Victorian Science and Technology

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Agriculture and Gardening

• A Book of Fruits and Flowers, 1653
• About Orchids by Frederick Boyle
• Agriculture for Beginners by Charles Burkett
• The Amateur Garden by George Cable
• Amateur Gardencraft by Eben Rexford
• Apple Growing by M.C. Burritt
• The Botanical Magazine
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• Cabbages and Cauliflowers by James Gregory
• Cactus Culture for Amateurs by W. Watson
• Catalogue of Economic Plants (US Dept. of Agriculture) by William Saunders
• Chocolate or an Indian Drinke by Captain John Wadsworth, 1652
• Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
• Cocoa and Chocolate by Arthur Knapp
• Commerical Products of the Vegetable Kingdom by P.L. Simmons, 1854
• Culinary Herbs by M.G. Kains
• Cultivation of the Native Grape by George Husmann
• The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers from Seeds and Roots by Sutton and Sons, 1921
• Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn by W.H. Hudson
• A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive by Augustus Munn 1844
• The Dollar Hen by Milo Hastings
• Draining for Profit and Draining for Health by George Waring
• Dry Farming by John Widstoe
• Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson
• English Walnuts compiled by Walter Fox Allen
• Essays in Natural History and Agriculture by Thomas Garnett
• Every Step in Canning: the Cold-Pack Method by Grace Viall Gray, 1920
• The Fat of the Land by John Williams Streeter
• The Fern-Lover's Companion by George
• The Field and Garden Vegetables of America by Fearing Burr, Jr.
• The Fight for Conservation by Gifford Pinchot, 1910
• The First Book of Farming by Charles Goodrich
• Flowers of the Farm by Arthur Cooke
• Flowers and Flower Gardens by David Lester Richardson
• The Folk-Lore of Plants by T.F. Thiselton-Dyer, 1889
• Food and Health [Pinkham's Little Books]
• Food Guide for War Service at Home, 1918
• Food of the Gods: a Popular Account of Cocoa by Brandon Head, 1903
• Foods that Will Win the War and How to Cook Them by C. Houston Goudiss, 1918
• The Garden, You and I
• Gardening for the Million by Alfred Pink
• Gardening Indoors and Under Glass by F.F. Rockwell
• Growing Nuits int he North by Carl Weschke
• Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by A.D. Webster, 1897
• Hardy Perennials and Old-Fashioned Garden Flowers by John Wood
• The House Fly and How to Suppress It
• Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee by L.L Langstroth
• Lessons on Soil by E.J. Russell
• The London and Country Brewer
• Making a Rock Garden by H.S. Adams
• Manual of Gardening by L.H. Bailey, 1910
• Mushroom: How to Grow Them by William Falconer
• The Natural History of Chocolate, 1730
• Northern Nut Growers Association
• 10th annual meeting 1919
• 21st annual meeting
• 24th annual meeting
• 25th annual meeting
• The Prairie Farmer
• Jan. 5, 1884
• Jan. 12, 1884
• Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care fo Livestock and Poultry
• The Production of Vinegar from Honey by Gerard Bancks
• The School Book of Forestry by Charles Pack
• A Short History of English Agriculture by W.H.R. Curtler
• Stewartdship of the Soil by John Henry Worst
• Stock Feeder's Manual byu Charles Cameron
• A Study of American Beers and Ales by L.M. Tolan and J. Garield Riley
• Success with Small Fruits by E.P. Roe
• Talks on Manures by Joseph Harris
• Tobacco by E.R. Billings
• A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers by Solon Robinson, 1853
• Walnut Growing in Oregan edited by J.C. Cooper

