The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
There are many projects of purely historical interest, such as chemical photography, phonographs, and devices for coal furnaces.
Another class of projects illustrate the caviler attitude toward environment and health in 1913. These projects involve items such as asbestos, gunpowder, acetylene, hydrogen, lead, mercury, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, cadmium, potassium sulfate, potassium cyanide, potassium ferrocyanide, copper sulfate, and hydrochloric acid. Many references to these have been highlighted in red.
Projects requiring extra skill and care that involve high voltage, melting metals, or other hazards, have the title highlighted.
Please view these as snapshots of culture and attitude, not as suggestions for contemporary activity.
Be careful and have fun, or simply read and enjoy a trip into yesterday.]
The Boy Mechanic Vol. 1 700 Things for Boys to Do 800 Illustrations Showing How
How To Construct Wireless Outfits, Boats, Camp Equipment, Aerial Gliders, Kites, Self-propelled Vehicles Engines, Motors, Electrical Apparatus, Cameras And Hundreds Of Other Things Which Delight Every Boy With 800 Illustrations Copyrighted, 1913, By H. H. Windsor Chicago Popular Mechanics Co. Publishers
Engine Details
The accompanying sketch illustrates a two-cylinder single-acting, poppet valve steam engine of home construction.
The entire engine, excepting the flywheel, shaft, valve cams, pistons and bracing rods connecting the upper and lower plates of the frame proper, is of brass, the other parts named being of cast iron and bar steel.
The cylinders, G, are of seamless brass tubing, 1-1/2 in. outside diameter; the pistons, H, are ordinary 1-1/2 in. pipe caps turned to a plug fit, and ground into the cylinders with oil and emery. This operation also finishes the inside of the cylinders.
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A Model Steam Engine
Magic Spirit Hand
Making Skis and Toboggans
Homemade Life Preserver
How to Make Boomerangs
Secret Door Lock
A Convenient Hot-Dish Holder
Magic-Box Escape
A Flour Sifter
A Funnel
How to Make Corner Pieces for a Blotter Pad
Boring Holes in Cork
Self-Lighting Arc Searchlight
A Traveler's Shaving Mug
Homemade Snowshoes
Fish Signal for Fishing through Ice
Homemade Floor Polisher
Tying Paper Bag to Make a Carrying Handle
Equilibrator for Model Aeroplanes
Repairing Christmas-Tree Decorations
Homemade Scroll Saw
How to Make a Watch Fob
An Austrian Top
Pockets for Spools of Thread
Cleaning Leather on Furniture
A Baking Pan
A Broom Holder
Stringing Wires
A Darkroom Lantern
Preventing Vegetables from Burning in a Pot
A Clothes Rack
Homemade Shower Bath
How to Make Small Sprocket Wheels
Pot-Cover Closet
Aid in Mixing Salad Dressing
Saving Overexposed Developing Prints
An Ironing-Board Stand
A Desk Blotting Pad
Sleeve Holders for Lavatories
Removing Tarnish
How to Make a Brass Bookmark
Cheesebox-Cover Tea Tray
Piercing-Punch for Brass
Kitchen Chopping Board
Carrying Mattresses
A Carpenter's Gauge
A Flatiron Rest
Use for Paper Bags
Use Chalk on Files
Homemade Telegraph Key
Keeping Food Cool in Camps
Homemade Work Basket
A Window Display
How to Make a Flint Arrowhead
An Opening Handle for a Stamp Pad
Concrete Kennel
Nutshell Photograph Novelty
Spoon Holder on a Kettle
Repairing Cracked Gramophone Records
New Use for a Vacuum Cleaner
Filtering with a Small Funnel
A Postcard Rack
Substitute Shoe Horn
Building a Small Photographic Dark Room
The Versatile Querl
An Emergency Soldering Tool
Smoothing Paper after Erasing
A Cherry Seeder
A Dovetail Joint
Base for Round-End Bottles
Rustic Window Boxes
Antidote for Squirrel Pest
Glass-Cleaning Solution
Automatic-Closing Kennel Door
Polishing Cloths for Silver
A Book-Holder
