Print Books

Available in PRINT in the Reference Collection or General Collection of the Clarkson main library. Find them on the shelf according to their call number listed under the title.

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Reference Collection (these titles are in-library use only and may not be checked out)

• Milestones in Science and Technology: The Ready Reference Guide to Discoveries, Inventions, and Fact
  REF 509 M928m
• Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology
  REF 503.21 E56
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
  REF 503 M147e7
• World of Scientific Discovery: Scientific Milestones and the People Who Made Them Possible
  REF 500 W927
• Reader’s Guide to The History of Science
  REF 509 R286 2000
• When Technology Fails: Significant Technological Disasters, Accidents, and Failures of the Twentieth Century
  REF 363.1 W567
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  For Historic Context
• The Timetables of History
  REF 902.02 G888t3
• The Timetables of American History
  REF 973.312 T583

General Collection (these titles may be checked out from the library)

• A History of Technology & Invention: Progress Through the Ages
  609 D241h 
• A History of Mechanical Inventions
  608.7 U85h
• A Short History of Technology
  609 D438s
• Discovery and Invention of the 20th Century
  609 C922d4
• Thinkers and Doers
  609 D225t
• Engineering and Society: Challenges of Professional Practice
  303.48 J69e

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