Astronomy

• Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion
• Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Services
• Discovery of a World in the Moone by John Wilkins, 1638
• Earths in Our Solar System Which are Called Planets by Emanuel Swedenborg
• A Field Book of the Stars by William Tyler Olcott
• The Future of Astonomy by Edward Pickering, 1909
• Great Astronomers by R.S. Ball
• Half-Hours With the Telescope by Richard Proctor
• History of Astonomy by George Forbes
• Is Mars Habitable? by Alfred Russel Wallace
• Kepler by Walter Bryant, 1920
• Lecons de Cosmographie by A. Guilmin
• Lectures on Stellar Statistics by C.V.L. Charlier
• The Moon by Thomas Gwyun Elger, 1895
• The New Heavens by George Ellery Hale, 1922
• Other Worlds by Garrett Serviss
• The Practical Values of Space Exploration, 1960
• Recreations in Astronomy by Henry Warren
• Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
• Sidelights on Astronomy by Simon Newcomb, 1906
• The Story of Eclipses by George Chambers
• Time and Tide, a Romance of the Moon by Sir Robert Ball
• Ueber die Schrechlicher Wirkingen des Aufsturzes Eines Kometen auf die Erde by August Heinrich Christopher Gelpke, 1835
• The Uses of Astronomy by Edward Everett, 1856
• Watchers of the Sky by Alfred Noyes

Conservation, Ecology, Forestry, Wild Life, Hunting, and Environment

• Ohio Biological Survey, 1921
• The Nation's River [Potomac], 1968
• Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota
• Rai Bhadur K. Ranga Achariyar
• A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• Henry C. Adams
• The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns
• E.T. Allen
• Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest
• Charles Babcock
• Bird Day, How to Prepare for It
• Henry Bates
• The Naturalist on the River Amazon
• Neltje Blanchan
• Bird Neighbors
• Wild Flowers
• Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
• Thomas Bett
• The Naturalist in Nicaragua
• Jagadis Chunder Bose
• Response in the Living and Non-Living
• Mrs. Brightwen
• Wild Nature Won by Kindness
• John Burroughs
• Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers
• The Wit of a Duck
• C.J. Cornish
• The Naturalist on the Thames
• Corin Dame and Henry Brooks
• Handbook of the Trees of New England
• N.H. Egleston
• Arbor Day Leaves
• A. Hamilton Gibson
• Camp Life in the Woods and Tricks of Trapping
• Mary Huston Gregory
• Checking the Waste
• Bob Hines
• Ducks at a Distance
• Chalres Hodge
• What Is Darwinism?
• William Hornaday
• Extermination of the American Bison
• The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals
• Our Vanishing Wildlife, 1913
• W.D. Hudson
• Birds of Town and Village
• Allan Hume
• The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, volume 1, 1899
• Francis Kermode
• Catalogue of British Birds
• J.J. Levison
• Studies of Trees, 1914
• William Long
• Ways of Wood Folk, first series
• Ike Matthews
• Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-Catcher
• Olive Thorne Miller
• In Nesting Time
• John Muir (1838-1914)
• The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
• The Mountains of California
• Steep Trails: California-Utah-Nevada-Washington-Oregon-The Grand Canyon
• Stickeen
• The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
• Travels in Alaska
• Yosemite
• A.S. Packard
• Our Common Insects
• T. Gilbert Pearson
• The Bird Study Book
• John Ruskin
• Love's Meinie: Three Lecturs on Greek and English Birds
• Proserpina, studies of wayside flowers,
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Ernest Seton-Thompson (1860-1946)
• Animal Heroes
• The Biography of a Grizzly
• Johnny Bear and Other Stories
• Lobo, Rag, and Vixen
• Monarch the Big Bear of Tallac
• Rolf in the Woods
• Wild Animals I Have Known
• James Sheehan
• Your Plants
• Julia Sloane
• The Smiling Hilltop and Other California Sketches
• Cecil Smith
• Birds of Guernsey and the Neighboring Islands
• Dama Margaret Smith
• I Married a Ranger, 1850
• Robert Sterndale
• Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
• Excursions (1863)
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (essay)
• A Plea for Captain John Brown (essay)
• Walden
• Walking (essay)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
• Wild Apples (essay)
• Gilbert White
• The Natural History of Selborne
• Volume 1
• Volulme 2
• Lieutenant-Colonel William Wood
• Draft of a Plan for Beginning Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador
• Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador, 1911
• Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador, 1912
• Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliot Corres
• Citizen Bird
• Robert Yerkes
• The Dancing Mouse: a Study in Animal Behavior

