le grandi invenzioni antiche e moderne; opera compilata da B. Besso. (Fratelli Treves, 1879), by Beniamino Besso (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great inventions: their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal investors. (J.A. Ruth, 1883), by Franc B. Wilkie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les grandes inventions anciennes et modernes dans les sciences, l'industrie et les arts (L. Hachette et cie, 1870), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of modern mechanism. : A resume of progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science at the dawn of the twentieth century (J. B. Lippincott company, 1904), by Charles Henry Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of modern mechanism. A resume of progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science at the dawn of the twentieth century (J. B. Lippincott company, 1909), by Charles Henry Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peaks of invention (The Century co., 1929), by Joseph Leeming (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The age of invention; a chronicle of mechanical conquest (Yale University Press; [etc., etc.], 1921), by Holland Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventions of the great war (The Century Co., 1920), by A. Russell Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of a father and son; or, "Unscrewing the inscrutable". (Cambridge, Mass., 1940), by Elliott Addressing Machine Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• "800 new things coming after the war," (The Business bourse, 1944), by New York Business bourse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Triumphs of science (Ginn & company, 1903), by Martha Luther Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
• American inventions and inventors (Silver, Burdett and Company, 1910), by William A. Mowry and Arthur May Mowry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of inventors; the adventures of inventors and engineers. True incidents and personal experiences (Doubleday, Page & co., 1904), by Russell Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die technik des erfindens. (K. Zeleny & co., 1929), by Jakob Haböck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inventors & inventions (H. Robinson, 1911), by Henry Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preventing publication of inventions and prohibiting injunctions on patents. Hearings before the Committee on patents, House of representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, first session, on H. R. 3359, a bill to amend the act relating to preventing the publication of inventions in the national interest, and for other purposes; and H. R. 3360, a bill prohibiting issuance and enforcement of injunctions on patents when necessary in the interest of national defense. February 20, 25, 26, 27, March 11, 12, 19, 20, April 22, 23, 1941. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1941), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über das Kitâb al ḥijal--das werk über die sinnreichen Anordnungen--der Benû Mûsâ (M. Mencke, 1922), by Friedrich Hauser, fl. 9th century Ḥasan ibn Mūsa ibn Shākir, fl. 9th century Aḥmad ibn Mūsa ibn Shākir, and fl. 9th century Muḥammad ibn Mūsa ibn Shākir (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The boy's own book of great inventions (The Macmillan company, 1918), by Floyd L. Darrow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Giwterun patmutʻiwně hin zhamanaknerēn minchʻew mer atennerě. (880-02 Viēnna : Pashtpan S. Astuatsatsni vankʻě, 1854., 1854), by Mechitarists (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ideal home educator : a superb library of useful knowledge : forty great books in one volume : containing the story of the Russian Revolutionary Movement and the war with Japan ; concise and exhaustive articles upon history, science, arts and mechanics, underground transit, aerial transportation, submarine navigation, automobile touring, wireless telegraphy, etc., etc., ; marvelous peculiarities of the strange people and countries of the world : the latest discoveries and inventions depicting the development and application of the great natural forces and principles utilized by mankind ; the culmulation of centuries of human effort : a complete encyclopedia of the great industries of this age, a graphic account of the gigantic consolidations and combinations of world-wide influence, and the the commercial and mechanical methods of the world's great industries including a valuable list of review questions for students (Bible House, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patenting and promoting inventions. (B.C. Forbes Pub., Co., inc., 1922), by Moïs H. Avram (page images at HathiTrust)
• American mechanical dictionary. (Hurd and Houghton, 1877), by Edward Henry Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes, and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary, and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts (Houghton, Mifflin, 1876), by Edward Henry Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychologie de l'invention (F. Alcan, 1901), by Fr. Paulhan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Information bulletin. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1941), by United States. National Inventors Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mechanic, or, Compendium of practical inventions : containing two hundred and fifteen articles, selected and original. Arranged under the following heads: I. Manufacture and trade, II. Philosophical apparatus and the fine arts, III. Rural and domestic economy, and miscellanies ... with a copious analytical index (Printed at Caxton Press, by Henry Fisher, 1822), by James Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Government-owned inventions for free use : 2339 patents available to manufacturers (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1951), by United States. Government Patents Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new world of science; its development during the war (The Century co., 1920), by Robert Mearns Yerkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• American inventions and inventors (Silver, Burdett and company, 1900), by William A. Mowry and Arthur May Mowry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les applications nouvelles de la science á l'industrie et aux arts en 1855 (V. Masson [etc.], 1857), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (G. Routledge, 