Two contributions by William H. Smyth, who was an engineer and social (outsider-y?) visionary who broadly outlined an ideal society governed by scientists and somehow via a democratic means. Perhaps the only thing remembered about his proposal was the word he coined (in 1919) to refer to this new form of government, “Technocracy”.--(noted by Beverly H. Burris, Technocracy at Work, p. 27)

• Technocracy, National Industrial Management, Practical Suggestions for National Reconstruction. (1931/2) 9x6, 7pp. Signed presentation copy to Miss Belle Sherwin, who at the time was president of the League of Women Voters
  
  
• Technocracy, First and Second Series. Social Universals, 1921. 9X6”, 67pp.

Provenance: first title, League of Women Voters and then to the Library of Congress; second title, Carnegie Institution, and then Library of Congress. Both copies are similarly bound. They each have a 6mm “LC” perforated stamp at the bottom of the front cover, and the LC surplus stamp on the rear cover. Both are Good/VG.  $195/pair

“The technocratic movement has its origins with the progressive engineers of the early twentieth century and the writings of Edward Bellamy,[15] along with some of the later works of Thorstein Veblen such as Engineers And The Price System written in 1921. William H. Smyth, a Californian engineer, invented the word "technocracy" in 1919 to describe "the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers", and in the 1920s it was used to describe the works of Thorstein Veblen.”