Farm Animals and Pets

• Kindness to Animals
• Percy Billinghurst
• A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals
• Thomas Bingley
• Stories about the Instincts of Animals, 1851
• T. Gilbert
• The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses, 1856
• S.L. Goodale
• The Principles of Breeding
• Mrs. R. Lee
• Anecdotes of the Habits and Instincts of Animals
• Robert Leighton
• Dogs and All About Them
• William M'combie
• Cattle and Cattle-Breeders
• William Osmer
• A Dissertation on Horses
• Harvey Riley
• The Mule: a Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put, 1867
• Wildair
• Rational Horse-Shoeing

Fish and Fishing

• Amateur Fish Culture by Chalres Edward Walker
• The Complete Angler by Isaak Walton, from the first edition of 1653
• The Cruise of the Cachalot [whaling] by Frank Bullen
• Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine by Walter Rich
• Fishing with a Worm by Bliss Perry, 1916 (short)
• The Lobster Fishery of Maine by John Cobb, 1899
• New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late 19th Century
• The Salmon Fishery of Penobscot Bay and River 1895-1896
• Within the Deep by R. Cadwallader Smith

Biology, Botany, and Evolution

• Anonymous
• An Expository Outline of the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 1845
• The History of Insects
• Louis Agassiz
• Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
• E.H. Aitken
• Concerning Animals and Other Matters
• George B. Louis Arner
• Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population
• Louis Berman
• Glands Regulating Personality, 1922
• William Jennings Bryan [creationism]
• In His Image
• Douglas Houghton Campbell
• Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany
• George Carpenter
• The Life-Story of Insects, 1913
• W.A. Chapple
• The Fertility of the Unfit, 1903
• John Coulter
• North American Species of Cactus
• Irvin Cobb
• Cobb's Anatomy
• H.W. Conn
• The Story of Germ Life
• The Story of the Living Machine, 1899
• Henry Crampton
• The Doctrine of Evolution, 1916
• Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
• Coral Reefs
• The Descent of Man
• The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
• Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom
• Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals
• The Formation of Vegetable Mould
• The Foundations of the Origin of the Species, Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844
• Insectivorous Plants
• Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants
• On the Origin of Species (first edition)
• On the Origin of Species (second edition)
• The Origin of Species by Mean of Natural Selection (sixth edition)
• The Power of Movement in Plants
• South American Geology
• Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volcanic Islands
• Voyage of the Beagle
• About Darwin
• The Autobiography of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Darwin and Modern Science by A.C. Seward
• Darwin and After Darwin by George Romanes
• Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Muller, translated by W.S. Dallas
• The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Phliosophy, Religion, and Morality by Rudolf Schmid
• Life and Letters of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• More Letters of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin) (1731-1802)
• The Botanic Garden (poem) 1788
• part 1
• part 2
• Zoonomia or the Laws of Organic Life, Volume 1, 1796
• E. Dennert
• At the Deathbed of Darwinism
• Hugo De Vries
• Species and Varieties, their Origin and Mutation
• Jean Henri Fabre
• Bramble Bees and Others translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• The Life of the Fly translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• The Life of the Spider
• The Mason Bees translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• More Hunting Wasps translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• Nouveaux Souvenirs Entomologiques, volume 2 2
• Souvenirs Entomologiques (in French), volume 1
• The Wonders of Instinct
• About Fabre
