E-books that might be of interest to others

[Té Rowan]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53143 — Henley’s zarking big lab and industrial recipe compendium, anno 1914.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53143 — Henley’s zarking big lab and industrial recipe compendium, anno 1914.

I had that one in hardcover. Very useful book, especially if you're trying to do things in an old-fashioned way.

Another you might like is the autobiography of Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher.

[Té Rowan]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53318 — “Jacquard Weaving and Designing” by T.F. Bell.

Oh, well; back to the ole punch card, then…

[Té Rowan]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53373 — “A Manual of Historic Ornament” by Richard Glazier. (1899)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53363 — “Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorous, Cements, Pastes and Mucilages” by F. Davidowsky. (1905)

A bit more topical is…
http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/boh/index.htm — “The Book of Hallowe’en” by Ruth Edna Kelley. (1919)

[Té Rowan]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54221 — “Induction Coils: How to Make, Use and Repair Them” looks like something for those wanting some sparks, bangs and buzzes of their own. Just be real careful and don’t zap yourself.

[Té Rowan]

And a book about keeping these really big and noisy sparks away from your self and property:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54577 — “Lightning Conductors” by Richard Anderson (1880)

[Té Rowan]

Near forgot http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54585 — a book published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory about the Mariner spacecraft going to Venus.

[Té Rowan]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55375 — “Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain” by William Andrews, published in 1887, is about fairs held during long periods of frost. As good an excuse as any, I suppose.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/FluidMechanics — Why do we blokes sometime have trouble hitting the loo when standing upright? Some of the answer is here.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

Not my problem.

[Spica75]

*lol*

[Té Rowan]

Some books by Paul Belloni du Chaillu:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22727 — “The Land of the Long Night”. Winter travel in Lapland. Published in 1901.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56167 and
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56168 — “The Viking Age” (in two volumes). Published in 1889.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/programsforelect00wilk — “The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer” by Wilkes, Wheeler and Gill. (2nd ed.,1957) All you wanted to know about EDSAC programming but didn’t know who (or even where) to ask.

[Té Rowan]

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/military/bogart/BOGART_Programmers_Man_Jul57.pdf — Ha! The perfect proof that the NSA did bogart all the BOGART!

[Spica75]

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/military/bogart/BOGART_Programmers_Man_Jul57.pdf — Ha! The perfect proof that the NSA did bogart all the BOGART!

Heh... The commands look a bit like programming in the machinecode monitor mode of the C128.

And this was kinda funny:
"The computation speed of BOGART is comparable to that of
ATLAS and ABNER. Physically; however, BOGART is much
smaller than either of these computers. The main cabinet is 8 feet
long, 3 feet wide, and 5 feet high."