Engineering & Technology

The engineers’ classics — Brunel and the Stephensons, the Wright brothers in their own words, Babbage on machinery, Smiles’s lives of the great builders, and the working manuals of steam, flight, print and craft. Each book a clean, beautifully formatted EPUB, free to download.

• A Catechism of the Steam Engine C. E. John Bourne
• A Course in Wood Turning Archie Seldon Milton and Otto K. Wohlers
• A Handbook of Laboratory Glass-Blowing Bernard D. Bolas
• A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian and W. Lockwood Marsh
• A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine Robert Henry Thurston
• A Manual of Face Brick Construction American Face Brick Association
• A Short History of the Printing Press Robert Hoe
• A Treatise on Dry Rot in Timber Thomas Allen Britton
• Acetylene: The Principles of Its Generation and Use F. H. Leeds and W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
• Aerial Navigation Albert Francis Zahm
• Agricultural Implements and Machines John T. Schlebecker
• Aircraft and Submarines Willis J. Abbot
• Aircraft: Its Development in War and Peace Evan John David
• Airplane Photography Herbert Eugene Ives
• American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype S. D. Humphrey
• American Inventions and Inventors William A. Mowry and Arthur May Mowry
• An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House Robert Stevenson
• An Analysis of the Lever Escapement H. R. Playtner
• An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design David Allan Low
• Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms H. Ling Roth
• Animal Proteins Hugh Garner Bennett
• Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization Matthew Luckiesh
• Autobiography of Sir John Rennie Sir John Rennie
• Automobile Biographies Lyman Horace Weeks
• Aviation Engines Victor Wilfred Pagé
• Aviation in Peace and War Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes
• British Airships, Past, Present, and Future George Whale
• Carriages & Coaches: Their History & Their Evolution Ralph Straus
• Chats on Old Clocks Arthur Hayden
• Computers — The Machines We Think With D. S. Halacy
• Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette and Charles Shattuck Hill
• Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay Clough Williams-Ellis
• Development of the Phonograph at the Volta Laboratory Leslie J. Newville
• Edison: His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
• Electric Transmission of Water Power Alton D. Adams
• Elements of Plumbing Samuel Edward Dibble
• English and American Tool Builders Joseph Wickham Roe
• Experimental Mechanics Robert S. Ball
• Farm Mechanics Herbert A. Shearer
• Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
• Forge Work William L. Ilgen
• Gas and Oil Engines, Simply Explained Walter C. Runciman
• Gas and Petroleum Engines H. de Graffigny
• Genius Rewarded: The Story of the Sewing Machine John Scott
• Great Inventions and Discoveries Willis Duff Piercy
• Gunpowder and Ammunition: Their Origin and Progress H. W. L. Hime
• Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro
• Highways and Highway Transportation George R. Chatburn
• History of Electric Light Henry Schroeder
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Internet Ed Krol
• How It Flies Richard Ferris
• How to Install Electric Bells, Annunciators, and Alarms Norman H. Schneider
• How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Thomas M. St. John
• Induction Coils: How to Make, Use, and Repair Them H. S. Norrie
• Inventions in the Century William H. Doolittle
• Inventions of the Great War A. Russell Bond
• Inventors Philip Gengembre Hubert
• Inventors at Work George Iles
• Jacquard Weaving and Designing T. F. Bell
• James B. Eads Louis How
• James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography James Nasmyth
• John Deere’s Steel Plow Edward C. Kendall
• Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson
• Learning to Fly: A Practical Manual for Beginners Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper
• Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper
• Lighthouses and Lightships W. H. Davenport Adams
• Lightning Conductors F.C.S. Richard Anderson
• Lightships and Lighthouses Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
• Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery Unknown
• Lives of Boulton and Watt Samuel Smiles
• Lives of the Engineers Samuel Smiles
• Marvels of Scientific Invention Thomas W. Corbin
• Masters of Space Walter Kellogg Towers
• Measuring Tools Unknown
• Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose
• Mechanics of the Household E. S. Keene
• Mechanics: The Science of Machinery A. Russell Bond
• Men of Invention and Industry Samuel Smiles
• Modern Ships of War Sir Edward J. Reed and Edward Simpson
