Technology & Engineering
Insomnia Collection Vol. 006
Read by Verla Viera
Various
Drift off to dreamland with excerpts from this vintage collection of books about mechanical and engineering topics. You’ll be sure to snooze…
Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making
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Alan St. Hill Brock
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 Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century
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Edward Wright Byrn
The 1800s saw a meteoric rise in modern technology in many areas. The century set the stage for modern life with developments such as the el…
The Romance of Modern Locomotion
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Archibald Williams
In the following pages we shall peep into the history of typical companies in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere; consider the …
Rural Improvement
Read by Leon Harvey
Frank Albert Waugh
The principles of civic art applied to rural conditions including village improvement and the betterment of the open country. Big issues are…
The Romance of Modern Manufacture
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Charles R. Gibson
Those of us who have grown up with the results of Modern Manufacture around us are apt to miss the romance of the subject. Indeed, it is di…
Silent Sentinels: Protective Relays for A-C and D-C Systems
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Westinghouse Electric And Manufacturing Company
Possibly the first book concerning the protective relays and schemes used in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric powe…
James B. Eads
Read by Barry Eads
Louis How
Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 p…
The Magic Lantern and its Management
Read by James R. Hedrick
T. C. Hepworth
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…
Lecture on Artificial Flight
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William G. Krueger
Lecture on artificial flight given on request of the Academy of Natural Sciences on August 7, 1876 in San Francisco, California by William G…