• Fabre, Poet of Science by G. -V. Legros, translated by Bernard Miall
• John Fiske
• The Destiny of Man, viewed in the light of his origin, 1893
• Th. Graebner
• Evolution
• Ernst Haeckel
• Evolution in Modern Thought (by Haekel, thomson, weisman et al>)
• The Evolution of Man, a Popular Scientific Study
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• W. Grant Hague
• The Eugenic Marriage
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• Baron d'Holbach
• The System of Nature
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Robert Hooke
• Micrographia, 1664
• Alexander von Humboldt
• Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewachse
• Thomas H. Huxley
• Science and the Hebrew Tradition (book)
• Essay 1, the Method of Zadig
• Essay 2, the Rise and Progress of Palaeontology
• Essay 3, Lectures on Evolution
• Essay 4, Interpreters of Genesis and Interpreters of Nature
• Essay 5, Mr. Gladstone and Genesis
• Essay 6, the Lights of the Church and the Light of Science
• Essay 7, Hasisdra's Adventure
• Essay 8, the Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study
• American Addresses, 1877
• Autobiography and Selected Essays (book)
• The Circulation of the Blood
• Collected Essays, volume 5
• The Conditions of Existence Affecting the Perpetuation of Living Beings
• Coral and Coral Reefs
• A Critical Examination of "On the Origin of Species"
• Criticisms on "The Origin of Species"
• Critiques and Addresses
• The Darwinian Hypothesis
• Darwiniana, Volume 2
• Discourses: Biological and Geological Essays
• Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (book)
• Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays (book)
• Geologic Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life
• Lay, Sermons, and Reviews
• Lectures and Essays
• Life and Letters of Thomas H. Huxley by Leonard Huxley
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge
• On the Brain
• On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals (book)
• On Some Fossil Remains of Man
• On the Study of Zoology
• The Origin of Species
• The Origination of Living Beings
• The Past Condition of Organic Nature
• The Perpetuation of Living Beings
• The Present Condition of Organic Nature
• Science and Education
• Time and Life: Mr. Darwin's Origin of Species
• Thomas Henry Huxley by Leonard Huxley, 1920
• Thomas Henry Huxley by P. Chalmers Mitchell
• Yeast
• Prof. B.G. Jefferis
• The Science of Eugenics
• Charles Kingsley
• Yeast: a Problem
• Lamarck
• Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution by Allpheus Packard
• Albert Leffingwell
• An Ethical Problem: Sidelights uopn Scientific Experimetnation on Man and Animals
• Charles Lyell
• The Antiquity of Man
• W.D. Matthew
• Dinosaurs
• Joseph McCabe
• The Story of Evolution
• Charles McRae
• Fathers of Biology
• James McClymont
• Essays on Early Ornithology
• St. George Mivart
• On the Genesis of Species
• Jane Newell
• Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part 1, 1888
• Paul Popenoe
• Applied Eugenics
• Albert Reese
• Depelopment of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
• E.S. Russell
• Form and Function, a Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
• William Salisbury
• The Botanist's Companion, volume 2
• Brillat Savarin
• The Physiology of Taste
• G. Elliot Smith
• Evolution of the Dragon
• John Smith
• Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
• John Tyler
• The Whence and Whither of Man, 1896
• Alexander von Humboldt
• Equinoctial Regions of America
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Cosmos: a Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, volume 1
• Charles Vorhies and Walter Taylor
• Life History of the Kangaroo Bat
• Alfred Wallace
• Is Mars Habitable?
• Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection
• Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection
• The Malay Archipelago
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Alfred Russel Wallace, Letters and Reminiscences by James Marchant
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• James Weir, Jr.
• The Dawn of Reason
• Edmund Beecher Wilson
• Biology

