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• The Home Mechanic: A Manual for Industrial Schools and Amateurs (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1905), by John Wright
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Shop Management, by Frederick Winslow Taylor (Gutenberg text)

• New Trends in Architectural Education: Designing the Design Studio (1995), by Ashraf Salama (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down in inner web page section for chapter links))

• Shop Management, by Frederick Winslow Taylor (Gutenberg text)

• The Atkins Saw Book for the Farm Workshop and Woodlands (Indianapolis: E. C. Atkins and Co., c1931) (PDF at woodworkslibrary.com)
• Farm Shop Practice (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1939), by Mack M. Jones (PDF at woodworkslibrary.com)

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

• Plant Layout: Planning and Practice (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1951), by Randolph W. Mallick and Armand T. Gaudreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial Architecture: An Analysis of International Building Practice (New York: F. W. Dodge Corp., [1960]), by James F. Munce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plant Layout: Planning and Practice (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1951), by Randolph W. Mallick and Armand T. Gaudreau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Solid-Liquid Flow in Noncircular Pipes (Washington: U. S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1973), by Richard C. Wang and Joseph J. Seman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Materials Handling (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1953), by John R. Immer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bevel Angles for Three Dimensional Connections (c1948), by Frank L. Martindale (page images at HathiTrust)

• River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon (1996), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Review of the Draft Federal Long-Term Monitoring Plan for the Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam (1994), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Construction of Hoover Dam: Preliminary Investigations, Design of Dam, and Progress of Construction (Washington: GPO, 1933), by Ray L. Wilbur, Elwood Mead, and United States Department of the Interior
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Review of the Draft Federal Long-Term Monitoring Plan for the Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam (1994), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon (1996), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don't Want You to Know (second edition, 1993), ed. by Margaret Barber and Gráinne Ryder (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Damming Grand Canyon: The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by Diane E. Boyer and Robert H. Webb (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Kentucky Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction and Initial Operations of the Kentucky Project (TVA technical report #13; Washington: GPO, 1951), by Tennessee Valley Authority (page images at HathiTrust)

• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Nile Reservoir Dam at Assuân, and After (second edition; London: E. and F. N. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1903), by William Willcocks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Assuân Reservoir and Lake Moeris (London: E. and F. N. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1904), by William Willcocks
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fish Passage Technologies: Protection at Hydropower Facilities (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (PDF files at louisiana.gov)
• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Closely Spaced Piles as a Breakwater (Berkeley: University of California, Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, Wave Research Projects, 1961), by Robert L. Wiegel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Habitability of the Love Canal Area: An Analysis of the Technical Basis for the Decision on the Habitability of the Emergency Declaration Area (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Earth Pressures and Retaining Walls (New York: Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1957), by Whitney Clark Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rock Tunneling With Steel Supports; With An Introduction to Tunnel Geology (Youngstown, OH: Commercial Shearing and Stamping Co., 1946), by Robert V. Proctor, Thomas L. White, and Karl Terzaghi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geotechnical Site Investigations for Underground Projects, by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Clandestine Service History: The Berlin Tunnel Operation, 1952-1956 (written in 1967; redacted declassified version released 2017), by United States Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Operations (PDF at cia.gov)

• Pothole Blasting for Wildlife (Wisconsin Conservation Dept. Publication 352; 1965), by Harold A. Mathiak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Control of Explosives: Administration and Execution of the Laws Pertaining to the Control of Explosives: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session (10 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1976), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Geotechnical Site Investigations for Underground Projects, by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Sustainable Freight Transport (special issue of Sustainability; Basel et al.: MDPI, 2018), ed. by Lorant A. Tavasszy and Maja Piecyk (PDF with commentary at mdpi.com)
• Freight Transportation for Profit (New York: Cornell Maritime Press, 1946), by Henry B. Cooley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Solid-Liquid Flow in Noncircular Pipes (Washington: U. S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1973), by Richard C. Wang and Joseph J. Seman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Motor, Marine and Aircraft Red Book, 1920 (London: Technical Pub. Co., ca. 1920), ed. by W. C. Bersey and A. Dorey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Factory Girl (originally published 1814; with extensive added notes), by Sarah Savage, ed. by Duncan Faherty and Ed White (PDF with commentary at common-place.org)

• Emergency Relief After the Washington Place Fire, New York, March 25, 1911 (1912), by Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Katy's Christmas (volume 1 of The Doll's Club series; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1871), by Virginia W. Johnson (illustrated HTML at readseries.com)

• Pilot Plants, Models, and Scale-Up Methods in Chemical Engineering (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1957), by R. Edgeworth Johnstone and M. W. Thring (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elements of Production Planning and Control (New York: Macmillan, c1962), by Samuel Eilon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shop Management, by Frederick Winslow Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• The New Industrial Day (New York: The Century Co., 1913), by William Cox Redfield (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Machinery Repairman (US Navy training manual NAVEDTRA 12204-A; 1993), by Wayne T. Drew (PDF at woodworkslibrary.com)

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