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• The Electric Arc (New York: D. van Nostrand Co.; London: "The Electrician", ca. 1902), by Hertha Ayrton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Experiments With Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (1892), by Nikola Tesla (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Lighting Pattern Book for Homes (online edition, 2007), by Russell P. Leslie and Kathryn M. Conway (PDF files with commentary at RPI)

• A Warning from the Edison Electric Light Co. (New York, ca. 1887), by Edison Electric Light Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Warning from the Edison Electric Light Co. (New York, ca. 1887), by Edison Electric Light Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lighting of a Great Museum (Hackensack, NJ: American Lighting Corp., c1960), by I. D. Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight: or, On the Border for Uncle Sam, by Victor Appleton
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org

• Lampen aus Vindonissa: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte von Vindonissa und des Antiken Beleuchtungswesens (in German; Zürich: In Kommission bei Beer & cie., et al., 1919), by Siegfried Loeschcke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Greek Lamps and Their Survivals (Athenian Agora series, v4; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1958), by Richard Hubbard Howland (PDF in Greece)

• Lamps from the Athenian Agora (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1963), by Judith Perlzweig, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Terracottas and Plastic Lamps of the Roman Period (Athenian Agora series, v6: Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1961), by Clairève Grandjouan (PDF in Greece)

• Terracottas and Plastic Lamps of the Roman Period (Athenian Agora series, v6: Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1961), by Clairève Grandjouan (PDF in Greece)

• Lamps of the Roman Period: First to Seventh Century After Christ (Athenian Agora series, v7: Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1961), by Judith Perlzweig (PDF in Greece)

• Report on Use of Acetylene Gas by the Canadian Government as an Illuminant for Aids to Navigation (Washington: GPO, 1907), by Albert Ross (multiple formats at Google)

• Antieke Terra-Cotta Lampen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden (in Dutch; Leiden: L. v. Nifterik Hzn., 1913), by Johanna Brants (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Terracotta Lamps (Corinth series v4 part 2; Cambridge, MA: American School of Classical Studies at Athens and Harvard University Press, 1930), by Oscar Broneer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Engineering and the Advancement of Human Welfare: 10 Outstanding Achievements, 1964-1989, by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Project Cyclops (c1992), by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)

• The Big Picture: HDTV and High-Resolution Systems (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Liquid Crystalline Polymers (1990), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Radium, and Other Radio-Active Substances: Polonium, Actinium, and Thorium (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co.; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1904), by William Joseph Hammer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Flat Panel Displays in Perspective (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Rise and Decay Times of Pulses From Photomultipliers Using Liquid Phosphors (AECU-996; Oak Ridge, TN: United States Atomic Energy Commission, Technical Information Service, 1951), by James S. Allen and Theodore C. Engelder (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Sun (c2003), by Jay M. Pasachoff (PDF files at Harvard)
• A New Sun: The Solar Results from Skylab (1979), by John A. Eddy, ed. by Rein Ise (illustrated HTML at NASA)

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

• Potential Applications of Concentrated Solar Energy: Proceedings of a Workshop (1991), by National Research Council Energy Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• When the Sun Went Out (Science Fiction Series #4; New York: Stellar Pub. Corp., c1929), by Leslie F. Stone, illust. by Frank R. Paul (Gutenberg text)

• The Secret of the Ninth Planet, by Donald A. Wollheim (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Oceanic, American Indian, and African Myths of Snaring the Sun (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #168; Honolulu: The Museum, 1940), by Katharine Luomala (page images at HathiTrust)

• How Sing Found the World is Round (Chicago: P. F. Volland, c1921), by Sydney Reid, illust. by Katharine Sturges
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Through the Sun in an Airship (London: C. Griffin and Co., ca. 1909), by John Mastin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sun Lore of All Ages (New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), by William Tyler Olcott (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Solar Influences on Global Change (1994), by National Research Council Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Boletín del Observatorio Meteorológico, by Sociedad Geográfica de La Paz (partial serial archives)

• Living Reviews in Solar Physics (2004-) (full serial archives)

• Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution, by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (full serial archives)

• The Cities of the Sun (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1901), by Geo. W. Warder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Four Sacred Seasons, by G. de Purucker (HTML at TUP)

• Sun Lore of All Ages (New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), by William Tyler Olcott (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Origin of All Religious Worship (with a description of the zodiac of Dandarah; New Orleans, 1872), by Dupuis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered (1906), by Norman Lockyer (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Field of Solar Physics: Review and Recommendations for Ground-Based Solar Research (1989), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Pioneer Odyssey (revised edition, 1977), by Richard O. Fimmel, William Swindell, and Eric Burgess (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Images of the Solar Upper Atmosphere From SUMER on SOHO (c2003), by U. Feldman, Ingolf E. Dammasch, Klaus Wilhelm, Philippe Lemaire, and Donald M. Hassler, ed. by B. Battrick (PDF files at Harvard)

• Corona and Coronet: Being a Narrative of the Amherst Eclipse Expedition to Japan, in Mr. James's Schooner-Yacht Coronet, to Observe the Sun's Total Obscuration, 9th August, 1896 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), by Mabel Loomis Todd (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Théorie Mathématique des Phénomènes Thermiques Produits par la Radiation Solaire (in French; Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1920), by Milutin Milankovic (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Compendium of Theoretical Atmospheric Tidal Structures (2 volumes; Hanscom AFB, MA: Astronomy Division, Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, 1982), by J. M. Forbes, D. F. Gillette, Maura E. Hagan, and E. DiCesare
  • Part I (Model Description and Explicit Structures due to Realistic Thermal and Gravitational Excitation): page images at HathiTrust
  • Part II (Thermospheric Extensions of the Classical Expansion Functions for Semidiurnal Tides): page images at HathiTrust

• Causes and Effects of Stratospheric Ozone Reduction: An Update (1982), by National Research Council Commission on Natural Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Global Greenhouse Regime: Who Pays? (c1993), ed. by Peter Hayes and Kirk R. Smith (HTML at UNU)
• Why Scientists Disagree on Global Warming (Arlington Heights, IL: Pub. for the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change by the Heartland Institute, c2015), by Craig D. Idso, R. M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer (PDF with commentary at heartland.org)
• Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power (2006), by Larry Lohmann, ed. by Niclas Hallstrom, Olle Nordberg, and Robert Osterbergh (PDF at The Corner House)
• An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security (2003; released 2004), by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall (PDF at dtic.mil)

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