The ''Lexikon der gesamten Technik'' is an illustrated

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architectural Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...

and

manufacturing Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a ...

technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, scie ...

, written by Otto Lueger (German

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

, 1843–1911) and first published in 1894.

Editions

* 1st Edition, 7 volumes, 1894–1899 * 2nd Edition, 8 volumes, 1904–1910 (with two

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in 1914 and 1920) * 3rd Edition, 6 volumes, 1926–1929 (with a separate index volume) * 4th Edition, 17 volumes, 1960–1972

External links

*http://www.zeno.org/Lueger-1904, 10 volumes, digitized by Zeno.org and announced as public domain ("Lizenz: Gemeinfrei") German encyclopedias German-language encyclopedias Encyclopedias of science 1894 non-fiction books Publications established in 1894 1894 in science 19th-century encyclopedias {{encyclopedia-stub