General Science

• ABC's of Science by Charles Oliver (short)
• A Catechism of Familiar Things
• General Science by Bertha Clark
• History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John Draper
• Popular Science Monthly, Volume 86, Oct.-Dec. 1915
• Reflections on the Decline of Science in England by Charles Babbage
• A History of Science by Henry Smith Williams (first four of five volumes)
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• International Weekly Miscellany
• Aug. 5 1850
• Aug 26 1850
• Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects by the Earl of Caithness, 1879
• Marvels of Modern Science (1910) by Paul Severing
• McClure's Magazine April 1896
• Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
• Jan. 1873
• Feb. 1873
• April 1873
• May 1873
• June 1873
• July 1873
• Aug. 1873
• Sept. 1873
• Oct. 1873
• Dec. 1873
• Jan. 1875
• Feb. 1875
• March 1875
• April 1875
• June 1875
• January 1876
• Feb. 1876
• March 1876
• April 1876
• May 1876
• June 1876
• Oct. 1877
• July 1878
• August 1878
• October 1878
• Dec. 1880
• Jan. 1885
• July 1885
• Aug. 1885
• Oct. 1885
• Dec. 1885
• Outline of Science by J. Arthur Thomson, volume 1
• Recent Developments in European Thought by Humphrey Milford, 1920
• Science and Morals and Other Essays by Sir Bertram C.a. Windle
• Scientific American
• December 28, 1867
• January 1, 1870
• March 18, 1871
• February 24, 1877
• March 29, 1879
• December 18, 1880
• December 30, 1882
• Supplement 275 from 1881
• Supplement 286 from 1881
• Supplement 288 from 1881
• Supplement 299 from 1881
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• Supplement 324 from 1882
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• Supplement 717 from 1889
• Supplement 787 from 1891
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• Supplement 803 from 1891
• Supplement 810 from 1891
• Supplement 819 from 1891
• Supplement 821 from 1891
• Supplement 822 from 1891
• Supplement 829 from 1891
• Supplement 832 from 1891
• Supplement 841 from 1892
• Supplement 1157 from 1898
• Scientific Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley
• Scientific Papers in Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology (Harvard Classics Volume 38)
• Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children
• Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young
• The Western World by W.H.G. Kingston

Geology Geography

• Around the World on a Bicycle, volume 1, by Thomas Stevens
• An Assessment of the consequences and Preparation for a Catastrophic California Earth quake, 1980
• A Briefe Introduction to Geography by William Pemble, 1630
• The Birth-Time of the World by J. Joly
• Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earethquakes in the Philippines
• Commercial Geography by Jacques redway
• The Elements of Geology by W.H. Norton
• Highroads of Geography by Anonymous, 1916
• International Conference held at Wahsington for the purpose of fixing a prime meridian and a universal day, 1884
• Madam How and Lady Why or First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children by Charles Kingsley
• Minerologia Polyglotta [in German] by Chr. Keffenstein
• Pressure, Resistance, and Sability of Earth by J.C. Meem
• The San Francisco Calamity of Earthquake and Fire
• South American Geology by Charles Darwin
• The Student's Elements of Geology by Charles Lyell
• A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davidson
• Theory of the Earth by James Hutton,
• volume 1 of 4
• volume 2 of 4
• Town Geology by Charles Kingsley
• Voyage of the Paper Canoe: a geographical journey of 2500 miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico during the years 1874-75 by Nathaniel Bishop
• Where We Live, a Home Geography by Emilie V. Jacobs

Weather

• The Hurricane Guide by William Radcliff Birt
• Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms by T. Bassnett, 1854

Mathematics

• The Algebra of Logic by Louis Couturat (.pdf file)
• Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Dudeney
• Charles Fourier (in German) by A. Bebel
• Diophantine Analysis by Robert Carmichael (.pdf file)
• Elements of Euclid, first 6 books by John Casey (.pdf file)
• Essays on the Theory of Numbers by Richard Dedekind (.pdf file)
• A First Book in Algebra by Wallace Boyden (.pdf file)
• The Hindu-Arabic Numberals by David Smith and Louis Karpinski
• The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development by Levi Conant
• Philosophy and Fun of Algebra by Mary Everest Boole (.pdf file)
• The Theory of Numbers by Robert Carmichael (.pdf file)

