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• Standard Instrumentation Questions and Answers, for Production-Processes Control (2 volumes; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1962), by Stephen Michael Elonka and Alonzo Ritter Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial Instrumentation (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1950), by Donald P. Eckman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Calibrating Hubble Space Telescope: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, November 15-17, 1993, ed. by J. Chris Blades and Samantha J. Osmer (Postscript files at stsci.edu)

• Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III, ed. by Dennis R. Crabtree, R. J. Hanisch, and Jeannette V. Barnes (HTML in Canada)

• A Treatise on the Astrolabe, by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • HTML in Sweden
  • HTML at Michigan

• Hours With a Three-Inch Telescope (second edition; London: Longmans, Green, and co., 1887), by William Noble
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (author's second edition, in Latin; Nuremberg: J. C. Lochner, 1702), by Johann Zahn
  • page images in Spain
  • multiple formats at Google

• Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope (c1939), by Victor Appleton, illust. by James Gary (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A 65-Meter Telescope for Millimeter Wavelengths (1972), by John Wilson Findlay and Sebastian von Hoerner (PDF files at Harvard)

• Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Fumigation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris (PDF files at MIT Press)

• Manual on Solar Distillation of Saline Water (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Distributed by National Technical Information Service, 1970), by S. G. Talbert, J. A. Eibling, George O. G. Löf, Chung-Ming Wong, and Everett N. Sieder (page images at HathiTrust)

• Expanding the Vision of Sensor Materials (1995), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Expanding the Vision of Sensor Materials (1995), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Principles of Ionization Smoke Detection: Development of a New Sensor for Combustion-Generated Submicrometer Particulates (report of investigations 8242; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1977), by C. D. Litton and Martin Hertzberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Courts of the Morning (c1929), by John Buchan
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• Reconnaissance and Scouting: A Practical Course of Instruction, in Twenty Plain Lessons, for Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1891), by Robert Baden-Powell (multiple formats at archiev.org)
• Information in War: Its Acquisition and Transmission (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1895), by George Armand Furse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Service of Security and Information (11th edition; Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., c1903), by Arthur L. Wagner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings (2 volumes; Washington: Office of the Historian, Naval Reconaissance Office, 2003), ed. by R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Need to Know: The Role of Air Force Reconnaissance in War Planning, 1945-1953 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2004), by John Thomas Farquhar (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• The Air Patrol: A Story of the North-West Frontier (London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by Herbert Strang, illust. by Cyrus Cuneo (Gutenberg text)

• A Need to Know: The Role of Air Force Reconnaissance in War Planning, 1945-1953 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2004), by John Thomas Farquhar (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings (2 volumes; Washington: Office of the Historian, Naval Reconaissance Office, 2003), ed. by R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings (2 volumes; Washington: Office of the Historian, Naval Reconaissance Office, 2003), ed. by R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)

• Uninhabited Air Vehicles: Enabling Science for Military Systems (2000), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974 (unclassified, censored version, 1998), by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach (PDF files at fdlp.gov)

• Reconnaissance and Scouting: A Practical Course of Instruction, in Twenty Plain Lessons, for Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1891), by Robert Baden-Powell (multiple formats at archiev.org)
• Scouting on Two Continents (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1926), by Frederick Russell Burnham, ed. by Mary Nixon Everett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Simon Kenton, or, The Scout's Revenge: An Historical Novel (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852), by James Weir (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper
  • volume I: HTML at Virginia
  • volume II: HTML at Virginia
• The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• The Last Trail, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)

• Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa (London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, c1919), by Herbert Strang, illust. by Walter Paget (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Corona: America's First Satellite Program (1995), by United States Central Intelligence Agency, ed. by Kevin Conley Ruffner (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• Nuclear Radiation Detection (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by William J. Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• Film Badge Dosimetry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests (1989), by National Research Council Energy Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Film Badge Dosimetry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests (1989), by National Research Council Energy Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• U-Boats and T-Boats, 1914-1918 (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, U.S. General Services Administration, 1984), by United States National Archives and Records Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Records of the Socialist Labor Party of America: Guide to a Microfilm Edition (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1970), ed. by F. Gerald Ham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Journal of Documentary Reproduction (full serial archives)

• The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929 (CLIR publication #158; Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources and Library of Congress, 2013), by David Pierce (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• High-Frequency Magnetic Materials: Their Characteristics and Principal Applications (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, c1960), by W. J. Polydoroff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory and Application of Ferrites (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960), by Ronald F. Soohoo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Audio Control Handbook for Radio and Television Broadcasting (New York: Hastings House, c1956), by Robert S. Oringel (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Electronic Travel Aids: New Directions for Research, by National Research Council Committee on Vision (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Description of the Instruments and Process Used in the Photographic Self-Registration of the Magnetical and Meteorological Instruments, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (extracted from the introduction to the Greenwich Magnetical and Meteorological Observations, 1847; London: Printed by Palmer and Clayton, and sold by J. Murray, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Description of the Instruments and Process Used in the Photographic Self-Registration of the Magnetical and Meteorological Instruments, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (extracted from the introduction to the Greenwich Magnetical and Meteorological Observations, 1847; London: Printed by Palmer and Clayton, and sold by J. Murray, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Difference Meter for Measuring Interior Quality of Foods and Pigments in Biological Tissues (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1965), by G. S. Birth and K. H. Norris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

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