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• La locomotion à travers l'histoire et les moeurs (P. Ollendorff, 1900), by Octave Uzanne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les merveilles de la locomotion ... (Hachette et cie, 1888), by E. Deharme (page images at HathiTrust)

• Noa, junk, and vaka : boats and culture history (Texas A&M University, 1974), by Edwin B. Doran (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Reprint Series (Peabody Museum, 1941), by Steamship Historical Society of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• 100 [i.e. Hundert] Jahre Dampfschiffahrt 1807-1907; Schilderungen und Skizzen aus der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Dampfschiffes. (C. J. E. Volckmann, 1907), by Karl Radunz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire de la machine à vapeur (F. Alcan, 1888), by Robert Henry Thurston and Joseph Hirsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of steam navigation, by John Kennedy (Gutenberg ebook)

• The pioneer steamer Beaver, the first steamer on the Pacific Ocean a brief but concise history of this most interesting craft (Bailey, 1895), by A. H. Lynn-Browne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Submerged cultural resources site report. Charles H. Spencer's mining operation and paddle wheel steamboat : Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Submerged Cultural Resources Unit, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, Southwest Region, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1987), by Toni Carrell, W. L. Rusho, James E. Bradford, and Southwest Cultural Resources Center. Submerged Cultural Resources Unit (page images at HathiTrust)

• Submerged cultural resources site report. Charles H. Spencer's mining operation and paddle wheel steamboat : Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Submerged Cultural Resources Unit, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, Southwest Region, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1987), by Toni Carrell, W. L. Rusho, James E. Bradford, and Southwest Cultural Resources Center. Submerged Cultural Resources Unit (page images at HathiTrust)

• Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1991), by Mark L. Thompson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Fulfilment of three remarkable prophecies in the history of the great Empire State relating to the development of steamboat navigation and railroad transportation, 1808-1908 ([publisher not identified], 1909), by Henry Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chafe's sealing book : a history of the Newfoundland sealfishery from the earliest available records down to and including the voyage of 1923 (Trade Printers & Publishers, 1923), by Levi G. Chafe and H.M. Mosdell (page images at HathiTrust)

• James Rumsey, the inventor of the steamboat : a paper (West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society, 1900), by George M. Beltzhoover and West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on the steam boats of the United States of America (s.n., 1830), by James Renwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beginning of the mechanical transport era in America (Smithsonian Institution, 1929), by Carl Weaver Mitman and Smithsonian Institution (page images at HathiTrust)

• The pageant of the packets : a book of American steamboating (New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1929., 1929), by Garnett Laidlaw Eskew and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The pageant of the packets : a book of American steamboating (New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1929., 1929), by Garnett Laidlaw Eskew and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The history of yachting, 1600-1815 (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904), by Arthur Hamilton Clark and New York Yacht Club (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Essays on the history of aviation medicine (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1965), by A. A. Sergeev (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aerospace Medical Division : twenty-five years of excellence, 1961-1986 (History Office, Aerospace Medical Division, 1986), by Edward Alcott, Robert C. Williford, and United States. Aerospace Medical Division. History Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• 50 years of research on man in flight (U.S. Air Force, 1985), by Charles A. Dempsey and Air Force Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The prehistory of aviation (Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History, 1928., 1928), by Berthold Laufer and Field Museum of Natural History (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chelovi͡ek - ptit͡sa : kak chelovi͡ek nauchilsi͡a letatʹ na vozdushnyhk sharakh, dirizhibli͡akh i aėroplanakh : sostavleno po novi͡eĭshim frant͡suzskim i ni͡emet͡skim istochnikam (Tipo-lit. T-va I. N. Kushnerev, 1911), by N. A. Ulʹi͡anov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Quest for Performance: The Evolution of Modern Aircraft, by Laurence K. Loftin (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Vehicles of the air : a popular exposition of modern aeronautics with working drawings (The Reilly and Britton co., 1909), by Victor Lougheed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vehicles of the air : a popular exposition of modern aeronautics with working drawings (Reilly and Britton, 1910), by Victor Lougheed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classic biplanes. (Sports Car Press;, 1963), by Robert T. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The shape of the aeroplane (Roy Publishers, 1953), by James Hay Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ford story; a pictorial history of the Ford Tri-motor, 1927-1957. (R. R. Longo Co.,], 1958), by William T. Larkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doctor Langley's paradox: two letters suggesting the development of rockets. (Smithsonian Institution, 1960), by Russell J Parkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern aircraft : basic principles, operation, application, construction, repair, maintenance; a complete practical treatise outlining clearly the elements of aeronautical engineering ... (New York : Norman W. Henley Pub., 1928, 1927., 1928), by Victor Wilfred Pagé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the Aeroplane, by C. B. Galbreath (Gutenberg ebook)

• Flights that made history / by David C. Cooke. (Putnam, 1961), by David C. Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• The wind and beyond : a documentary journey into the history of aerodynamics in America (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Office, Office of External Relations, 2003-<2007>, 2003), by James R. Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)

• A history of aircraft cockpit instrumentation, 1903-1946 (Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1958., 1958), by Douglass R. Nicklas, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, and Wright Air Development Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• PC Pilot: The Complete Guide to Computer Aviation (1994), by Steve Smith (HTML at flightsimbooks.com)

• Gliding and soaring flight : a survey of man's endeavour to fly by natural methods (Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., 1923), by Joseph Bernard Weiss, W. H. Sayers, and C. G. Grey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• To war on tubing and canvas : a case study in the interrelationships between technology, training, doctrine, and organization (Air University Press, 1993), by Jonathan C. Noetzel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hadrian ([AMC Museum?], 2004), by United States Air Force (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hypersonic revolution : eight case studies in the history of hypersonic technology : a Special Staff Office study (Special Staff Office, Aeronautical Systems Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 1987), by Richard Hallion and United States. Air Force. Systems Command. Aeronautical Systems Division. Special Staff Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Spider Web: The Romance of a Flying-Boat War Flight, by T. D. Hallam (Gutenberg ebook)

• 75 years of inflight refueling, highlights, 1923-1998 (Air Force History and Museums Program :, 1998), by Richard K. Smith and Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fifty-seven years of development and validation of aeronautical technology, 1940-1997 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center ;, 1999), by Paul F Borchers, Jay W Fletcher, James A Franklin, and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Airmobility, 1961-1971 (Washington: Department of the Army, 1999), by John J. Tolson (PDF at US Army CMH)
• Marines and helicopters, 1946-1962 (Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Navy, Marine Corps, History and Museums Division, 1977), by Eugene W. Rawlins and William J. Sambito (page images at HathiTrust)
• Airmobility, 1961-1971 (Dept. of the Army; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1973), by John J. Tolson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rotary wing industry (Distributed by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Office of Technical Services, 1954), by Eugene K. Liberatore and Wright Air Development Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Haltung und der Sitz des Reiters; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Reitkunst, mit Benutzung von "Mussot Commentaires sur l'équitation" bearbeitet (B.F. Voigt, 1855), by Carl Heinrich Eduard Graefe and Pierre Mussot (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Académie d'équitation de Caen au XVIIIe et au XIXe siècles, documents inédits tirés des archives municipales de Caen. (E. Adeline, 1900), by Alfred Gallier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traité d'équitation (Librairie Militaire de L. Baudoin, 1893), by Antoine d' Aure and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)

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