Engineering
Engineering Billington, David P. The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern. ([Wiley popular science]). 245 pp. New York: John Wiley & Sons, c1996.
Engineering Herrin, Dean. America Transformed: Engineering and Technology in the Nineteenth Century: Selections from the Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service. 194pp. Reston: ASCE, 2002. 
Engineering Jacobson, Charles David. Ties That Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800-1990. 282pp. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
Engineering Moehring, Eugene P. Public Works and the Patterns of Urban Real Estate Growth in Manhattan, 1835-1894. 452pp. New York: Arno, 1981.
Engineering Pierce, Morris A. "The Introduction of Direct Pressure Water Supply, Cogeneration, and District Heating in Urban and Institutional Communities, 1863-1882." DAI 54/04 (1993): 1506-A. (Doct. diss., University of Rochester, 1993)
Engineering Pinney, Benjamin William. "Projects, Management, and Protean Times: Engineering Enterprise in the United States, 1870-1960.” DAI 63/01 (2002): 273-A. (Doct. diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Engineering Reynolds, Terry S., editor. The Engineer in America: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture. 437pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Engineering: Biographical Greenwood, Richard E. "‘Scientific Engineering and Useful Improvements’: The Manufacturing Career of Zachariah Allen, 1822-1872." DAI 57/09 (1997): 3998-A. (Doct. diss., Brown University, 1996)
Engineering: Biographical Larkin, F. Daniel. John B. Jervis: An American Engineering Pioneer. (Iowa State University Series in the History of Technology and Science, 3). 192pp. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990.
Engineering: Biographical Meier, Michael T. "Caleb Goldsmith Forshey: Engineer of the Old Southwest, 1813-1881." DAI 44/01 (1983): 244-A. (Doct. diss., Memphis State University, 1982)
Engineering: Canada Ball, Norman R. Mind, Heart, and Vision: Professional Engineering in Canada, 1887 to 1987. 176pp. Ottawa, Canada: National Museum of Science and Technology; distributed by Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Engineering: Institutional Freese, Simon W. and Deborah Lightfoot Sizemore. A Century in the Works: Freese and Nichols Consulting Engineers, 1894-1994. 435pp. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994.
Engineering: Institutional Haugh, C. James. The Mechanical Feature: 100 Years of Engineering at Mississippi State University. 160pp. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
Engineering: Institutional Norrell, Robert J. A Promising Field: Engineering at Alabama, 1837-1987. 263pp. Tuscaloosa / London: University of Alabama Press, 1990.
Engineering: Institutional Rochester Engineering Society. Century of Engineering in Rochester, 1897-1997. 206pp. Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester Engineering Society, 1997.
Engineering: Pictorial works Greenhill, Ralph. Engineers Witness. 214pp. Boston: Godine, 1985. (Photographs of engineering and industrial works, with commentary)
Engineering (Chemical)
Engineering (chemical) Furter, William F., editor. A Century of Chemical Engineering. Papers from a symposium, Las Vegas, August 1980. 464pp. New York: Plenum, 1982. (International in scope)
Engineering (chemical) Peppas, Nicholas A., editor. One Hundred Years of Chemical Engineering: From Lewis M. Norton (M.I.T. 1888) to Present. (Chemists and Chemistry). 414pp. Dordrecht / Boston / London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.
Engineering (Civil and Military)
Engineering (civil and military) King, R. W., editor. Naval Engineering and American Sea Power. 487pp. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing, 1989.
Engineering (civil and military) Maynard, W. Barksdale. Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850. 322pp. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002. 
Engineering (civil and military) National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage (3rd: 2001: Houston, Tex.). International Engineering History and Heritage: Improving Bridges to ASCE’s 150th  Anniversary. Proceedings of the Third National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage, October 10-13, 2001, Houston, Texas. Edited by Jerry R. Rogers and Augustine J. Fredrich. Sponsored by American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on History and Heritage... 508pp. Reston, Va: American Society of Civil Engineering, 2001. (Includes US topics)
Engineering (civil and military) National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage (4th: 2002: Washington, D.C.). American Civil Engineering History: The Pioneering Years: Proceedings of the Fourth National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage, November 2-6, 2002,  Washington, D.C. Sponsored by American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on History and Heritage, ASCE National Capital Section. Edited by Bernard G. Dennis, Jr. and others. 548pp. Reston, Va: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002.