1881), by Robert Routledge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Neue Buch der Erfindungen, Gewerbe und Industrien. Rundschau auf allen Gebieten der gewerblichen Arbeit. (O. Spamer, 1872), by C. Birnbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die wunder um uns : neue einblicke in natur und technik (Vita, Deutsches Verlagshous, 1911), by Artur Fürst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Buch der erfindungen, gewerbe und industrien. Rundschau auf allen gebieten der gewerblichen arbeit. In verbindung mit professor Dr. C. Birnbaum, ingenieur Sz. Flemming ... Jul. Zöllner u.a. hrsg. von professor F. Reuleaux ... (O. Spamer, 1889), by F. Reuleaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Invention and the law (Prentice-Hall, 1936), by Harry Aubrey Toulmin and United States Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'intuition dans les découvertes et inventions; ses rapports avec le positivisme et le Darwinisme. (Treuttel et Wurtz, 1879), by Abraham Netter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ruhmesblätter der technik von den urefindungen bis zur gegenwart (F. Brandstetter, 1924), by Franz M. Feldhaus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Man's venture in culture; some inventions underlying civilization in Illinois of today. (Springfield, 1950), by Thorne Deuel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful inventions : from the mariner's compass to the electric telegraph cable (G. Routledge, 1868), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twentieth century inventions; a forecast (Longmans, Green, and co., 1901), by George Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanical inventions of to-day; interesting descriptions of modern mechanical inventions told in non-technical language (J. B. Lippincott company;, 1912), by Thomas W. Corbin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The wonders of modern mechanism. A résumé of progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science at the dawn of the twentieth century. (J.B. Lippincott company, 1900), by Charles Henry Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust)
• A calendar of invention and discovery. (McGraw, 1903), by John Cassan Wait (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosités des inventions et découvertes. (Paulin et Le Chevalier ..., 1855), by Edouard Fournier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of invention told by inventors and their friends (Roberts Brothers, 1891), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventions of the great war (The Century co., 1919), by A. Russell Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventions; their development, purchase and sale (Van Nostrand, 1920), by William E. Baff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Geschichte der Entdeckungen und Erfindungen von den ersten Anfängen der Menschheit bis auf unsere Tage. (Wigand, 1853), by C. G. Rehlen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of modern invention, containing interesting descriptions in non-technical language of wireless telegraphy, liquid air, modern artillery, submarines, dirigible torpedoes, solar motors, airships, &c. &c. (Seeley, Service & co., ltd., 1923), by Archibald Williams and Thomas W. Corbin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inventions and patents (D. Van Nostrand Company, 1915), by Philip E. Edelman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of remarkable machinery (G.G. Harrap & company ltd., 1928), by Ellison Hawks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The marvels of modern mechanism and their relations to social betterment (The King-Richardson company, 1901), by Jerome Bruce Crabtree (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boyhood of an inventor ([Printed by National capital press, inc.], 1931), by C. Francis Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Man, the miracle maker (H. Liveright, 1928), by Hendrik William Van Loon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das buch der erfindungen. (O. Spamer, 1854), by Louis Thomas and Leo Bergmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Things unattempted yet, speculations on some possibilities of human achievement and adventure both in the near and in the more remote future (The Hassell press, 1924), by Kerr Grant and University of Adelaide (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voordragten over den eigendom van voortbrengselen van den geest (A.C. Kruseman, 1856), by Jan Heemskerk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The deluged civilization of the Caucasus isthmus (T.J. Russell print, 1923), by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die nationalökonomische Theorie der ausschliessenden Absazverhältnisse inbesondere des litterarisch-artistischen Urheberrechtes, des Patent-, Muster- und Firmenschuzes nebst Beiträgen zur Grundrentenlehre. (H. Laupp, 1867), by A. Schäffle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das neue Buch der Erfindungen, Gewerbe und Industrien. Rundschau auf allen Gebieten der gewerblichen Arbeit. (O. Spamer, 1876), by C. Birnbaum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mélanges physico-mathématiques : ou, Recueil de mémoires, contenant la description de plusieurs machines et instrumens nouveaux, de physique, d'économie domestique, etc. (A. Le Clerc, 1801), by Joseph Balthasar Bérard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature (W. Glaisher, 1907), by J. G. Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les nouvelles inventions aux expositions universelles (E. Flatau, 1857), by M. Jobard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern inventions and discoveries (J. A. Hill and company, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• All about inventions and discoveries; the romance of modern scientific and mechanical achievements (Funk and Wagnalls company, 1916), by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventions, patents and trade-marks, their protection and promotion (a revision and enlargement of Inventions and patents) (McGraw-Hill, 1933), by Milton Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of war inventions; a description of warships, guns, tanks, rifles, bombs, and other instruments and munitions of warfare, how they were invented & how they are employed (Seeley, Service & co. limited, 1918), by Thomas W. Corbin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories of useful inventions (The Century co., 1911), by S. E. Forman (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to make inventions; or, Inventing as a science and an art. A practical guide for inventors. (D. Van Nostrand co., 1891), by Edward P. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An exact reprint of the famous Century of inventions (Industrial Publication Co., 1887), by Edward Somerset Worcester and John Phin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic inventions (G. W. Jacobs & company, 1911), by Rupert Sargent Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of modern invention, containing interesting descriptions in non-technical language of wireless telegraphy, liquid air, modern artillery, submarines, dirigible torpedoes, solar motors, airships, etc., etc. (Seeley, 1907), by Archibald Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great inventions (Smithsonian Institution Series, Inc.], 1938), by C. G. Abbot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wonders of science and invention (The after school club, 1909), by Daniel Edwin Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inventor's manual : how to work a patent to make it pay (J.F. Davison & Co., 1889), by George M. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposition et histoire des principales découvertes scientifiques modernes. (V. Mason [etc.], 1858), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposition et histoire des principales découvertes scientifiques modernes. (Garnier, 1862), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patenting and promoting inventions (B.C. Forbes Pub. Co., 1920), by Moïs H. Avram (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to keep invention records, together with an explanation of the nature of industrial property (D. Appleton and company, 1920), by Harry Aubrey Toulmin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tablettes de l'inventeur et de du breveté : a l'sage de ceux qui veulent obtenir ou qui possèdent un brevet d'invention en France ou a l'etranger (C. Thirion, 1865), by Ch Thirion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Offenkundiges Vorbenutztsein von Erfindungen : als Hindernisse für die Patentertheilung und als Nichtigkeitsgrund für Patente (Julius Springer, 1901), by Hugo Erich von Boehmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Register of arts (Published by C. and A. Conrad, and Co., 1808), by Thomas Green Fessenden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ricerche storico-critico-scientifiche sulle origini, scoperte, invenzioni e perfezionamenti fatti nelle lettere, nelle arti e nelle scienze (Coi tioi di G. Pirotta, 1828), by Giacinto Amati and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secrets modernes des arts et métiers, ouvrage comprenant les découvertes les plus récentes dans les arts industriels, et leurs applications; la description des brevêts d'inventions obtenus depuis plus de vingt ans; les procédés employés dans les plus célèbres manufactures de la France et de l'Angleterre; la théorie de la fabrication des couleurs, des vernis, des mastics, du papier, des colles, etc. (Librairie de Maison, 1840), by Edmond Pelouze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (G. Routledge and Sons, 1903), by Robert Routledge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of wonderful inventions. (Harper & brothers, 1849), by Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (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)
• Great inventors and their inventions (American Book Company, 1918), by Frank Puterbaugh Bachman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boy's book of inventions; stories of the wonders of modern science (Doubleday & McClure co., 1899), by Ray Stannard Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of modern marvels. (Leslie-Judge company, 1917), by Waldemar Kaempffert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les grandes inventions modernes dans les sciences, l'industrie et les arts (Hachette, 1886), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merveilles du génie de l'homme, découvertes, inventions. Récits historiques, amusants et instructifs sur l'origie et l'état actuel des découvertes et inventions les plus célèbres (P. Boizard, 1852), by Amédée de Bast and England) International Exhibition (1851 : London (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... The boy with the U. S. inventors (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard co., 1920), by Francis Rolt-Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern industrial progress (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1911), by Charles Henry Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Buch der Erfindungen, Gewerbe und Industrien. Rundschau auf allen Gebieten der gewerblichen Arbeit. (O. Spamer, 1884), by F. Reuleaux, Julius Zöllner, and C. Birnbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discoveries and inventions of the twentieth century (E.P. Dutton;, 1915), by Edward Cressy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les nouvelles conquêtes de la science (Librarie illustrés, 1884), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (G. Routledge and Sons, 1905), by Robert Routledge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Maravillas de la ciencia (Sucesores de Manuel Soler, 1912), by Joaquín Usunáriz Bernat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories of useful inventions (The Century co., 1914), by S. E. Forman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of modern invention, containing interesting descriptions in non-technical language of wireless telegraphy, liquid air, modern artillery, submarines, dirigible torpedoes, solar motors, airships, etc., etc. (Seeley, 1910), by Archibald Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boys' second book of inventions (McClure, Phillips & co., 1903), by Ray Stannard Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die duetsche technik in weltkriege (Verlag "Naturwissenschaften" g.m.b.h., 1916), by Heinrich Müller-Breslau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Physik im Kriege, eine allegemein verständliche Darstellung der grundlagen moderner Kriegstechnik (G. Fischer, 1917), by Felix Auerbach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An historical account of inventions and discoveries in those arts and sciences, which are of utility or ornament to man, lend assistance to human comfort, a polish to life, and render the