Technology -- History
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The Scientific Revolution Revisited (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), by Mikuláš Teich (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by Tore Frangsmyr, J. L. Heilbron, and Robin E. Rider (HTML at UC Press)
- French Inventions of the Eighteenth Century (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, c1952), by Shelby T. McCloy (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)
- My Inventions (as published in 1919 in The Electrical Experimenter), by Nikola Tesla (HTML at teslaplay.com)
- Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics (c2011), by Jennifer Gabrys (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
- Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Wilfried Feldenkirchen, trans. by Bernhard Steinebrunner (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- New Materials: Towards a History of Consistency (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), ed. by Amy E. Slaton (multiple formats with commentary at Lever Press)
- From the Ground Up: The History of Mining in Utah (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), ed. by Colleen Whitley (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Laura Vaughan (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
- Cenni Storici sui Lavori Geodetici e Topografici e Sulle Principali Produzioni Cartografiche Eseguite in Italia dalla Metà del Secolo XVIII ai Nostri Giorni (in Italian; Florence: Coi tipi dell' Istituto Geografico Militare, 1903), by Attilio Mori
- 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
- The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909: Compiled From Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo-Intaglio Reproductions of Important Maps, Plans, Views, and Documents in Public and Private Collections (6 volumes; New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928), by I. N. Phelps Stokes, contrib. by F. C. Wieder and Victor Hugo Paltsits
- From the Golden Gate to Mexico City: The U.S. Army Topographical Engineers in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (1993), by Adrian George Traas (PDF at US Army CMH)
- Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie; Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges (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)
- Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2014), ed. by Laura Holden Hollengreen, Celia Pearce, Rebecca Rouse, and Bobby Schweizer (PDF with commentary at CMU)
- The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature (Chicago: Ida B. Wells, 1893), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, and F. I. Barnett (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and Vignettes (2008), by Willis H. Ware (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
- A History of Mechanical Inventions (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1929), by Abbott Payson Usher (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown (1991), by Gordon Chappell (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)
- 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)
- Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Thomas Patteson
- The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Andrew J. Nelson (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
- 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)
- The Amos Gager Throop Collection: A Guide to the Papers in the Archives of the California Institute of Technology and the Chicago Historical Society (1990), ed. by Shelley Erwin and Carol H. Bugé, contrib. by Judith R. Goodstein (PDF at Caltech)
- Reflections of a Technocrat: Managing Defense, Air, and Space Programs During the Cold War (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2006), by John L. McLucas, contrib. by Kenneth J. Alnwick and Lawrence R. Benson
- A History of the Department of Defense Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Technology- 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, ed. by Janet H. Muroyama and H. Guyford Stever (page images at NAP)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Federal Scientific and Technical Information in an Electronic Age: Opportunities and Challenges (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- 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
- Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.