Clamping a Cork
Withdrawing Paper from under an Inverted Bottle
Emergency Tire Repair
Broom Holder Made of a Hinge
Making Proofs before the Negative Dries
Flower-Pot Stand
A Line Harmonograph
Cutting Circular Holes in Thin Sheet Metal
Key Card for Writing Unreadable Post Cards
Homemade Carpenter's Vise
Toning Blue on Bromide and Platinum
Cutting Loaf Bread
How to Make an Electric Toaster
Cabinet for the Amateur's Workshop
Uncurling Photographs
Soldering for the Amateur
Washboard Holder
A Mission Bracket Shelf
How to Make a Finger Ring
How to Bind Magazines
Metal Coverings for Leather Hinges
Removing Plaster from Skin
How to Make a Cheap Bracket Saw
How to Make a Cannon
Controller for a Small Motor
How to Make a Simple Water Rheostat
Burning Inscriptions on Trees
How to Make Small Gearwheels Without a Lathe
How to Make Four Pictures on One Plate
Electric Blue-Light Experiment
Interesting Electrical Experiment
A Cheap Fire Alarm
How to Make a Small Electric Furnace
How to Make an Ammeter
How to Make a Three-Way Cock for Small Model-Work
Easy Experiments with Electric-Light Circuit
How to Make an Interrupter
A Miniature "Pepper's Ghost" Illusion
Experiment with Colored Electric Lamps
To Explode Powder with Electricity
Simple Wireless System
Stop Crawling Water Colors
Small Electrical Hydrogen Generator
Gasoline Burner for Model Work
A Homemade Telephone Receiver
How to Bind Magazines
A Homemade Acetylene-Gas Generator
Homemade Annunciator
How to Make a Box Kite
Lubricating a Camera Shutter
Simple Open-Circuit Telegraph Line
How to Make a Thermo Battery
How to Discharge a Toy Cannon by Electricity
Simple Electric Lock
Direct-Connected Reverse for Small Motors
A Handy Ice Chisel
More Uses for Pipe Fittings
Sealing-Wax Bent While Cold
Homemade Pottery Kiln
How to Make a Small Medical Induction Coil
Mechanical Trick With Cards
How to Make a Rain Gauge
How to Make an Aquarium
Homemade Pneumatic Lock
How to Make Silhouettes
How to Make a Galvanoscope
Lubricating Sheet Metal
An Optical Top
Card Trick with a Tapered Deck
A Constant-Pressure Hydrogen Generator
Restoring Tone to a Cracked Bell
How to Make a Paper Phonograph Horn
How to Make a Hygrometer
The Protection of a Spring Lock
A Controller and Reverse for a Battery Motor
How to Build a Grape Arbor
How to Make a Toy Steam Engine
Writing with Electricity
To Photograph a Man in a Bottle
A Musical Windmill
Optical Illusions
Barrel-Stave Hammock
A Singing Telephone
How to Make a Telegraph Key and Sounder
How to Make a Music Cabinet
Easily Made Wireless Coherer
One-Wire Telegraph Line
How to Make a Water Rheostat
Electric Door-Opener
How to Tighten a Curtain-Roller Spring
Alarm Clock Chicken Feeder
Homemade Disk-Record Cabinet
A Battery Rheostat
Automatic Time Switch
How to Make a Rotary Pump
How to Make a Fire Screen
Trap for Small Animals
Homemade Grenet Battery
Door-Opener for Furnace
Beeswax for Wood Filler
How to Make a Lathe
To Use Old Battery Zincs
Callers' Approach Alarm
Easy Method of Electroplating
An Ingenious Electric Lock for a Sliding Door
Reversing-Switch for Electrical Experiments
How to Receive Wireless Telegraph Messages with a Telephone
Connecting Up Batteries to Give Any Voltage
A Simple Accelerometer
An Egg-Shell Funnel
Handy Electric Alarm
To Keep Dogs and Cats Away from the Garbage-Can
How to Cross a Stream on a Log
Relay Made from Electric Bell
Foundry Work at Home
Battery Switch
An Optical Illusion
New Method of Lifting a Table
How to Make a Paddle Boat
Peculiar Properties of Ice
Return-Call Bell With One Wire
Circuit Breaker for Induction Coils
Spit Turned by Water Power
A Short-Distance Wireless Telegraph
Automatic Draft-Opener
A Window Conservatory
How to Make an Electroscope
Miniature Electric Lighting
How to Make a New Language
How to Make a Cup-and-Saucer Rack
