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• Essai sur la Théorie des Eaux Courantes (in French; Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1877), by Joseph Boussinesq
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• Measurement of Blast-Induced Ground Vibrations and Seismograph Calibration (report of investigations #8506; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967), by Mark S. Stagg and Alvin J. Engler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by Manhattan Engineer District (Gutenberg text)

• Vector Polar Method for Shock Interactions With Area Disturbances (technical note DR 4; Berkeley: University of California, 1959), by Antoni K. Oppenheim and Paul A. Urtiew (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Decay of Plane Shock Waves (Ballistic Research Laboratories report #423, 1943), by S. Chandrasekhar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Effects of Federal Policies on Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Elastic Waves in Layered Media (Lamont Geological Observatory contribution #189; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1957), by W. Maurice Ewing, Wenceslas S. Jardetzky, and Frank Press (page images at HathiTrust)

• HARPA: A Versatile Three-Dimensional Hamiltonian Ray-Tracing Program for Acoustic Waves in the Atmosphere Above Irregular Terrain (Boulder, CO: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Research Laboratories, 1986), by R. Michael Jones, J. P. Riley, and T. M. Georges (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Theory of Plasma Waves (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1962), by Thomas Howard Stix (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nonlinear Theories for Thin Shells (Cambridge, MA: Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard University, 1961), by J. Lyell Sanders
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• Skew Plates and Structures (New York: Macmillan, 1963), by L. S. D. Morley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Properties of Composite Sections for Bridges and Buildings (ca. 1963), by Bethlehem Steel Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Candela, the Shell Builder (New York, Reinhold Pub. Corp., c1963), by Colin Faber, contrib. by O. N. Arup (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonlinear Theories for Thin Shells (Cambridge, MA: Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard University, 1961), by J. Lyell Sanders
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• Coatings for High-Temperature Structural Materials: Trends and Opportunities (1996), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Seismic Design and Evaluation Guidelines for the Department of Energy High-Level Waste Storage Tanks and Appurtenances (1995), by K. K. Bandyopadhyay, A. Cornell, C. Constantino, R. Kennedy, C. Miller, and A. S. Veletsos (PDF at osti.gov)

• Circular Concrete Tanks Without Prestressing (Chicago: Portland Cement Association, ca. 1943), by Portland Cement Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Septage Management (Cincinnati: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 1980), by Joseph W. Rezek and Ivan A. Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hanford Tanks: Environmental Impacts and Policy Choices (1996), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Bioprocessing Pipelines: Rheology and Analysis (2006), by James Freeman Steffe and Christopher R. Daubert (PDF at MSU)

• Advanced Design in Structural Steel (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960), by John E. Lothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ironworkers Fabrication Manual: Presenting Practical Illustrations, Methods and Procedures for the Fabrication of Structural Steel and Ornamental Metal Work (St. Louis: International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, c1957), by Joseph J. Kronstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Torsion Analysis of Rolled Steel Sections (New York: Bethlehem Steel Corp., 1963), by Conrad P. Heins and P. A. Seaburg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plank-And-Beam Framing for Residential Buildings (c2003), by American Wood Council (PDF at awc.org)

• CRSI Recommended Practice for Placing Reinforcing Bars (Chicago; Concrete Reinforcing Stell Institute, 1959), by Raymond C. Reese (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mechanical Springs (first edition; Cleveland: Penton Pub. Co., 1944), by A. M. Wahl (page images at HathiTrust)

• Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope (New York: R. L. Stillson Co., c1921), by John Kimberly Mumford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Elastic Waves in Layered Media (Lamont Geological Observatory contribution #189; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1957), by W. Maurice Ewing, Wenceslas S. Jardetzky, and Frank Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imaging the Earth's Interior, by Jon F. Claerbout (PostScript files at Stanford)

• Wave Propagation (New York: J. F. Rider, c1957), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Introduction to Electric Fields: A Vector Analysis Approach (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1954), by Walter E. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electric Waves: Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action With Finite Velocity Through Space (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1893), by Heinrich Hertz, trans. by D. E. Jones (page images at Cornell)
• Signalling Across Space Without Wires: Being a Description of the Work of Hertz and His Successors (fourth edition, ca. 1911), by Oliver Lodge (multiple formats at archive.org)

• L'Onde Électrique (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Microwave Processing of Materials (1994), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Introduction to Microwaves (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963), by Gershon J. Wheeler, ed. by Irving L. Kosow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microwave Ferrites and Ferrimagnetics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, c1962), by Benjamin Lax and Kenneth J. Button (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microwave Principles (Princeton, NJ et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1957), by Herbert J. Reich, John G. Skalnik, Philip F. Ordung, and Herbert L. Krauss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microwave Circuit Theory and Analysis (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1963), by Rabindra N. Ghose (page images at HathiTrust)

• R-F Transmission Lines (New York: J. F. Rider, c1959), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Wave Propagation (New York: J. F. Rider, c1957), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Sequential Decoding (research monograph #10; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1961), by John M. Wozencraft and Barney Reiffen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook of Electromagnetic Propagation in Conducting Media (second printing; Washington: Headquarters Naval Material Command, 1976), by Martin B. Kraichman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Space-Charge Waves, and Slow Electromagnetic Waves (New York et al.: Pergamon Press, 1958), by A. H. W. Beck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of Experiments and Inquiries Respecting Sound and Light (reprinted from Philosophical Transactions; London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1800), by Thomas Young (page images at NIH)

• Acoustic Design Charts (Philadelphia: The Blakiston Co., c1942), by Frank Massa
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• HARPA: A Versatile Three-Dimensional Hamiltonian Ray-Tracing Program for Acoustic Waves in the Atmosphere Above Irregular Terrain (Boulder, CO: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Research Laboratories, 1986), by R. Michael Jones, J. P. Riley, and T. M. Georges (page images at HathiTrust)

• Phonophotography in Folk Music: American Negro Songs in New Notation (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1928), by Milton Metfessel, contrib. by Carl E. Seashore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Scattering and Radiation From Circular Cylinders and Spheres: Tables of Amplitudes and Phase Angles (Washington: U.S. Navy Dept., Office of Research and Inventions, 1946), by Mathematical Tables Project (U.S.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Underwater Sound Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wave Mechanics of Crystalline Solids (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1961), by R. A. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

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