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Where to Find Complete Libraries Online for FREE (and a New Website to Check Out)
Where to Find Complete Libraries Online for FREE (and a New Website to Check Out)
Editor’s Note: This is the final article of The Information Specialist Series. Anon 411 has written 9 information-studded articles on this website and he’s moving on to his own site, RestartCivilization.org. All of his future articles will be published at RestartCivilization.org. and I hope that you will all go over there and support his efforts to gather resources that could change everything if society as we know it was to collapse. Best of luck, Anon 411! ~ Daisy
The libraries presented in this article were first discussed in the comments of the Part 9 article and need to be presented in their own article.
Collections of Books and Articles out of Copyright
Survivor Library
The Survivor Library is a library of about 15,000 books in PDF files that are all out of copyright or are otherwise in the public domain. The author of this site, who is known as The Librarian, is a very friendly fellow and his blog articles are interesting. The site is organized into a hierarchy of folders and subfolders as categories. You can freely download as many or as few PDF books as you like.
“The library contains thousands of books on technologies that can be produced by most reasonably skilled craftsman using tools not as sophisticated as what can be found in many modern home workshops.”
A complete copy of the current collection is available to purchase on a flash drive or on multiple DVD disks. The price for these seem very reasonable to me. I purchased the flash drive last summer and it contained 14,656 files in 175 folders/categories and consumed 224GB. It’s not clear to me how I can go about finding books added since I purchased the flash drive so I can download the new addition.
Collections of Resources for Third World Groups
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After the End of the World: Restarting Civilization
As I revised my existing material and notes into the articles that this series became, my ideas advanced from a library that one person could accumulate into a bigger project. This final article will primarily discuss this bigger project: restarting civilization.
With this final article of this series I want to weave together the threads of the previous articles into a plan that, if fully executed, could prepare humankind to restore our technological civilization should a civilization-destroying disaster occur.
I’m going to cover the following points.
- Define the problem – disaster
- What has been accomplished to date
- Propose a solution
- Find the information and tools necessary to restore a destroyed civilization
- Save the information and tools necessary to restore a destroyed civilization
- Survive the disastrous event
- Use the saved technology to rebuild civilization
Define the Problem
Disasters can happen anytime, anywhere and many occur without warning. Unless you prepare ahead of time you run the risk of property loss, injury or death of yourself or a loved one. The immediate danger inherit in some disasters, such as weather, can be over in a matter of minutes or a few days. Other disasters can result in The End of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI) (also known as Doomsday). For those disasters that have the potential to cause the collapse of civilization a plan must be in place to restore civilization. Preserving the scientific, medical and technological knowledge is the mission of this series of articles.
Survive the TEOTWAWKI Event
Surviving a major disaster breaks down into basically four time periods depending on the scope of the disaster. Items 1 and 2 below apply to all disasters. Items 3 and 4 apply to a TEOTWAWKI (The End of The World As We Know It) disaster.
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The Information Preppers Need to Build Machines
The Information Preppers Need to Build Machines
The importance of knowing how to build simple machines in the event of a collapse cannot be overlooked. This applies to far more than just machine tools. How do you build a horse-drawn wagon, agricultural machinery, a steam engine, and tens of thousands of other machines?
History of Technology – Making Simple Machines from Scratch
“Even today, blueprints are considered inadequate to transmit full information, and when a firm buys new and elaborate machinery [or software] it sends some of its workers to acquire, directly from the manufacturers, the knowledge of how to operate it. Through the ages, the main channel for the diffusion of innovations has been the migration of people. The diffusion of technology has been mostly the product of migrations of human capital.” ~ Before the Industrial Revolution, European Society and Economy 1000-1700 by Carlo M. Cipolla
I believe that construction plans and drawings on machine tools and many other machines were never published because that was considered proprietary material at the time and were discarded when the machines became obsolete. However, there may be some plans for constructing old machine tools, and some old machines themselves, available in museums, library, university and private collections. Finding this would be difficult, time-consuming and expensive.
An alternative to finding plans would be finding the old machines themselves and reverse engineeringthem for the purpose of developing plans, specifications, and drawings to reproduce each machine. Just compiling a list of machines that need to be created would be a complicated task. What needs to be done is to identify today’s machines that would be crucial to restoring our present civilization and researching the history, i.e. predecessor machines back to the original version of each machine. Then developing a critical path for the development of each machine. Eventually, this will provide a list of the earliest, blacksmith made, machine tools.
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Gathering Existing Information for Use After TEOTWAWKI
Gathering Existing Information for Use After TEOTWAWKI
This article is about how to gather existing knowledge and information for use after TEOTWAWKI. Basically, search Wikipedia.org for the basic articles on the six categories listed below, download the PDF of each related page, and check the footnotes for industry standard reference books that can be purchased or found online. Textbooks, workbooks, and lab manuals will also be needed on each subject.
It is far beyond my resources (and probably that of most of us) to purchase hundreds, if not thousands, of such books, therefore, a non-profit entity should be created to buy and store these books, and much more, in such a way as to survive TEOTWAWKI (Doomsday).
I like Wikipedia.org, despite the fact that their history, political, and controversial pages are biased, but because their science, engineering, and other hard subjects pages are filled with facts that are free and easy to find.
How to save the information from Wikipedia
Saving the information is very easy.
On the left-hand menu under the section labeled “Print/Export”, then click on “Download as PDF”. This will take you to a download page where you will click on the blue “Download” button.
The PDF will be automatically put in your “Download” folder, which on my machine is under Favorites. From there you can move it to the folder you want.
This is easiest if you open two Windows Explorer windows – one on the Download folder and one on the folder you want the PDF in. Then, just drag the PDF file across to where you want it.
What information to store
At first, I wanted information on the U.S. military, bases, weapons, aircraft, and ships, everything I could find. Not because I need that information today but because someday I might need it and wish I had it.
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