civilized state, beyond comparison, preferable to a state of nature (Printed for T. and J. Allman, 1820), by J. F. Lake Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Administration of certain inventions and patents by Federal Trade Commission : joint hearings before the Committees on Patents of the Senate and House of Representatives, sixty-sixth Congress, first session on S. 3223, H.R. 9932, an act authorizing the Federal Trade Commission to accept and administer for the benefit of the public and the encouragement of industry, inventions, patents, and patent rights, and for other purposes. November 5, 1919. (Govt. Print. Off., 1919), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century. (G. Routledge and sons, 1876), by Robert Routledge and John Henry Pepper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (G. Routledge, 1891), by Robert Routledge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annali universali di tecnologia, di agricoltura, di economia rurale e domestica, di arti e di mestieri. (Editori degli Annali universali di medicina ..., 1826), by Luigi Bossi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annali universali : 1 ̊di agricoltura, economia rurale e domestica .... (Editori degli Annali universali delle scienze e dell'industria, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annali universali di agricoltura, economia rurale e domestica, arti e mestieri. (Editori degli Annali universali delle scienze e dell'industria, 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annali universali di agricoltura, industria ed arti economiche (Società degli Annali universali delle scienze e dell'industria, 1831), by Luigi Bossi (page images at HathiTrust)
• First lines of science : or, A comprehensive and progressive view of the leading branches of modern scientific discovery and invention (T. Tegg, 1827), by James Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ... (A. J. Holman & Co., 1899), by James P. Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of culture; how man invented his way to civilization. (Fairchild Pub. Co., 1948), by M. D. C. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress. (Holman, 1901), by James P. Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The inventors and inventions of Cayuga County, N.Y. (The author, 1882), by Cyrenus Wheeler and David M. Osborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home school of the century's progress (A. J. Holman & co., 1901), by James P Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christoph Gottlieb von Murr, der Reichsstadt Nürnberg Waag- und Zollamtmanns, Ehrenmitglieds des Königlichen historischen Institus zu Göttingen, der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, und der Akademie der Alterthümer in Caasel [et]c. (J.E. Zeh, 1778), by Christoph Gottlieb von Murr and Johann Eberhard Zeh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les grandes inventions anciennes et modernes dans les sciences, l'industrie et les arts (Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1867), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
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• The new industrialism. Part 1: The age of invention (Yale university press; [etc., etc., 1926), by Holland Thompson and Burton J. Hendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur les conditions postives de l'invention dans les sciences (F. Alcan, 1928), by Jacques Picard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Merveilles du génie de l'homme, découvertes, inventions, récits, historiques, amusants et instructifs sur l'origine et l'état actuel des découvertes et inventions les plus célèbres. (P. Boizard, 1855), by Amédée Bast (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventions, patents and trade-marks, their protection and promotion (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1933), by Milton Wright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Patenting and promoting inventions, by Moïs H. Avram. (B. C. Forbes Publishing company, 1922), by Moïs H. Avram (page images at HathiTrust)
• Invention and discovery (Groombridge, 1865), by Ralph Temple and Chandos Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polizei und technik (Gersbach & sohn, 1926), by Franz M. Feldhaus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les curieuses origines des inventions et découvertes. (A. Mame, 1848), by Ernest Soulange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'origine des inventions, des découvertes et des institutions humaines. (E. Plon et cie, 1875), by D. Ramée (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buch der erfindungen. Ausgabe in einem bande, unter mitwirkung von Prof. Dr. Lassar-Cohn und Hauptmann a.D. J. Castner (O. Spamer, 1901), by D. J. Castner, Dr. Lassar-Cohn, and Wilhelm Berdrow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ludwig Darmstaedters Handbuch zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik : In chronologischer Darstellung (Kraus Reprint Co., 1978), by Ludwig Darmstaedter, D. C. Schaefer, and R. Du Bois-Reymond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A thousand needed inventions (Bureau of Inventive Science, 1925), by Raymond F. Yates (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mechanic; or, Compendium of practical inventions: containing two hundred and fifteen articles, selected and original. Arranged under the following heads: I. Manufacture and trade, II. Philosophical apparatus and the fine arts, III. Rural and domestic economy, and miscellanies ... with a copious analytical index. (Printed at Caxton Press, by H. Fisher, 1825), by James Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanical inventions of to-day; interesting descriptions of modern mechanical inventions told in non-technical language (Seeley, Service & Co., Ltd., 1912), by Thomas W. Corbin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Triumphs of invention (Blackie and son limited, 1920), by Cyril Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to succeed as an inventor; showing the wonderful possibilities in the field of invention; the dangers to be avoided; the inventions needed; how to perfect and develop new ideas to the money making stage (Inventors and Investors Corporation, 1909), by Goodwin Brooke Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tips to inventors (Hamilton Publishing and Reporting Co., 1911), by Joseph H. Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
