Technology & Engineering
Time Telling Through the Ages
A history of timekeeping from the stone age through to American mass production, covering timepieces from the sundial and water clock throug…
Report to the President
Since being sworn in on February 6, 1986, the Commission has been able to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Challenger accident. …
Twentieth Century Inventions
This work from 1901 predicts what technological developments will manifest in the twentieth century. The author, a technical journalist, pre…
Lecture on Artificial Flight
Lecture on artificial flight given on request of the Academy of Natural Sciences on August 7, 1876 in San Francisco, California by William G…
Rural Improvement
The principles of civic art applied to rural conditions including village improvement and the betterment of the open country. Big issues are…
Pyrotechnics
Captain St. Hill Brock presents here, in Part I, a brief history of pyrotechnics from origins in the East through the present. Part II delv…
The Romance of Modern Locomotion
In the following pages we shall peep into the history of typical companies in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere; consider the …
San Francisco Before And After The Earthquake
As all but Martians know (and who knows, perhaps even they), the city of San Francisco, California, was destroyed by massive earthquake and …
James B. Eads
Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 p…
Recordings on MP3 players and other portable devices
This is a project which will allow us to compare recording quality of different mp3 players and portable recording devices. Each reader has …
The Magic Lantern and its Management
There is no optical instrument so well known or so highly held in popular estimation as the Magic Lantern. It is somewhat unfortunate that i…
The Inner Chapters
The Inner Chapters journal my own quest to improve in the craft of programming. Each chapter reflects on a specific practice or principle t…
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer
This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join hi…
London From The Sanitary And Medical Point Of View
This little book is an expansion of two addresses delivered in January, 1889. One deals with sanitary issues in London. The other deals with…
A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting
A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting by Eugene Edward Hall is a comprehensive guide for watchmakers and enthusiasts alike, detailing the …
Baltimore Hats
It is not impossible that some useful information may be conveyed by this book. Should these pages prove of such service, their cost in labo…
Silent Sentinels
Possibly the first book concerning the protective relays and schemes used in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric powe…
Information and Entropy
Instructors: Paul Penfield, Seth Lloyd
This course explores the ultimate limits to communication and computation, with an emphasis on the p…
MIT 2.71 Optics
Instructors: George Barbastathis, Colin Sheppard, Se Baek Oh
This course provides an introduction to optical science with elementary engine…
MITSP.784S07
According to the United States Agency for International Development, 20 million people in developing countries require wheelchairs, and the …