E-books that might be of interest to others

[Té Rowan]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66942 — "The Building in Japan" by T. Takagi (pub. 1913)
A photo series showing the building of a house, probably in Kobe.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66944 — "The Principle of Relativity" by Albert Einstein and Hermann Minkowski (pub. 1920 by UoCalcutta).
Not much a random bloke can say about it.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/flyingatlanticin00browrich — "Flying the Atlantic in sixteen hours"
How Alcock and Brown made it across the Atlantic Ocean in their Vickers Vimy.

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67056 — "The Japanese New Year’s Festival, Games and Pastimes" by Helen Gunsaulus (pub. 1923)

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67172 — "A Guide to Mythology" by Helen Archibald Clarke (pub. 1918)
Mythology from outside the Judeo-Christian sphere, nota bene.

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67314 — "Water Reptiles of the Past and Present" by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
Crocodiles, turtles, lizards and 'saurs. Nothing particularly cryptozoologic, it seems.

[Té Rowan]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67507 — "Cheating The Junk-Pile" by Ethel R. Peyser (pub. 1922)
Subtitled: "The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments".

[Té Rowan]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67752 — "On Building A Theatre" by Irving Pichel (pub. 1920)
Stuff on buikding and equipping a theatre.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67790 — "The Mirror Of The Graces" by an anonymous author (pub. 1831)
About women in the late Georgian era of the United Kingdom.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/nonsecretformula00grif — "Non-Secret Formulas" by Thomas M. Griffiths (pub. 1897)
Abour four thousand recipes for this and that, including a bunch of liqueurs you probably have never seen or heard about before.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68008 — "Venus Equilateral" by George O. Smith. (pub. 1949)
Science fiction, set on a communication relay station in space.

For those scratching their heads, the cover shows a three-valve/tube superhet tuner, part of an amplifier's output stage, and Venus Equilateral relay station's position in space.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

Long ago (I think John W. Campbell was still alive) some observant soul said something to the effect that "Science Fiction is full of good authors named Smith." George O. Smith was one of the authors he was talking about. And there are a lot of Smiths in SF!! Just to list a few:

George O. Smith -- best remembered for the Venus Equilateral stories. He also stole away John W. Campbell's first wife.
Edward Elmer Smith -- His Skylark stories invented Space Opera, and his Lensman books perfected it.
Evelyn E. Smith -- she also wrote romances and mysteries and devised crossword puzzles
Cordwainer Smith -- Strange and poetic SF
L. Neil Smith -- Libertarian SF
George Henry Smith -- there were at least three authors writing as George H. Smith, but G. Henry was the SF writer
Clark Ashton Smith -- One of the "Big Three" of Weird Tales; more fantasy than SF
Thorne Smith -- More fantasy than SF. He wrote the Topper books, among others

And there are probably more. I've read books by all of them except George H. Smith.

[Té Rowan]

https://worldradiohistory.com/Practical-Mechanics.htm — One of the "Practical" series of UK magazines. There is much here for the handyman.

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68130 — "A Handbook of Library Appliances" by James D. Brown. (Pub. 1892)
A library needs more than just bookshelves.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68137 — "The Cake and Biscuit Book" by Elizabeth Douglas. (Pub. 1903)
"But can't they eat cake instead?" They can now.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67959 — " On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp, or Gunjah (Cannabis Indica), Their Effects on the Animal System in Health, and Their Utility in the Treatment of Tetanus and Other Convulsive Diseases" by W.B. O'Shaugnessy.
Medicine differed a lot from now when this was published, circabout 1843.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53881 — "Foster's Complete Hoyle" by R.F. Foster (pub. 1914)
Rules of play for a large number of games.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43531 — "The Vegetable Garden" (pub. 1912)
Grow your own vegetables.

[Té Rowan]

https://gripla.arnastofnun.is/index.php/gripla/article/download/517/511 — Algorismus in GKS 1812 4to.
A transcription and translation into English of an early Norse math text.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/randomrhymesoddn00irwiiala — "Random Rhymes and Odd Numbers" by Wallace Irwin (pub. 1906)
There is some interesting verse in this book.