• All about inventions and discoveries; the romance of modern scientific and mechanical achievements (Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1916), by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• American and foreign patents (G. S. Vashon & co., 1905), by George S. Vashon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great inventions and discoveries (Charles E. Merrill company, 1911), by Willis Duff Piercy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hints to inventors (Inventor publishing co., 1907), by Robert Grimshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to make money out of inventions (C. LeRoi, printer, 1890), by August Schemmel (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to win fortune by inventing; couched in a readable story. (C. S. Labofish, 1911), by Charles Schachan Labofish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventions, how to protect, sell and buy them; a practical and up-to-date guide for inventors and patentees (Spon & Chamberlain; [etc., etc.], 1908), by F. B. Wright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inventions of the great war (The Century co., 1919), by A. Russell Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The register of arts, or A compendious view of some of the most useful modern discoveries and inventions. (Published by C. and A. Conrad, and co., 1808), by Thomas Green Fessenden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of modern invention, containing interesting descriptions in non-technical language of wireless telegraphy, liquid air, modern artillery, submarines, dirigible torpedoes, solar motors, airships, etc., etc. (J. B. Lippincott company : London, C. A. Pearson, ltd., 1903), by Archibald Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...Stories of great inventors: Fulton, Whitney, Morse, Cooper, Edison (Educational publishing company, 1897), by Hattie E. Macomber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of invention, told by inventors and their friends. (Roberts brothers, 1885), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le type de l'inventeur dans la littérature : amplification d'une conférence faite a l'association des ingénieurs de Bruxelles (Alliance Liégeoise, 1920), by G. vander Haeghen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eureka! : a celebration of American innovation by the U.S. Small Business Administration. (U.S. Small Business Administration, 1982), by United States Small Business Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventors and inventions, in three parts: I. The philosophy of invention ... II. The rights and wrongs of inventors ... III. Early inventors' inventories of secret inventions ... (E. and F.N. Spon, 1867), by Henry Dircks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Photographie. (Langlois et Leclercq : V. Masson, 1851), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le vieux-neuf; histoire ancienne des inventions et découvertes modernes (E. Dentu, 1859), by Edouard Fournier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Triumphs of enterprise, ingenuity and public spirit. (Virtue, 1871), by James Parton (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'inventeur. (A Le Chevalier, 1867), by Yves Guyot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio storico sulla amministrazione finanziera ... (Tip. economia, 1852), by Giuseppe Pecchio (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of modern invention (Lippincott, 1903), by Archibald Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The age of invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest (Glasgow, Brook ;, 1921), by Holland Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (G. Routledge and Sons, 1903), by Robert Routledge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Feldhaus' Buch der Erfindungen. Wie die Technik ward und wuchs. ([Berlin, 1908), by Franz M. Feldhaus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die physik im kriege, eine allgemein verständliche darstellung der grundlagen moderner kriegstechnik (G. Fischer, 1915), by Felix Auerbach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• Knight's American mechanical dictionary. (The Riverside press, 1877), by Edward H. Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boy's book of new inventions (Grosset & Dunlap, 1914), by Harry E. Maule (page images at HathiTrust)
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• All about inventions and discoveries; the romance of modern scientific and mechanical achievements (Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1921), by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buch neuerer erfindungen im XIX Jahrhundert (O. Spamer, 1883), by Louis Thomas, Th. Schwartze, and L. Luckenbacher (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Le vieux-neuf; histoire ancienne des inventions et découvertes modernes. (E. Dentu, 1877), by Edouard Fournier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosities of art : II. Mechanics, manufactures. (s.n., 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boy's book of new inventions. (Doubleday, page & company, 1912), by Harry E. Maule (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Inventions. (Published for the Mentor Association by Double, Page and Co., 1902), by George Iles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boy's book of new inventions (Doubleday, Page, 1915), by Harry E. Maule (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaires des inventions et découvertes anciennes et modernes, dans les sciences, les arts et l'industrie; avec les principales applications aux besoins de la société, et l'exposition tant de leurs procédés, que des perfectionnements ou ils sont parvenus à l'époque actuelle; d'aprés les travaux publiés par des sociétés savantes et par les auteurs les plus estimés dans cette intéressante partie des connaissances humaines (J.-P. Migne, 1852), by Achille Jouffroy and J.-P. Migne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of conference held Monterey, Calif., June 11-14, 1973 ([Washington] : National Bureau of Standards; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1974., 1974), by Calif.) Conference on the Public Need and the Role of the Inventor (1973 : Monterey, Jacob Rabinow, Florence Essers, United States. National Bureau of Standards, and Institute for Applied Technology (U.S.). Office of Invention and Innovation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het nieuwe boek der uitvindingen, naar de diutsche uitgave bewerkt ... (A.W. Sijthoff, 1903), by H. C. Grosjean (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les grandes inventions modernes dans les sciences, l'industrie et les arts (Hachette, 1898), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standard encyclopedia of necessary knowledge; 10 great books in 1 vol. (Clarkson & Cooper, 1904), by Ferdinand Ellsworth Cary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die denkwürdigsten Erfindungen bis zu Ende des XVIII. Jahrhunderts (O. Spamer, 1887), by Louis Thomas, Franz Luckenbacher, and Th. Schwartze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gründliche Erfinder, Astronom und Naturforscher (W. Rade, 1871), by Joseph Sutter (page images at HathiTrust)
