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• Technology

• Literature and technology -- Great Britain
• Literature and technology -- Latin America
• Literature and technology -- United States

• Industry and literature
• Technology and literature

• Imperial Media: Colonial Networks and Information Technologies in the British Literary Imagination, 1857-1918 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Aaron Worth (PDF at Ohio State)
• Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), ed. by Sean Pryor and David Trotter (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• The End of Books, or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by J. Yellowlees Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Tamara Siroone Ketabgian (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Cyborgs in Latin America (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2010), by J. Andrew Brown (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

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

• Bulletin (New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) (partial serial archives)
• Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology (1995), by Committee on Criteria for Federal Support of Research and Development (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Fireside University: For Home Circle Study and Entertainment (Chicago: Union Publishing House, c1898), by John McGovern (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Useful Arts, Considered in Connexion with the Applications of Science (2 volumes; Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840), by Jacob Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Next Hundred Years: The Unfinished Business of Science (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, c1936), by C. C. Furnas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations (electronic edition of Wiley reference) (searchable HTML at wiley.com)

• Citation Indexing: Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities, by Eugene Garfield (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations (electronic edition of Wiley reference) (searchable HTML at wiley.com)

• Globalization of Technology: International Perspectives (1988), ed. by Janet H. Muroyama and H. Guyford Stever (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Concise Chemical and Technical Dictionary (second enlarged edition; New York: Chemical Pub. Co., 1962), ed. by H. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of the Useful Arts (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby and Co., 1855), by Thomas Antisell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hand-Book of the Useful Arts: Including Agriculture, Architecture, Domestic Economy, Engineering, Machinery, Manufactures, Mining, Photogenic and Telegraphic Art: Being an Exposition of Their Principles and Practice and a Compend of American and European Invention (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v3; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Thomas Antisell
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering and the Mechanical Arts (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1880), ed. by Park Benjamin
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Free: The Future of a Radical Price (read by the author in its entirety; 2009), by Chris Anderson (zipped audio files at Wired; 280 MB)

• A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for W. Owen, 1763-1764)
  • Volume I (A-C): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (D-K): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (L-Q): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (R-Z): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (R-Z): multiple formats at Google

• Changing the Cogs: Activists and the Politics of Technology (Canberra: Friends of the Earth, 1979), by Brian Martin (PDF with rotated pages and commentary in Australia)

• Makers (2009), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)

• Ghana: Changing Values, Changing Technologies (Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, II; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2000), ed. by Helen Lauer (PDF at crvp.org)

• The Scientific Revolution Revisited (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), by Mikuláš Teich (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Federal Scientific and Technical Information in an Electronic Age: Opportunities and Challenges (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• The Big Data Agenda: Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies (London: University of Westminster Press, 2018), by Annika Richterich
  • multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press
  • HTML at Project MUSE
• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• Invention and Technology (partial serial archives)
• Annals of the University of Oradea: Fascicle of Management and Technological Engineering (issues online 2005-) (partial serial archives)
• Memoirs of the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University (partial serial archives)
• Popular Science (partial serial archives)
• New Scientist (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards (full serial archives)
• RSA Journal (partial serial archives)
• Science and Invention, ed. by Hugo Gernsback (full serial archives)
• Scientific American (partial serial archives)
• The English Mechanic and World of Science (partial serial archives)
• Archives of Useful Knowledge, ed. by James Mease (full serial archives)
• The Electrical Experimenter, ed. by Hugo Gernsback (partial serial archives)
• Mechanics' Magazine (US magazine, 1833-1837) (partial serial archives)
• Popular Mechanics (partial serial archives)
• Scientific American Supplement (partial serial archives)
• Zeitschrift für Technische Physik (partial serial archives)
• Modern Electrics (partial serial archives)
• The Manufacturer and Builder (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Royal Society of Arts (partial serial archives)

• Ghana: Changing Values, Changing Technologies (Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, II; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2000), ed. by Helen Lauer (PDF at crvp.org)
• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, by R. Buckminster Fuller (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Technology, Trust, and Religion: Roles of Religions in Controversies on Ecology and the Modification of Life (c2009), ed. by Willem B. Drees (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.