Reversing a Small Motor
To Drive Away Dogs
An Automatic Lock
Experiment with Two-Foot Rule and Hammer
Simple Current Reverser
Alarm Clock to Pull up Furnace Draft
How to Transmit Phonograph Music to a Distance
How to Make a Telescope
How to Make "Freak" Photographs
Another Electric Lock
How to Mix Plaster of Paris
Enlarging with a Hand Camera
Positioning A Hanging Lamp
A Curious Compressed Air Phenomenon
Simple Switch for Reversing a Current
Novel Mousetrap
Polishing Nickel
Homemade Arc Light
Lighting an Incandescent Lamp with an Induction Coil
How to Make a Jump-Spark Coil
Combined Door Bell and Electric Alarm
To Build a Small Brass Furnace
Avoid Paper Lamp Shades
Why Gravity Batteries Fail to Work
A Skidoo-Skidee Trick
Effects of Radium
Naval Speed Record
How to Enlarge from Life in the Camera
Steel Pen Used in Draftsman's Ink Bottle Cork
How to Clean a Clock
How to Make Blueprint Lantern Slides
A Substitute for a Ray Filter
Electric Lamp Experiments
To Preserve Putty
How to Make a Small Storage Battery
Fitting a Plug in Different Shaped Holes
How to Make a Lightning Arrester
A Home-Made Punt
Photographers' Printing Frame Stand
Heat and Expansion
Photographing a Streak of Lightning
Carbolic Acid Burns
How to Make a Paper Book Cover
How to Make Lantern Slides
How To Make A Porch Swing Chair
How to Find the Blind Spot in the Eye
Beeswax Substitute
Home-Made Water Wheel Does Family Washing
An Optical Illusion
Home-Made Micrometer
Another Electric Lamp Experiment
Removing Ink Stains
Feat of Balancing on Chairs
How to Make a Merry-Go-Round Swing
Home-Made Arc Lamp
Irrigation
How to Hang Your Hat on a Lead Pencil
Tying a Knot for Footballs
Stove Polish
How to Give an Electric Shock While Shaking Hands
Experiment with Heat
How to Attach a Combination Trunk Lock
An Electric Illusion Box
Replace Dry Putty
Photo Print Washing Tank
Home-Made Soldering Clamps
A Telephone Experiment
Wax Wood Screws
How to Make an Induction Coil
Home-Made Toaster
Home-Made Shocking Machine
Mahogany Wood Putty
How to Make a Hygrometer
Softening Leather in Gloves and Boots
How to Make a Mission Library Table
A Hanger for Trousers
How to Make an Adjustable Negative Washer
Turn-Down Shelf for a Small Space
Home-Made Electric Battery Massage
How to Make Tint Lantern Slides
A Bicycle Catamaran
How to Make a Lead Pencil Rheostat
Homemade Shoe Rack
How to Waterproof Canvas
Building a House in a Tree Top
How to Make a Lamp Stand and Shade
Illuminating a Watch Dial at Night
Home-Made Photographic Copying Stand
Home-Made Pocket Lamp
How to Make a Tangent Galvanometer
Home-Made X-Ray Instrument
How to Make a a Non-Polarizing Battery
A Home-Made Barometer
Lock Lubricant
Rust Proofing Bolts
Painting Yellow Pine
Revolving a Wheel with Boat Sails
A Floating Electromagnet
A Fish Bait
Homemade Air Thermometer
Home-Made Battery Voltmeter
How to Make a Folding Canvas Cot
How to Make a Small Geissler Tube
Loosening Rusted Nuts
Cleaning Greasy Stoves
How to Make a Take-Down Background Frame
Home-Made Kite Reel
Attaching Runners to a Bicycle for Winter Use
A Paper That Makes Green Prints
Copies Made from Wax Molds by Electro-Deposition
How to Make Skating Shoes
How to Make a Self-Setting Rabbit Trap
How to Make an Atomizer
Home-Made Kits for the Camera
How to Make a Miniature Stage
A Floating Compass Needle
Home-Made Dog Cart
How to Make a Dry Battery Cell
How to Paraffin Wire
Uses of Peat
Scientific Explanation of a Toy
Home-Made Lantern
A Study of Splashes
How to Make a Stick Pin
How to Make a Miniature Electric Locomotive
Demagnetizing a Watch
How to Make a Pocket Skate Sharpener
Old-Time Magic
Gear-Cutting Attachment for Small Lathes
Wire Terminals for Battery Connections
Simple Arts and Crafts Leather Work
How to Make a Simple Still
Homemade Mariner's Compass