• De gli inventori delle cose (Per Filippo e Iacopo Giunti, e fratelli, 1587), by Polydore Vergil and Francesco Baldelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• How and by whom letters patent can be secured for American, foreign and other inventors in the Dominion of Canada also a synopsis of patent laws of all countries in the world with the cost of obtaining patents, &c., &c. (s.n.], 1868), by Charles Legge and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patentees' manual showing how to invent and the manner of securing the invention by letters patent in Canada and foreign countries containing also the patent, trade mark, design and copy-right laws of the Dominion of Canada with synopsis of patent laws of all countries and cost of patents in each (s.n.], 1870), by Charles Legge and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era a volume of original, entertaining, and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ... (A.J. Holman, 1899), by James P. Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• On accidental discoveries. (s.n.], 1891), by Henry Scadding and Canadian Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ... (C.R. Parish, 1899), by James P. Boyd (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)
• Suggestions with reference to the proposed new act respecting letters patent for inventions in the Dominion of Canada (s.n.], 1867), by Charles Legge and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The influence of inventions upon civilization: a paper read before the chiefs and commissioners of the several bureaus of labor statistics in the United States, in Boston, June 20, 1885. (Boston, 1885), by Chauncey Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origins of invention : a study of industry among primitive peoples (W. Scott Ltd., 1902), by Otis T. Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thoughts on the nature of intellectual property and its importance to the state. (J.R. Osgood and company, 1878), by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik. In chronologischer Darstellung. (Springer, 1908), by Ludwig Darmstaedter, D. C. Schaefer, R. Du Bois-Reymond, and R. Du Bois-Reymond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and inventions of Thomas Alva Edision (T. Y. Crowell, 1894), by W. K.-L. Dickson and Antonia Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)
• La ciencia moderna, sus tendencias y cuestiones con ella relacionadas (Montaner y Simón, 1897), by Julio Broutá (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forschungen aus dem patentrecht. (J. Bensheimer, 1888), by Josef Kohler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Knight's American mechanical dictionary: being a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes, and engineering; history of inventions; general technological vocabulary; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts. (J.B. Ford and Company, 1874), by Edward H. Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Science in the industrial world (Goodhue Co., 1912), by Henry Smith Williams and Edward Huntington Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventor's manual, how to work a patent to make it pay; a guide to inventors, in perfecting their inventions, taking out their patents, and disposing of them (N. W. Henley & Co., 1901), by George M. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Die denkwürdigsten Erfindungen im neunzehnten Jahrundert. Schilderungen für die reifere Jugend. (O. Spamer, 1877), by Louis Thomas, Richard Roth, and L. Luckenbacher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of inventions ([s. n.], 1895), by Horace Pettit (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Science. (Roberts, 1885), by J. G. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toldot ha-hamtsaʾot ha-ḥadashot : ḳevutsat sipure miḳre ha-hamtsaʾot ha-ḥadashot...asher himtsiʾu...be-meshekḥ mispar meʾot shanim. (Bi-defus Y. Goldman, 1887), by Mosheh Yaʻaḳov Leṿin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventions, how to protect, sell and buy them : a practical and up-to-date guide for inventors and patentees (Spon & Chamberlain ;, 1911), by F. B. Wright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Administration of certain inventions and patents by Federal Trade Commission : hearings before the Committee on Patents, House of Representatives, sixty-fifth Congress, third session on H.R. 14944, an act authorizing the Federal Trade Commission to accept and administer for the benefit of the public and the encouragement of industry, inventions, patents, and patent rights, and for other purposes. January 27, 1919. (Govt. Print. Off., 1919), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanical and electrical inventions : comprising machinery, mechanisms, movements, indicating, recording and integrating instruments and apparatus for laboratory research and industrial applications (Bartlett & Company, 1900), by Ernest Kempton Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law and facts on patents and inventions. A practical and legal business guide for developing, patenting, perfecting, manufacturing and operating inventions. Compiled from a life of experience. What to do and what not to do ... (C.J. Johnson, 1887), by Harvey L. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Knight's American mechanical dictionary : being a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes, and engineering. (Hard and Houghton, 1875), by Edward Henry Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of inventors; the adventures of inventors and engineers. True incidents and personal experiences (Doubleday, Page & co., 1911), by Russell Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs. (J. A. Ruth & co., 1883), by Franc B. Wilkie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The triumphs of invention and discovery, &c., &c. (T. Nelson, 1861), by J. Hamilton Fyfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventos e vários planos de melhoramento para este reino: escriptos nas prisões da junqueira. (Imprensa da Universidade, 1821), by Bento de Moura Portugal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colored inventor : a record of fifty years ([New York] : Crisis Pub. Co., [1913], 1913), by Henry E. Baker, Kelly Miller, and May Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du laboratoire à l'usine ... (A. Colin, 1913), by Louis Houllevigue (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Patenting and promoting inventions (R.M. McBride & co., 1918), by Moïs Herban Avram (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century. (G. Routledge, 1898), by Robert Routledge (page images at HathiTrust)
