It is published in constantly revised editions to this day and is therefore the oldest German reference work still available today.

An English version was published by McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, in 1916 as "Mechanical engineers' handbook, based on the Hütte and prepared by a staff of specialists" edited by Lionel Simeon Marks.

This led to Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, a work, which spawn several translations on its own and is continued up to the present with its 100th anniversary 12th edition published in 2017.

Another work initially influenced by the 1936 Russian translation of the 1931 edition of Hütte is the so called Bronshtein and Semendyayev (BS) handbook of mathematics.

For some time, the series was called "Hütte – Taschenbücher der Technik" (Technical Pocket Books).