Engineering Handbooks

An engineering handbook is a reference book containing factual information such as definitions, formulas, physical constants, chemical properties, materials properties, and so on. Most handbooks cover a specific technology or field of engineering.

Handbooks are updated by teams of experts from industry and academia. Some handbooks have been continuously updated for more than 100 years. For example, Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers (right) was first published in 1916.

Below are some other well-known engineering handbooks.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 105th ed. (2024-25)
For more than a century, the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics has been a trusted source of reliable scientific data. It contains thousands of physical and chemical data tables which are reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis.
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, 9th ed. (2019)
Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, 4th ed. (2015)

Engineering Handbook Databases

AccessEngineering
An engineering reference tool that provides seamless access to authoritative, regularly updated engineering reference information published by McGraw-Hill.
Knovel
Knovel is a searchable database of more than 6,000 engineering and applied science handbooks and other reference works.