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• A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat (Maryland Historical Society Fund Publication #5; Baltimore: Printed by J. Murphy, 1871), by John H. B. Latrobe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life of John Fitch, the Inventor of the Steam-Boat (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1857), by Thompson Westcott (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863 (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick (page images at Google; US access only)

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

• Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River (New York: Grafton Press, c1907), by David Lear Buckman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Naval Boilers: A Text-Book for the Instruction of Midshipmen at the U. S. Naval Academy (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1903), by Frederick Charles Bieg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval Boilers: A Text-Book for the Instruction of Midshipmen at the U. S. Naval Academy (second edition, revised; Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1906), by Frederick Charles Bieg (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Short History of Navigation (Annapolis: Weems System of Navigation, 1942), by William James Vivian Branch and E. Brook-Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sea and its Story, From Viking Ship to Submarine (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1910), ed. by Frank H. Shaw and Ernest H. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Italienischen Portolane des Mittelalters: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kartographie und Nautik (in German and Italian; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1909), by Konrad Kretschmer
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, Collected from the Original Journal Preserved by Arrian, and Illustrated by Authorities Ancient and Modern (with 3 additional articles by the contributors; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1797), by William Vincent, contrib. by Samuel Horsley, William Wales, and Mr. de La Rochette
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean (2 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807), by William Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Neptune (partial serial archives)

• Sea History (full serial archives)

• Maritime Neutrality to 1780: A History of the Main Principles Governing Neutrality and Belligerency to 1780 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Carl J. Kulsrud (page images at HathiTrust)

• Navigation on the Upper Potomac and its Tributaries (second edition, c2011), by Dan Guzy (PDF with commentary at whilbr.org)

• Navigation on the Upper Potomac and its Tributaries (second edition, c2011), by Dan Guzy (PDF with commentary at whilbr.org)

• Wisconsin Rapids Bridge History, by Theodore W. Brazeau (page images at mpl.org)

• Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Richard V. Francaviglia
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Short Line War, by Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster (Gutenberg text)

• The History of the First Locomotives in America (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by William H. Brown (HTML at catskillarchive.org)
• Pictorial History of the Locomotive (Chicago: Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., 1899), ed. by William Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown (1991), by Gordon Chappell (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, c1994), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• The Octopus (Golden Gate edition; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Octopus: A Story of California, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)

• The Passenger Train in the Motor Age: California's Rail and Bus Industries, 1910-1941 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Gregory Lee Thompson (PDF at Ohio State)

• An Engineer's Recollections (reprinted from Engineering News-Record; c1936), by John F. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Autonomía de los Ferrocarriles del Estado: Discurso Pronunciado por el Senador por Ñuble, Don Gonzalo Urrejola, Sesiones del 18, 19 y 22 de Enero de 1917 (in Spanish; Santiago de Chile: La Ilustración, 1917), by Gonzalo Urrejola (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Sächsischen Eisenbahnen in Historisch-Statistischer Darstellung (in German; Leipzig: T. Thomas, ca. 1902), by Albert Wiedemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green; et al., 1831), by Joseph Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)

• Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sapbush Run: An Informal History of the Black River and Utica Railroad (Boonville, NY: Black River Books, 1948), by Thomas C. O'Donnell, contrib. by Walter D. Edmonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conquering the Wilderness: The Building of the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad by William Seward Webb, 1891-92 (Norwood, MA: Privately printed, 1932), by Charles Howard Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Railroad and the City: A Technological and Urbanistic History of Cincinnati (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1977), by Carl W. Condit (PDF at Ohio State)

• Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, by Zachary Lockman (HTML at UC Press)

• The Railroad Builders, A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, by John Moody (Gutenberg text)
• An Engineer's Recollections (reprinted from Engineering News-Record; c1936), by John F. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Richard V. Francaviglia
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Central Wisconsin's Railroads: Past and Future (1981), by Ray Specht (page images at mpl.org)

• Lives of the Engineers: Metcalfe-Telford; History of Roads (based on the J. Murray popular edition of 1904; with additional recent illustrations and notes), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Maritime Enterprise, 1485-1558 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1913), by James A. Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust, may not be accessible outside the United States.

• A Short History of Transport in Japan from Ancient Times to the Present (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by John Andrew Black (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), ed. by Ben Bradley, Jay Young, and Colin MacMillan Coates (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Paths of Inland Commerce: A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway, by Archer Butler Hulbert (Gutenberg text)

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