| American technological sublime DE Nye The MIT Press, 1994 | 2760 | 1994 |
| Electrifying America: Social meanings of a new technology, 1880-1940 DE Nye The MIT Press, 1990 | 1677 | 1990 |
| Industrial revolutions DE Nye Nature 391 (6664), 242-243, 1998 | 1384* | 1998 |
| Technology matters: Questions to live with DE Nye MIT Press, 2006 | 711 | 2006 |
| Consuming power: a social history of American energies DE Nye MIT Press, 1998 | 646* | 1998 |
| America as second creation: Technology and narratives of new beginnings DE Nye MIT Press, 2003 | 394 | 2003 |
| Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the construction of American culture DE Nye Columbia University Press, 1997 | 307 | 1997 |
| The environmental humanities: A critical introduction RS Emmett, DE Nye MIT Press, 2017 | 300 | 2017 |
| When the lights went out: a history of blackouts in America DE Nye MIT Press, 2010 | 297 | 2010 |
| Image worlds: corporate identities at General Electric, 1890-1930 DE Nye MIT Press, 1985 | 228 | 1985 |
| America's assembly line DE Nye MIT Press, 2013 | 167 | 2013 |
| The invented self: an anti-biography, from documents of Thomas A. Edison DE Nye University Press of Southern Denmark, 1983 | 115* | 1983 |
| Forward to: The world beyond the windshield: roads and landscapes in the United States and Europe C Mauch, Zeller, Thomas, Foreword Ohio University Press, 2008 | 105 | 2008 |
| Technologies of landscape: From reaping to recycling DE Nye University of Massachusetts Press, 1999 | 93* | 1999 |
| Why technology matters DE Nye Historically Speaking 7 (6), 14-16, 2006 | 83 | 2006 |
| Shaping communication networks: Telegraph, telephone, computer DE Nye Social research, 1067-1091, 1997 | 79 | 1997 |
| Icons: Magnets of meaning A Betsky, S Flusty, C Pearlman, DE Nye, FW Simpson (No Title), 1997 | 79 | 1997 |
| The Great White Way D Nye Energy Humanities: An Anthology, 71-80, 2017 | 72 | 2017 |
| The emergence of the environmental humanities DE Nye, L Rugg, J Flemming, R Emmett Mistra, 2013 | 66 | 2013 |
| American illuminations: urban lighting, 1800-1920 DE Nye The MIT Press, 2018 | 58 | 2018 |
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