Medicine, Therapy, Nutrition, and Health

• An Account of the Foxglove and Some of Its Medical uses by William Withering
• Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society, 1856
• Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George Gould and Walter Pyle
• Appendicitis by John Tilden
• Autobiography of a Quack by S. Weir Mitchell
• The Biology, Physiology, and Sociology fo Reproduction by Winfield Hall
• Birth Control by Halliday Sutherland
• Civics and Health by William Allen
• Clara A. Swain, MD, First MEdical Missionary of the Orient by Mrs. Robert Hoskins, 1912
• Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured by Charles Cluthe and Sons
• De Usu Ratiocinii Mechanici in Medicina by Hermannus Boerhaave, 1703
• Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915
• Diet and Health with a Key to Caoloires by Lulu Peters
• Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton Reeks
• A Disquisition of the Evils of Using Tobacco by Orin Flower, 1842
• A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of Tobacco by A. McAllister
• Doctor and Patiernt by S. Weir Mitchell
• Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia by Isaac Briggs
• An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Death by R.D. Mussey
• The Evolution of Modern Medicine by William Osler
• Field Hospital and Flying Column by Violetta Thurstan, 1915
• First Book in Physiogy and Medicine by J.H. Kellogg, 1887
• Food Remedies by Florence Daniel
• Gilbertus Angelicus: Medicine of the 13th Century by Henry Handerson, 1918
• A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson
• Health and Education by Rev. Charles Kingsley, 1874
• Health Work in Public Schools by Leonard and May Ayres
• The Healthy Life, July-Dec. 1813
• Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by W.T. Fernie
• History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business
• How to Live by Irving Fiske
• Hygienic Physiology by Joel Steele
• An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis by Archibald Makellar
• Lameness of the Horse by J.V. Lacroix, 1916
• Manhood Perfectly Restored
• A Manual of the Operations of Surgery by Joseph Bell
• Measles by W.C. Rucker, 1913
• Medical Essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Moral Principles and Medical Practice, the Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Charles Coppens
• No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert Wheldon
• Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale
• Observations of an Orderly by Ward Muir, 1917
• Old-Time Makers of Medicine by James Walsh
• Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by James Sands Elliott
• Papers on Health by Professor Kirk
• Personal Experience of a Physician by John Ellis
• Plain Facts for Old and Young [about sex] by J.H. Kellogg
• Practical Physiology by Albert Blaisdell
• Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
• Punctuation by Frederick Hamilton
• Remarks of the Subject of Lactation by Edward Morton
• Round the Red Lamp, Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Sex and Common Sense by Maude Royden
• Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway by James Bayard Clark
• Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise
• Surgical Experiences in South Africa 1899-1900 by George Henry Makins
• The Talking Deaf Man by John Conrade Amman
• Theory of Circulation by Respiration by Emma Willard, 1861
• The Third Great Plague, a Discussion of Syphillis by John H. Stokes
• Tractatus de Hermaphroditis or a Treatise of Hermaphrodites, 1718
• A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons by Frederick Accun, 1820
• The Vitamine Manual by Walter Eddy
• Valere Aude, Dare to be Healthy by Louis Dechmann
• Venereal Diseases in New Zealand, 1922
• The Veterinarian by Charles Korinek
• Voices for the Speechless by Abraham Firth
• Voyage dans l'Aures: notes d'un medecin envoye en mission chez les femmes arabes by Dorothee Chellier, 1895

