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The Big Hop: The First Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future

October 07, 2025 05:30 PM
In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in "the Big Hop": an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was forced to abandon the journey halfway, and two pairs never made it into the air. Only one team, after a death-defying sixteen-hour flight, made it to Ireland.

Uploaded October 2025.

Automotive Handbook

October 07, 2025 09:36 AM
In the newly revised Eleventh Edition of the Bosch Automotive Handbook, a team of accomplished automotive experts delivers a comprehensive and authoritative resource for automotive engineers, designers, technicians, and students alike.

Uploaded October 2025

How the world flows : microfluidics from raindrops to Covid tests

October 07, 2025 09:29 AM
How the World Flows shows that many processes essential to life on Earth are microfluidic marvels. It examines how our cells breathe, feed, and fight diseases through small capillaries. Through engaging and digestible stories, Folch takes a lens to this tiny science and demonstrates how big a role microfluidics play in life as we know it.

Uploaded October 2025

American National Standard for safe use of lasers

October 07, 2025 09:27 AM
The ANSI Z136.1 for Safe Use of Lasers is the newly updated parent document and cornerstone of the Z136 series of laser safety standards. The Z136.1 is the foundation of laser safety programs for industrial, military, medical, and educational applications nationwide.

Uploaded October 2025

The Saucerian: UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker

September 10, 2025 08:54 AM
The strange, but true biography of the colorful founder of Saucerian Books, a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century.

Uploaded September 2025

Formal Methods for Multi-Agent Feedback Control Systems

September 10, 2025 08:51 AM
An introduction to formal methods for feedback control of multi-agent systems with safety and performance guarantees.

Uploaded September 2025

EV Batteries, Chargers, and Subsystems

September 10, 2025 08:49 AM
EV Batteries, Chargers, and Subsystems is a comprehensive guide for engineers and professionals seeking to master the intricacies of EV technology, address performance challenges, and ensure safety compliance.

Uploaded September 2025

Electric Vehicle Technologies: Renewable Energy for the Road

September 10, 2025 08:44 AM
Electric Vehicle Technologies: Renewable energy for the road traces electric vehicle technology from its beginnings through the current state-of-the-art and onwards to future possibilities.

Uploaded September 2025

Artificial Intelligence and Alloy Design

September 09, 2025 06:03 PM
The development of novel materials can be greatly accelerated by Artificial Intelligence based on high-throughput automatic computation and data-mining of material databases. Artificial intelligence can be used to predict the properties of alloys, based simply upon their composition.

Clean Energy: Past to Future

July 07, 2025 02:55 PM
Clean energy provision and usage has a long history from an engineering perspective. This perspective can help understanding past and current developments at a time of increasing concern about climate change.

July 2025

David Pixton

Engineering and Technology Librarian
dspixton@byu.edu