Engineering (civil and military) Owens, Jeffrey Alan. "Holding Back the Waters: Land Development and the Origins of Levees on the Mississippi, 1720-1845." DAI 60/04 (1999): 1296-A. (Doct. Diss., Louisiana State University, 1999)
Engineering (civil and military) Pabis, George S. "Restraining the Muddy Waters: Engineers and Mississippi River Flood Control, 1846-1881." DAI 57/11 (1997): 4901-A. (Doct. diss., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1996)
Engineering (civil and military) Pfatteicher, Sarah K. "Death by Design: Ethics, Responsibility, and Failure in the American Civil Engineering Community, 1852-1986." DAI 57/02 (1996): 836-A. (Doct. Diss., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1996)
Engineering (civil and military) Rilling, Donna J. Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850. (Early American Studies). 261pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Engineering (civil and military) Schneiders, Robert K. "Dams Across the Wide Missouri: Water Transportation, the Corps of Engineers, and Environmental Change along the Missouri Valley, 1803-1993." DAI 58/06 (1997): 2365-A. (Doct. diss., Iow State University, 1997)
Engineering (civil and military) Schubert, Frank N. Vanguard of Expansion: Army Engineers in the Trans-Mississippi West 1819-1879. 160pp. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1980.
Engineering (civil and military) Thienel, Phillip M. Mr. Lincolns Bridge Builders: The Right Hand of American Genius. 278pp. Shippensburg, Penn.: White Mane Books, 2000.
Engineering (civil and military) Woods, Mary N. From Craft to Profession: The Practice of Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America. 265pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Engineering (civil and military): Artifacts, instruments, substances Danko, George M. "The Evolution of the Simple Truss Bridge 1790-1850: From Empiricism to Scientific Construction." DAI 40/03 (1979): 1567-A. (Doct. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1979)
Engineering (civil and military): Artifacts, instruments, substances Dreicer, Gregory K. "The Long Span: Intercultural Exchange in Building Technology: Development and Industrialization of the Framed Beam in Western Europe and the United States, 1820-1870." DAI 54/07 (1994): 2712-A. (Doct. diss., Cornell University, 1993)
Engineering (civil and military): Artifacts, instruments, substances Great East River Bridge, 1883-1983. 180pp. New York: Brooklyn Museum, distributed by Abrams, 1983. (Brooklyn Bridge exhibition catalogue)
Engineering (civil and military):Artifacts, instruments, substances Haw, Richard. The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History. 307pp. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Engineering (civil and military):Artifacts, instruments, substances Jackson, Robert W. Rails Across the Mississippi: A History of the St. Louis Bridge. 265pp. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 
Engineering (civil and military): Artifacts, instruments, substances Jandl, H. Ward, editor. The Technology of Historic American Buildings: Studies of the Materials, Craft Processes, and the Mechanization of Building Construction. 224pp. Washington, D.C.: Published by the Foundation for Preservation Technology by the Association for Preservation Technology, 1983.
Engineering (civil and military): Artifacts, instruments, substances Kranakis, Eda. "Technological Styles in America and France in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Case of the Suspension Bridge." DAI 43/05 (1982): 1658-A. (Doct. diss., University of Minnesota, 1982)
Engineering (civil and military): Artifacts, instruments, substances Kranakis, Eda. Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America. (Inside technology). 453 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1997.