• How it is made : describing in simple language how various machines and many articles in common use are manufactured from the raw materials (Thomas Nelson, 1927), by Archibald Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Marvels of modern mechanics; the mastery of land, sea and air (E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1932), by Harold Tom Wilkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Industry and inventions (The Freeman's journal, 1933), by Harry Dean Morton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Man, the miracle maker. (Garden City Pub. Co., 1928), by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventer's manual, how to work a patent to make it pay : a guide for inventors, in perfecting their inventions, taking out their patents, and disposing of them, and cautions as to pitfalls for the unwary. (The Norman W. Henley publishing company, 1924), by George M. Hopkins and Albert A. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Invent and grow rich. (Wetzel Pub. Co., 1949), by Jay Gould Hobson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le grandi scoperte e le loro applicazioni alla fisica, alla chimica, all'architettura, alla meccanica, alla medicina, all'economia domestica, alle arti, al commercio, ecc. Precedute da un sommario della storia del progresso umano. ... 1. traduzione italiana sull' 8. ed. tedesca, arricchita con note ed aggiunte per le scoperte italiane. Materie prime ricavate dall'interno e dalla superfice dell a terra e dall'acqua. (Unione Tipografico-Editrice, 1800), by F. Reuleaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Government assistance to invention and research: a legislative history. (Government Printing Office, 1960), by Trademarks United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Problems in mechanizing the search in examining patent applications. (Office of Research and Development, U. S. Patent Offie, 1959), by Simon M. Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The NBS/DOE energy-related invention evaluation program : synopsis of evaluation process. (Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, National Engineering Laboratory [Office of Energy Programs], Office of Energy-Related Inventions, 1978), by National Engineering Laboratory (U.S.). Office of Energy-Related Inventions and United States. National Bureau of Standards (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of wonderful inventions (H.G. Bohn, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Invention and discovery : curious facts and characteristic sketches. (Lippincott, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Science and progress in the industries (Washington, D. C., 1929), by John Joseph Carty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Motive and obligation; engineering, industrial research, research without utilitarian objective and the interdependence of the fields to which they pertain (National research council, 1925), by Frank B. Jewett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great inventions (Smithsonian Institution Series, inc.], 1932), by C. G. Abbot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• Materialien zum deutschen unterricht in handwerker-fortbildungsschulen (C. Chun, 1878), by A. Chun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik (G. Westermann, 1877), by Ernst Kapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exploring the arts and industries (International Textbook Company, 1940), by Walter Rollin Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Tecknik Zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Cultur aus neuen Gesichtspunkten ... (G. Westermann, 1877), by Ernst Kapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bird's eye view of invention (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1926), by A. Frederick Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik. (Kraus Reprint Corp., 1960), by Ludwig Darmstaedter, D. C. Schaefer, and R. Du Bois-Reymond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• The romance of modern invention, containing interesting descriptions in non-technical language of wireless telegraphy, liquid air, modern artillery, submarines, dirigible torpedoes, solar, motors, airships. (Seeley, 1914), by Archibald Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (Routledge, 1879), by Robert Routledge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement to the series of letters patent and specifications of letters patent for inventions recorded in the Great seal Patent office, and granted between the 1st March (14 Jac. I.) A. D. 1617, and the 1st October (16 Vict.) A. D. 1852; consisting for the most part of reprints of scarce pamphlets, descriptive of the early patented inventions comprised in that series. (Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, printers to the Queens's Most Excellent Majesty, 1858), by Great Britain. Patent Office, William Watson, Richard Mead, Alexandre Tolhausen, Samuel Sutton, Jonathan Hulls, John Allen, Thomas Savery, Edward Somerset Worcester, William Wheler, J. B. W., Dud Dudley, Nicholas Halse, Nicholas Page, Richard Wynne, John Rovenzon, Simon Sturtevant, and Bennet Woodcroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Giwterun patmutʻiwně : hin zhamanakēn minchʻew mer aten. ([s.n.], 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature's teachings Human invention anticipated by nature. (J.S. Virtue, 1993), by J. G. Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Undersökning öfver uppfinnareverksamhetens variationer inom olika industriklasser i Sverige, Tyskland, Frankrike, England, Österrike och Ungern utförd på uppdrag för K. Patentlagstiftningskommittén (Statsvetenskaplig tidskrifts expedition, 1910), by Sweden. Patentlagstiftningskommittén (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories of inventors; the adventures of inventors and engineers. True incidents and personal experiences (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915), by Russell Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• The argument of Mr. Edward N. Dickerson : with his notes and explanations. (J. S. Voorhies, 1856), by E. N. Dickerson and Samuel Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die denkwürdigsten Erfindungen im neunzehnten Jahrhundert : Schilderungen für die reifere Jugend (Leipzig : Verlag und Druck von Otto Spamer, 1889., 1889), by Th. Schwartze, Fr. Luckenbacher, and Louis Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origins of invention : a study of industry among primitive peoples (W. Scott Ltd., 1905), by Otis T. Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories of our great inventions (Bobbs-Merrill company ;, 1927), by Grace Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ludwig Darmstaedters Handbuch zur geschichte der naturwissenschaften und der technik. In chronologischer darstellung. 2., umgearb. und oberst z. d. C. Schaefer (Kraus Reprint Corp., 1960), by Ludwig Darmstaedter, R. Du Bois-Reymond, and D. C. Schaefer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The illustrated book of wonders, events and discoveries : with continuation: On ragged schools, or, Great results from small beginnings, and Theoverland route to India, furnished by the secretaries of the societies (Dean & Son, 1890), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tips to inventors : telling what inventions are needed, and how to perfect and develop new ideas in any lines (New York, New York The Practical Publishing Company, 1892), by Robert Grimshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Was muss die Jugend von den neuesten Erfindungen und Entdeckungen wissen? (Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1890), by Egon Lützeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farmer and mechanic and American cabinet. (New York, Boston., 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new industrialism. Part 1: The age of invention (Yale university press;, 1919), by Holland Thompson and Burton Jesse Hendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century: The True Mirror of a Phenomenal Era: A volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress, by James P. Boyd (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature, by J. G. Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Discoveries and Inventions: A lecture by Abraham Lincoln delivered in 1860, by Abraham Lincoln, illust. by Ray Frederick Coyle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester: To which is added a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, with a Commentary thereon., by Henry Dircks (Gutenberg ebook)
• Inventing for Boys, by A. Frederick Collins (Gutenberg ebook)
• American Inventions and Inventors, by William A. Mowry and Arthur May Mowry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians, by William K. David (Gutenberg ebook)
• Invention and Discovery: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches (Gutenberg ebook)
• How to Succeed as an Inventor: Showing the Wonderful Possibilities in the Field of Invention; the Dangers to Be Avoided; the Inventions Needed; How to Perfect and Develop New Ideas to the Money Making Stage, by Goodwin Brooke Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• Inventors & Inventions, by Henry Robinson, illust. by T. M. Fleming (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Boy's Book of New Inventions, by Harry E. Maule (Gutenberg ebook)
• Famous Days in the Century of Invention, by Gertrude L. Stone and M. Grace Fickett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Art of Inventing, by Edwin J. Prindle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Inventions of the Great War, by A. Russell Bond (Gutenberg ebook)
• Learn to Invent, First Steps for Beginners Young and Old: Practical Instuction, Valuable Suggestions to Learn to Invent, by Samuel Evans Clark (Gutenberg ebook)
• Great Facts: A Popular History and Description of the Most Remarkable Inventions During the Present Century, by Frederick C. Bakewell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Boys' Second Book of Inventions, by Ray Stannard Baker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Historic Inventions, by Rupert Sargent Holland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories of Useful Inventions, by S. E. Forman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Romance of Modern Invention: Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, Modern Artillery, Submarines, Dirigible Torpedoes, Solar Motors, Airships, &c. &c., by Archibald Williams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends, by Edward Everett Hale (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Romance of Industry and Invention, ed. by Robert Cochrane (Gutenberg ebook)
• Marvels of Scientific Invention: An Interesting Account in Non-Technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-Date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and Many Other Recent Discoveries of Science, by Thomas W. Corbin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Great Inventions and Discoveries, by Willis Duff Piercy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Inventions in the Century, by William Henry Doolittle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Romance of War Inventions: A Description of Warships, Guns, Tanks, Rifles, Bombs, and Other Instruments and Munitions of Warfare, How They Were Invented & How They Are Employed, by Thomas W. Corbin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast, by George Sutherland (Gutenberg ebook)
• O odkryciach i wynalazkach: Odczyt popularny wypowiedziany dnia 23 marca 1873 r. (in Polish), by Bolesław Prus (Gutenberg ebook)
• Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery, ed. by George Iles (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories of Great Inventors: Fulton, Whitney, Morse, Cooper, Edison, by Hattie E. Macomber (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers, by Russell Doubleday (Gutenberg ebook)

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