• Motorcycle, Solo (Harley-Davidson Model WLA) United States. War Department
• My Life and Work Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther
• Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey
• Ocean Steamships J. D. Jerrold Kelley, French Ensor Chadwick, John H. Gould, Ridgely Hunt, William H. Rideing, and A. E. Seaton
• On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage
• On the Origin of Clockwork Derek J. de Solla Price
• Opportunities in Engineering Charles M. Horton
• Papierprüfung Wilhelm Herzberg
• Photographic Reproduction Processes P. C. Duchochois
• Principles and Practice of Fur Dressing and Fur Dyeing William E. Austin
• Printing Telegraphy: A New Era Begins Edward E. Kleinschmidt
• Railway Adventures and Anecdotes Unknown
• Railway Construction William Hemingway Mills
• Rambles on Railways Sir Cusack P. Roney
• Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson
• Seasoning of Wood J. B. Wagner
• Soap-Making Manual Edgar George Thomssen
• Steam Turbines Hubert E. Collins
• Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
• Stories of Inventors Russell Doubleday
• Story of the Automobile H. L. Barber
• Textiles William H. Dooley
• The 1893 Duryea Automobile Donald H. Berkebile
• The Aeroplane Speaks H. Barber
• The American Printer: A Manual of Typography Thomas MacKellar
• The American Railway Thomas Curtis Clarke
• The Art of Making Whiskey Anthony Boucherie
• The Art of Paper-Making Alexander Watt
• The Aswân Obelisk Reginald Engelbach
• The Automobile Owner’s Guide Frank B. Scholl
• The Automobile Storage Battery Otto A. Witte
• The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America Howard Irving Chapelle and Tappan Adney
• The Crystal Palace: Its Architectural History and Construction Jr. Charles Fowler and Peter Berlyn
• The Dominion of the Air John M. Bacon
• The Early History of the Airplane Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright
• The Evolution of the Steam Locomotive George Augustus Nokes
• The First Quarter-Century of Steam Locomotives in North America Smith Hempstone Oliver
• The Gunsmith’s Manual J. Parish Stelle and Wm. B. Harrison
• The Handbook of Soap Manufacture W. H. Simmons and H. A. Appleton
• The History of Coaches George Athelstane Thrupp
• The History of Steam Navigation John Kennedy
• The History of the Telephone Herbert Newton Casson
• The Invention of Lithography Alois Senefelder
• The Invention of the Sewing Machine Grace Rogers Cooper
• The Invention of the Track Circuit American Railway Association
• The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla Thomas Commerford Martin
• The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained E. A. Posselt
• The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth Thomas Woodhouse and Peter Kilgour
• The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles
• The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Isambard Brunel
• The Life of the Second Marquis of Worcester Henry Dircks
• The Life of Thomas Telford Samuel Smiles
• The Manufacture of Paper R. W. Sindall
• The Modern Bicycle and Its Accessories Alex Schwalbach and Julius Wilcox
• The Modern Clock Ward L. Goodrich
• The Modern Railroad Edward Hungerford
• The Panama Canal Frederic J. Haskin
• The Panama Canal: A History and Description J. Saxon Mills
• The Pencil of Nature William Henry Fox Talbot
• The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century Edward W. Byrn
• The Radio Amateur’s Hand Book A. Frederick Collins
• The Recent Revolution in Organ Building George Laing Miller
• The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest Edwin A. Pratt
• The Romance of Industry and Invention Unknown
• The Romance of Modern Mechanism Archibald Williams
• The Story of the Airship Hugh Allen
• The Story of the Atlantic Cable Sir Charles Bright
• The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph Henry M. Field
• The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens Henry Bore
• The Story of the Typewriter Herkimer County Historical Society
• The Submarine in War and Peace Simon Lake
• The Tank Corps Clough Williams-Ellis and Amabel Williams-Ellis
• The True History of the Ghost John Henry Pepper
• The Use of Ropes and Tackle Homer J. Dana and W. A. Pearl
• The Watchmakers’ Hand Book Claudius Saunier
• The Wright Brothers Fred C. Kelly
• The Wright Brothers’ Engines and Their Design Leonard S. Hobbs
• Time Telling through the Ages Harry Chase Brearley
• Turning and Boring Franklin Day Jones
• Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast George Sutherland
• Two Centuries of Shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock Scotts’ Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd.
• Watch and Clock Escapements Anonymous
• Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Peter C. Welsh