Physics and Electricity

• Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas Willson
• The Einstein Theory of Reliativity by H.A. Lorentz
• Electricity for Boys by J.S. Zerbe
• Experimental Determination fo the Speed of Light by Albert Michelson
• Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday
• Experiments and Considerations Touching Colors by Robert Boyle, 1664
• Experiments with Alternate Currents by Nikola Tesla
• Faraday As A Discoverer, by John Tyndall
• Five of Maxwell's Papers by James Clerk Maxwell
• Fragments of Science by John Tyndall
• Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John by Sir Isaac Newton 1733
• On Laboratory Arts by Richard Thielfall
• The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincare, 1909
• Six Lectures on Light, 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
• The Skeptical Chymist by Robert Boyle, 1661
• The Story of Electricity by John Munro
• Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens, 1690

Technology

• Scientists, Engineers, Inventors, and Industrialists
• The Age of Invention: a Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest by Holland Thompson
• Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Francois Arago
• Captains of Industry by James Parton
• Edison: His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
• History of the American Clock Business for the Past 60 Years, 1860 by Chauncey Jones
• My Life and Work by Henry Ford
• Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles
• Letters of Samuel F.B. Morse
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Life of Thomas Telford: Civil Engineer by Samuel Smiles
• Masters of Space by Walter Kellogg Towers, 1917
• Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
• James Cutbush, an American Chemist 1788-1823 by Edgar Smith
• James Nasmyth: Engineer, an Autobiography edited by Samuel Smiles
• Noteworthy Families [Modern Science] by Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster
• Obed Hussey, who of all inventors made bread cheap, edited by Follett Greeno
• Priestley in America 1794-1804 by Edgar Smith
• The Railroad Builders by John Moody
• Rough and Tumble Engineering by James Maggard
• Stories of Great Inventors by Hattie Macomber
• Stories of Inventors by Russell Doubleday, 1904
• Flight
• Aeroplanes by J.S. Zerbe
• The Aeroplane Speaks by H. Barber
• Aeroplanes and Dirigibles in War by Frederick Talbot
• The Aeroplane Speaks by H. Barber
• Aviation in Peace and War by F.H. Sykes
• Die Brueder Wright [Wright Brothers, in German] by A. Hildebrandt, 1909
• with accents
• without accents
• British Airships: Past, Present, and Future by George Whale
• Dominion of the Air by Rev. J.M. Bacon
• Flying Machines: Construction and Operation by W.J. Jackman and Thomas H. Russell
• History of Aeronautics by E. Charles Vivian
• Mastery of the Air by William J. Claxton
• How to Make Things, Machinery, Chemistry, and Manufacturing
• Acetylene: The Principles of Its Generation and Use by F.H. Leeds
• An Account of the Extraordinary Medicinal Fluid Called Aether by M. Turner
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Paper 1173 A Concrete Water Tower
• Paper 1176 Reinforced Concrete Pier Construction
• Paper 1178 Address at Annual Convention, 1910
• An Analysis of the Lever Escapement by H.R. Playtner
• The Art of Perfumery by G.W. Septimus Piesse, 1857
• The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1, by Popular Mechanics
• The Builders, a story and Study of Masonry by Joseph Fort Newton
• Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne
• The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
• The Chemistry of hat Manufacturing by Watson Smith, 1888
• Concerete Construction, Methods and Cost by Halbert Gillette
• Creative Chemistry by Edwin Losson, 1919
• The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics by Franklin Beech
• The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics by Franklin Beech
• An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson
• Elements of Plumbing by Samuel Edward Dribble
• Experiments upon Magnesia Alba Quicklime and some Other alcaline Substances by Joseph Black, 1755
• Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Justus Liebig
• Forty Centuries of Ink: a Chronological Narrative Concerning Ink and its Backgrounds by David Carvalho
• French Polishing and Enamelling by Richard Bitmead
• Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W.H. Simmons
• Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Matreial by Lyster Dewey and Jason Merrill
• Homes and How to Make Them by E.C. Gardner
• Instructions on Modern American Bridge Building by G.B.N. Tower
• Iron Making in Olden Times y H.G. Nicholls
• Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles
• An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis by Henry Talbot
• Knots, Splices, and Rope Work by A. Hyatt Verrill
• The Jute Industry by T. Wordhouse and P. Kilgorn
• Manuel Complet des Fabricans de Cahpeau by MM. Cluz et al., 1830
• Men's Sewed Straw Hats
• The Mechanical Properties of Wood by Samuel Record
• Nitro-Explosives: a Practical Treatise by P. Gerald Sanford
• On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacture by Charles Babbage
• Opportunities in Engineering by Charles M. Horton
• Organic Syntheses edited by James Bryant Conant
• Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting by Harold Manly
• Practical Mechanics for Boys by J.S. Zerbe
• Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by C.F. Cross and E.J. Bevan
• The Romance of Rubber by John Martin (short)
• Secret Chambers and Hiding-Places by Alan Flea
• Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design by Edard Godfrey
• Steam, Its Generation and Use
• Steam, Steel, and Electricity by James Steele
• The Stoker's Catechism by W.J. Connor
• The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M.M. Pattison Muir
• The Story of a Piece of Coal by Edward Martin
• The Story of Porcelain by Sara Ware Bassett
• The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens by Henry Bore, 1890
• The Text-Book of Assaying by C. and J.J. Beringer
• Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson
• Theory of Silk Weaving by Arnold Wolfenberger
• Things to Make by Archibald Williams
• in pdf form, with illustrations
• plain text
• A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting by Eugene Hall
• Vegetable Dyes by Ethel Mairet
• Watch and Clock Escapements, 1904
• The Working of Steel by Fred Colvin and K.A. Juthe
• Nuclear
• Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by The Manhattan Engineer District
• Project Trinity 1945-46 by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer
• Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War by the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• Photography
• American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by Samuel D. Humphrey
• Illustrations:
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 8A
• 8B
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• TTL
• Bromide Printing and Enlarging
• History and Practice of the Art of Photography by Henry Snelling

