Philadelphia: Printed [by W. W. Woodward] for B. Davies, No. 68, Market Street and T. Stephens, No. 57, South Second Street, 1795. First American edition of selections from “Secrets Concernant les Arts et Metiers.” The English translation first published in London 1775 as “Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades.” the..... Read More about One Thousand Valuable Secrets into the elegant and Useful Arts Collected from the practice of the...

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1954. First edition. From Son of Thomas Alva Edison's Library. Copy from the library of Theodore M. Edison, youngest son of Thomas Alva. The important principles and general techniques oif processing data at high speeds particularly for business purposes is the content of this..... Read More about Analog Methods in Computation and simulation

Paris: Imprimerie de E. Duverger, 1835. First edition. Among the areas his collection covered are roads, canals, history of finance and financiers, history of commerce, engineering, agriculture, customs, schools, hospitals, laws, medicine, mines, prisons, science and government. Read More about Traite de matériaux manuscripts de divers genres d'histoire

Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Instiution, March 16, 1936. First edition. An important marker in the development of rocketry and space flight, the pamphlet sums up Goddard's pioneering work in rocketry over the previous two decades. On March 16, 1926 Goddard launched the world's first liquid propellant rocket, from a site near..... Read More about Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development

Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1853. 32d Congress, 2d Session, Senate Rep. Com. Doc. No. 427. 1853 REPORT ON LEVI L. HILL'S "ALLEGED DISCOVERY IN HELIOCHROME" An important document in American photographic history, discussing the patent for the invention of color photography. Levi L. Hill was a daguerreian photographer, working..... Read More about In Senate of the United States. March 3, 1853 ... The Committee on Patents and the Patent Office,...

Paris: Chez la Veuve Estienne & Fils, 1751. A New Edition. The plates primarily show machinery relating to the woolen industry: looms, spinning machines and the like. There is a section on agriculture and also on leather tanning. Read More about Le Spectacle de la Nature ou Entretiens sur les Particularités de l'Histoire Naturelle qui one...

London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1875. Offprint from the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. XLII, Session 1874-5, part iv. Bessemer Steel Rails Examined. Read More about The Manufacture of Steel…and On Bessemer Steel Rails by Josiah Timmis Smith. With an Abstract...

[N.p: n.p, 1914?]. Signed by the recipient of the first phone call. Signed on the title page: "Thomas A Watson/Aug. 14th 1930/Boothbay Harbor/Maine". Watson entered American legend in March 1876 as the recipient of the first ever message transmitted by telephone, spoken of course by Alexander Graham Bell: "Mr. Watson..... Read More about The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone (An address delivered before the Third Annual Convention...