Engineering (civil and military): Artifacts, instruments, substances Landau, Sarah Bradford and Carl W. Condit. Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913. 478 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Engineering (civil and military): Artifacts, instruments, substances Latimer, Margaret, Brooke Hindle and Melvin Kranzberg, editors. Bridge to the Future: A Centennial Celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 424 (May 1984), 355pp. (Includes 30 papers)
Engineering (civil and military):Artifacts, instruments, substances Plowden, David. Bridges: The Spans of North America. Rev. ed. 339pp. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. (First published in 1974) 
Engineering (civil and military): Artifacts, instruments, substances Shapiro, Mary J. A Pictorial History of the Brooklyn Bridge. 122pp. New York: Dover, 1983.
Engineering (civil and military): Artifacts, instruments, substances Simpson, Pamela H. Cheap, Quick, & Easy: Imitative Architectural Materials, 1870-1930. 215pp. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.
Engineering (civil and military): Artifacts, instruments, substances Wermiel, Sara E. "Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Development of the Fireproof Building in the United States, 1790-1911." DAI 57/03 (1996): 1296-A. (Doct diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Engineering (civil and military): Artifacts, instruments, substances Wermiel, Sara E. The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth Century America. (Studies in Industry and Society). 301pp. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
Engineering (civil and military): Biographical Baker, Paul R. Richard Morris Hunt. 588pp. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1980. (Biography of the American architect)
Engineering (civil and military): Biographical Dickinson, William C., Dean A. Herrin, and Donald R. Kennon, editors. Montgomery C. Meigs and the Building of the Nation’s Capital. (Perspectives on the art and architectural history of the United States Capitol). 198pp. Athens, Ohio: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, 2001.
Engineering (civil and military): Biographical Griffin, Walt. "George W. Goethals and the Panama Canal." DAI 49/08 (1989): 2365-A. (Doct. diss., University of Cincinnati, 1988)
Engineering (civil and military): Biographical Hunter, Robert F. and Edwin L. Dooley, Jr. Claudius Crozet: French Engineer in America, 1790-1864. 224pp. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989.
Engineering (civil and military): Biographical Jackson, Robert Wendell. "James Eads, the St. Louis Bridge, and the Complexities of Capitalism." DAI 59/09 (1999): 3513-A. (Doct. diss., University of Texas, Austin, 1997)
Engineering (civil and military): Biographical Kundahl, George. Confederate Engineer: Training and Campaigning with John Morris Wampler. (Voices of the Civil War). 336pp. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
Engineering (civil and military): Biographical Liscombe, R. W. Altogether American: Robert Mills, Architect and Engineer, 1781-1855. 372pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Engineering (civil and military):Biographical Lupold, John S. and Thomas L. French. Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King. 335pp. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. (Nineteenth-century African-American engineer)
Engineering (civil and military):Biographical Mulholland, Catherine. William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles. 411pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Engineering (civil and military): Biographical Wojcik, Susan Brizzolara. "Thomas U. Walter and Iron in the United States Capitol: An Alliance of Architecture, Engineering, and Industry." DAI 60/02 (1999): 268-A. (Doct. diss., University of Delaware, 1998)
Engineering (civil and military): District of Columbia Cowdrey, Albert E. A City for the Nation: The Army Engineers and the Building of Washington, D. C., 1790-1967. 75pp. Washington, D. C.: Historical Division, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1979.
Engineering (civil and military): Florida Buker, George E. Sun, Sand and Water: A History of the Jacksonville District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1821-1975. 288pp. [Jacksonville?, Fla.]: G. E. Buker, [1980?].
Engineering (civil and military): Illinois Tweet, Roald. A History of the Rock Island District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1866-1983. 441pp. Rock Island, Ill.: U. S. Army Engineer District, 1984.
