An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology

Why it’s on the list: A thousand-page reference on how things were actually made and moved — materials, power, transport, communications — the kind of book you read for the mechanisms rather than the narrative.

Where I heard about it

• Replies to @typesfast — recommended in the replies when he asked on X “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025.

Connections

• What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
• Technological Innovation · Open Source Knowledge — where this sits in the corpus.