Copies of these three books
Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them
http://journeytoforever.org/farm_lib....html#contents
Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14091...-h/14091-h.htm
The Book of Household Management By Mrs. Isabella Beeton.
http://www.victorianlondon.org/publi.../beeton-00.htm
This last one can be a bit tedious to read as most of the (in our context) useful information starts around Chapter 4
Even if you don't read them for the survival/preparation context, they're interesting just for the insights into what life was like in the 1800s and 1900s (pre-1940s)