Engineering (civil and military): Institutional Lee, Antoinette J. Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect’s Office. 336pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 
Engineering (civil and military): Institutional Pearcy, Matthew T. "A History of the Mississippi River Commission, 1879-1928: From Levees-only to a Comprehensive Program of Flood Control for the Lower Mississippi Valley." DAI 57/07 (1997): 3213-A. (Doct. diss., University of North Texas, 1996)
Engineering (civil and military): Institutional Shallat, Todd A. "Structures in the Stream: A History of Water, Science, and the Civil Activities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1700-1861." DAI 47/10 (1987): 3857-A. (Doct. diss., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1986)
Engineering (civil and military): Institutional Shallat, Todd A. Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (American Studies Series). 276pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Engineering (civil and military): Institutional Smith, Mark Andrew, "The Corps of Engineers and National Defense in Antebellum America, 1815–1860.” DAI 66/02 (2005): 735-A. (Doct. diss., University of Alabama, 2004)
Engineering (civil and military):Institutional Thomas, Mary Margaret. "Science, Military Style: Fortifications, Science, and the United States Corps of Engineers, 1802-1861.” DAI 63/08 (2003): 2987-A. (Doct. diss., University  of Minnesota, 2002) 
Engineering (civil and military): Institutional Traas, Adrian George. From the Golden Gate to Mexico City: The U.S. Army Topographical Engineers in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. (CMH pub; 70-10). 353pp. Washington, D.C.: Office of History, Corps of Engineers and Center of Military History,U.S. Army: For sale by the Supt. of Docs.,U.S. G.P.O., 1993.
Engineering (civil and military): New York Goldman, Joanne Abel. Building New Yorks Sewers: Developing Mechanisms of Urban Management. (History of technology series). 228pp. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, c1997.
Engineering (civil and military): New York Revell, Keith D. Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898-1938. 327pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Engineering (civil and military): Pictorial works Carter, Edward C. II, John C. Van Horne and Charles E. Brownell, editors. Latrobes View of America, 1795-1820. 400pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, for the Maryland Historical Society, 1985.
Engineering (civil and military): Sources (archival) Carter, Edward C. II and others, editors. The Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1799-1820. (Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Series I, no. 3). 432pp. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1980.
Engineering (civil and military): Sources (archival) Stapleton, Darwin H., editor. The Engineering Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. (The Papers of Benjamin Latrobe, Series II). 256pp. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press for Maryland Historical Society, 1980.
Engineering (civil and military): Sources (archival) Van Horne, John C. and Lee W. Formwalt, editors. The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Latrobe. (The Papers of Benjamin Latrobe. Series IV, Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers, vol. 1-3). 3 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, for the Maryland Historical Society, 1984-1988. (Vol. 1, 1784-1804; vol. 2, 1805-1810; vol. 3, 1811-1820)
Engineering (civil and military):Washington Willingham, William F. Northwest Passages: A History of the Seattle District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1896-1920. Based in part on research by Robert E. Ficken. 156pp. [Seattle, WA]: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, 1992. (Available online at www.nws.usace.army.mil/.)
Engineering (Electrical)
Engineering (electrical) Century of Electricals: A Brief History of the Electrical Engineers, 1884-1984. 48pp. New York: Center for the History of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1984.
Engineering (electrical) Century of Honors: The First One-Hundred Years of Award Winners, Honorary Members, Past Presidents, and Fellows of the Institute. 445pp. New York: IEEE Press [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers], 1984.
Engineering (electrical) McMahon, A. Michal. The Making of a Profession: A Century of Electrical Engineering in America. 304pp. New York: IEEE Press, 1984.
Engineering (electrical) Rosenberg, Robert Arthur. "Academic Physics and the Origins of Electrical Engineering in America." DAI 51/05 (1990): 1746-A. (Doct. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1990)
Engineering (electrical): Biographical Kline, Ronald R. "Charles P. Steinmetz and the Development of Electrical Engineering Science." DAI 44/09 (1984): 2865-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1983)
Engineering (electrical): Biographical Kline, Ronald R. Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist. 401pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Engineering (electrical): Biographical Seitz, Frederick. The Cosmic Inventor: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866-1932). (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 89 part 6). 77pp. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999. 
Engineering (electrical): Institutional Geddes, L. A. A Century of Progress: The History of Electrical Engineering at Purdue (1888-1988). With the assistance of Kari Blaho and others. 307pp. West Lafayette, Ind.: School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1988.
