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I would add Ushers History of Mechanical Inventions https://archive.org/details/historyofmechani00ushe https://archive.org/details/historyofmechani00ushe And something I want to read but haven't found a copy: Secret Book of Secrets by Ibn Khalaf Al-Muradi When I looked at the science of engineering and saw that it had disappeared after it's ancient heritage, that it's masters had perished, and that their memories are now forgotten, I worked my wits and thoughts in secrecy about philosophical shapes and figures, which could move the mind, with effort, from nothingness to being and from idleness to motion. And I arranged these shapes one by one in drawings and explained them. ~AD 1000