 
• Railroads and Subways
• The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• New York Tunnel Extension
• Paper 1150
• Paper 1151 North River Division
• Paper 1152 East River
• Paper 1153
• Paper 1154 The Bergen Hill Tunnels
• Paper 1156 Terminal Station West
• Paper 1157 Site of the Terminal Station
• Paper 1158
• Paper 1159 East River Tunnels
• Paper 1168 Tests of Creosoted Timber
• Paper 1170 The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway by J.T. Campbell
• Paper 1172 Locomotive Performance on Grades of Various Lengths
• Paper 1177 Final Report of the Speical Committe on Rail Sections
• Danger Signal by John Hill and Jasper Brady
• Daring and Suffering, a History of the Great Railroad Adventure by Lieutenant William Pittenger
• Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland, and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow, 1920
• Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway by J. Randall
• The New York Subway and Its Construction, 1904
• Practical Rules for the Management of a Locomotive Engine by Charles Hutton Gregory
• The Railroad Builders by John Moody
• Report of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade, 1845
• Report of the Knaresborough Railway Committee
• The Story of the Cambrian, Biography of a Railway by C.P. Gasquoine
• The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad by W. F. Bailey
• The Traveling Engineers' Association
• Cars and Trucks
• Return-Loads Bureaus to Save Waste in Transportation
• Rural Motor Express
• Ships
• From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A.T. Mahan
• A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam by James McQueen, 1838
• The Loss of the SS Titanic by Lawrence Beesley
• Manual of Ship Subsidies by Edwin Bacon
• Ocean Steam Navigation and the ocean Post by Thomas Rainey
• The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Distasters by Logan Marshall
• Telegraph, Telephone, and Radio
• Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, volume 1
• Heroes of the Telegraph by J. Munro
• The History of the Telephone by Herbert Casson
• The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by A. Frederick Collins (html document, with illustrations)
• Letters of Samuel F.B. Morse
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Weather
• The Hurricane Guide
• Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms by T. Bassnett, 1854
• The Shepherd of Banbury's rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather by John Claridge