Engineering (electrical): Institutional Harkness, Jon M., Thomas J. Higgins, Vincent C. Rideout and James J. Skiles, editors. Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, 1891-1991. 334pp. Madison: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, 1991.
Engineering (electrical): Institutional Wildes, Karl and Nilo Lindgren. A Century in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982. 480pp. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1985.
Engineering (Mechanical)
Engineering (mechanical): Institutional Foley, Brendan Patrick. "Fighting Engineers: The U.S. Navy and Mechanical Engineering, 1840–1905.” DAI 64/05 (2003). (Doct. diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003) 
Engineering (mechanical): Institutional Goldsmith, Werner. Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley: The First 125 Years. 153pp. Berkeley: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, 1997.
Engineering (mechanical): Institutional Sinclair, Bruce and James P. Hull. A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1880-1980. 256pp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1980.
Engineering Education
Engineering education Grayson, Lawrence P. The Making of an Engineer: An Illustrated History of Engineering Education in the United States and Canada. 290pp. New York / Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1993.
Engineering education Kynell, Teresa C. Writing in a Milieu of Utility: The Move to Technical Communication in American Engineering Programs, 1850-1950. (The Ablex communication, culture & information series). 102 pp. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp., c1996.
Engineering education Marcus, Alan E., editor. Engineering in a Land-Grant Context: The Past, Present, and Future of an Idea. 198pp. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2005.
Engineering education: Institutional Betros, Lance, editor. West Point: Two Centuries and Beyond. 623pp. Abilene: McWhiney Foundation, 2004.
Engineering education: Institutional Bezilla, Michael. Engineering Education at Penn State: A Century in the Land-Grant Tradition. 239pp. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981.
Engineering education: Institutional Crackel, Theodore J. West Point: A Bicentennial History. 370pp. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. 
Engineering education: Institutional Morrison, James L., Jr. The Best School in the World: West Point, the Pre-Civil War Years, 1833-1866. 225pp. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1986.
Engineering education: Institutional Pappas, George S. To the Point: The United States Military Academy, 1802-1902. 474pp. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1993.
Entomology
Entomology Geong, Hae-Gyung. "Exerting Control: Biology and Bureaucracy in the Development of American Entomology, 1870-1930." DAI 60/11 (2000): 4158-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999)
Entomology Horn, Tammy. Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation. 333pp. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
Entomology Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan. Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier. 294pp. New York: Basic Books, 2004. 
Entomology Palladino, Paolo. Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture: The Making of Scientific Careers in North America, 1885-1985. (Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine; v. 3). 201pp. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, c1996.
Entomology Sorensen, Willis Conner. "Brethren of the Net: American Entomology, 1840-1880." DAI 45/08 (1985): 2633-A. (Doct. diss., University of California- Davis, 1984)
Entomology Sorensen, Willis Conner. Brethren of the Net: American Entomology, 1840-1880. (History of American Science and Technology Series). 357pp. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995.
Entomology: Bibliography Mason, Philip. "American Bee Books: An Annotated Bibliography of Books on Bees and Beekeeping from 1492 to 1992." DAI 58/12 (1998): 4783-A. (Doct. diss., Cornell University, 1998)
Entomology: Biographical Barnes, Jeffrey K. Asa Fitch and the Emergence of American Entomology; With an Entomological Bibliography and a Catalog of Taxonomic Names and Type Specimens. (New York State Museum Bulletin, no. 461). 120pp. Albany, N.Y.: State Education Department, University of the State of New York, 1988.
Entomology: Biographical Henson, Pamela M. "Evolution and Taxonomy: J. H. Comstock’s Research School in Evolutionary Entomology at Cornell University, 1874-1930." DAI 51/05 (1990): 1745-A. (Doct. diss., University of Maryland-College Park, 1990)
Entomology: Massachusetts Spear, Robert J. The Great Gypsy Moth War: The History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890-1901. 308pp. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.
Entomology: Pictorial works Abbot, John. John Abbots Insects of Georgia. Reproduced from the original watercolors in the Alexander Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Wellington, N.Z.: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, 1983.

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