Brighten White Paint
Quartz Electrodes Used in Receiving Wireless Messages
Boys Representing the Centaur
Home-Made Ladle for Melting Babbitt
How to Make a Flash Lamp
Photographing the New Moon
Old-Time Magic—Part II
Coin and Card on the First Finger
How to Make Sealing Wax Hat Pins
Old-Time Magic-Part III
A Chinese Outdoor Game
Home-Made Photograph of a Lightning Flash
How to Make a Static Machine
A Concrete Swimming Pool
Old-Time Magic-Part IV
How to Bore a Square Hole
How To Make Copper Trays
Photograph of a Clown Face
Optical Illusions
Steam Engine Made from Gas Pipe and Fittings
How to Make a Copper Bowl
Cleaning Furniture
Melting Lead in Tissue Paper
The Principles of the Stereograph
Mercury Make-and-Break Connections for Induction Coils
How to Make a Barometer
Home-Made Post or Swinging Light
A Checker Puzzle
Gold Railroad Signals
How to Make a Bell Tent
Simple X-Ray Experiment
How to Make a Candle Shade
A Putty Grinder
Home-Made Small Churn
Home-Made Round Swing
Old-Time Magic-Part V
How to Keep Film Negatives
Home-Made Match Safe
An Electric Post Card Projector
A Handy Calendar
The Fuming of Oak
How to Make an Electrolytic Rectifier
The Rolling Marble
A Gas Cannon
Old-Time Magic-Part VI
A Good Mouse Trap
Finishing Aluminum
How to Make a Sailing Canoe
A Home-Made Hand Vise
Proper Design for a Bird House
Boomerangs and How to Make Them
How to Make Water Wings
How to Make an Ammeter
How to Make an Equatorial
Electric Light Turned On and Off from Different Places
Optical Illusion
How to Make a Bunsen Cell
One Way to Cook Fish
Hardening Copper
Packing Cut from Felt Hats
Homemade Gasoline Engine
Dripping Carburetor
A Merry-Go-Round Thriller
How to Make and Fly a Chinese Kite
Home-Made Vise
Home-Made Changing Bag for Plate Holders
Home-Made Asbestos Table Pads
How to Make a Ladies' Handbag
Removing Wire Insulation
A Small Electric Motor
Moving a Coin Under a Glass
Improving Phonograph Sound
How to Make Paper Balloons
A Simple Steamboat Model
To Remove Grease from Machinery
A Game Played on the Ice
Making Photo Silhouette Brass Plaques
Aligning Automobile Headlights
Telescope Stand and Holder
How to Make an Electrical Horn
Driving a Washing Machine with Motorcycle Power
Home-Made Aquarium
Protect Your Lathe
Frame for Displaying Both Sides of Coins
How to Make Lantern Slides
How to Make a Developing Box
Staining Wood
Sheet-Metal Whisk-Broom Holder
How to Make a Camp Stool
A Small Home-Made Electric Motor
Rocker Blocks on Coaster Sleds
How to Make a Watch Fob
Drill Lubricant
New Way to Remove a Bottle Stopper
Imitation Fancy Wings on Hinges
How to Make a Child's Rolling Toy
How to Make a Portfolio
Gear for Model Work
A Home-Made Vise
Cardboard Spiral Turned by Heat
A Workbench for the Amateur
Repairing a Worn Knife Blade
How to Make a Leather Spectacle Case
Waterproofing a Wall
Polishing Flat Surfaces
Rubber Tip for Chair Legs
Adjusting a Plumb-Bob Line
Drier for Footwear
Repairing A Roller Shade
A Shot Scoop
Removing Grease Stains from the Leaves of a Book
Tightening Cane in Furniture
Cleaner for a Stovepipe
Mounting Photo Prints on Glass
Dropping Coins in a Glass Full of Water
Hollow-Grinding Ice Skates
How to Make a Bicycle Coasting Sled
Spelling Names with Photo Letters
Holding a Loose Screw
A Checker Board Puzzle
Old-Time Magic
How to Remove Paper from Stamps
A Dovetail Joint Puzzle
Radiator Water
Springboard for Swimmers
Taking Button from a Child's Nostril
Brass Frame in Repoussé
Finding the Horsepower of Small Motors
Illusion for Window Attraction
Cleaner for White Shoes
Crossing Belt Laces
How to Make a Candlestick Holder
A Home-Made Duplicator
Paper-Clip Bookmark
Aerating Water in a Small Tank
Imitation Arms and Armor-Part II
How to Make a Round Belt Without Ends
Old-Time Magic
Cheap Nails are Expensive
