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Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey

John Barnett and Roald Hoffman

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Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

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5 HN comments

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

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4.7 on Amazon

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507 Mechanical Movements

Henry T. Brown

4.5 on Amazon

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Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

Jeremy Narby

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The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

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Stone

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Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It

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Jungle: A Photicular Book

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Signals and Systems

Alan Oppenheim, Alan Willsky, et al.

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Radiant: Farm Animals Up Close and Personal (Farm Animal Photography Book)

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Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World

Joan Druett

4.5 on Amazon

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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Michio Kaku

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

John Rumble

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World

Josh Tickell and Terry Tamminen

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newman8ronMay 26, 2015

Also - 507 Mechanical movements if you haven't read it.. available online for free but I'd get a nice formatted one

droithommeonOct 15, 2013

The 507 mechanical movements book he references is fairly well known and has been discussed in various places before. There is a website dedicated to each movement from the book, with animations for many of the motions.

http://507movements.com/

hilbert42onMar 7, 2021

There are several editions of 507 Mechanical Movements available on the Internet Archive. I was so impressed with this little book that about a decade ago I downloaded the PDF and turned it into a properly bound book.

Here's the 1871 edition on the IA:

https://archive.org/details/Mechanical_Movements_507

kragenonAug 16, 2015

Since both of these are in the public domain, you can legally print your own copy, which is more convenient for some people.

Google Books has scanned the 507 Mechanical Movements book, although their search engine is terrible at finding things like that on their own site; one copy is available from http://www.pdnotebook.com/wp-content/themes/thesis_16/custom.... The other, longer book is harder to find via HTTP, although Libgen has a scan of the 2007 reprint. Timothy Schmidt scanned the original 1899 edition in 2008 and uploaded it to The Pirate Bay, which seems to not have it now: http://builders.reprap.org/2008/12/1800-mechanical-movements....

US patents are also a wonderful source of public-domain diagrams of machinery, and they are generally better explained (especially before about the 1980s, at which point their writing quality took a nosedive and they descended into nearly-unreadable jargon) but I'm not aware of an easily downloadable repository of scanned patents.

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