The 2.59 MB file has the text in ASCII and schematics in png format.
The Radio Amateur's handbook by Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick), 1869
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony Whole book is one html file. Has drawings of all the early telephone equipment: receivers, transmitters, induction and loading coils, electromechanical repeaters, magnetos, etc.. Tells how the stuff works and how it was developed and improved. No modern stuff.
Project Gutenberg has some James Clerk Maxwell, Faraday, and other icons.
Project Gutenberg is a source of classic literature on line, from Chaucer and Dumas, to Edger Rice Burroughs. Free to download or read a page at a time.
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