Cutting Lantern Slide Masks
Relieving the Weight of a Talking Machine Reproducer
How to Make a Thermometer Back in Etched Copper
To Make an Electric Piano
Imitation Arms and Armor—Part III
Playing Baseball with a Pocket Knife
How to Remove Paper Stuck to a Negative
Old-Time Magic
Using the Sun's Light in a Magic Lantern
A Handy Drill Gauge
Stove Polish
A Home-Made Daniell Cell
A Ground Glass Substitute
A Miniature War Dance
Saving an Engine
Old-Time Magic
Sliding Box Cover Fastener
How to Chain a Dog
Water-Color Box
Saving Ink Pens
A Plant-Food Percolator
Lathe Safety
Folding Quilting-Frames
A Drip Shield for the Arms
How to Cane Chairs
Repairing a Cracked Composition Developing Tray
How to Lay Out a Sundial
Imitation Arms and Armor-Part IV
An Emergency Babbitt Ladle
How to Make Japanese Portieres
Makeshift Camper's Lantern
New Tires for Carpet-Sweeper Wheels
Gauntlets on Gloves
How to Make an Ornamental Brass Flag
An Adjustable Punching-Bag Platform
Clasp for Holding Flexible Lamp Cords
Protect Camel Hair Brushes
Home-Made Electric Clock
Method of Joining Boards
Toy Gun for Throwing Cardboard Squares
Photographic Developing Tray
Iron Putty
Rubber Bands in Kite Balancing Strings
An Aid in Sketching
How to Make Miniature Electric Lamp Sockets
Imitation Arms and Armor-Part V
How to Repair Linoleum
How to Make an Electric Stove
How to Make Weights for Athletes
Removing Pies from Pans
Stretcher for Drying Photograph Prints
A Temporary Funnel
An Electric Engine
Child's Home-Made Swing Seat
Clay Flower Pots Used for Bird Houses
Location of a Gas Meter
How to Make Rope Grills
A Simple and Effective Filter
Cutting Tools
Imitation Arms and Armor-Part VI
Home-Made Hand Vise
Detector for Slight Electrical Charges
Fishing through Ice with a Tip-Up
Home-Made Candle Holder
How to Make a Match Holder of Wood and Metal
Protecting the Fingers from Chemicals
Combined Turning Rings and Swings
Homemade Telegraph Key
Protecting Sleeves
Imitation Arms and Armor—Part VII
A Home-Made Tripod Holder
How to Weave a Shoestring Watch Fob
How to Make a Table Mat of Leather
Sad Iron Polisher
Making Coins Stick to Wood by Vacuum
Simple and Safe Method for Sending Coins by Mail
Mounting Photographs in Plaster Plaques
Iron Rest for an Ironing Board
Instantaneous Crystallization
Decoloration of Flowers by Fumes of Sulphur
How to Preserve Egg Shells
Homemade Phonograph
A Substitute for a Compass
A Novel Rat Trap
A Nut-Cracking Block
A Jelly-Making Stand
How to Make an Egg-Beater
Cart Without an Axle
An Illuminated Target
Sawing Sheet Metal
Feed Box for Chickens
A Book Rest
Window Shelf for Flower Pots
Magnet for the Work Basket
Knife Made from a Hack-Saw Blade
Killing Mice and Rats
Roller Coaster Illusion Traveling Up an Incline
Block for Planing Octagonal Wood Pieces
A Letter Holder of Pierced Metal
Imitating Ground Glass
Draw before Cutting
Making "Spirits" Play a Violin
Sizing a Threaded Hole
Leaded-Glass Fire Screen
A Revolving Teeter Board
Home-Made Pot Covers
An Outdoor Gymnasium Part I-The Horizontal Bar
Electrostatic Illumination
A Cork Extractor
An Outdoor Gymnasium Part II-Parallel Bars
Combined Ladle and Strainer
Cleaning Gloves
Turpentine in Cutting Oil
Center of Gravity Experiment
Lathe Accuracy
An Outdoor Gymnasium PART III-The Horse
Spoon Rest for Kettles
Reason for Bursting of Gun Barrels
Hand Sled Made of Pipe and Fittings
Emergency Magnifying Glass
Bent-Iron Pipe Rack
To Clean Silver
Sharpening Skates with a File
Lines and Letters Made with a Carpenter's Pencil
Insulating Aluminum Wire
Turning Lights On and Off from Any Number of Places
How to Make an Electric Pendant Switch
Measure
Home-Made Water Motor
Device for Baseball Throwing Practice
How to Mail Photographs
A Mystifying Watch Trick
Locking Several Drawers with One Lock
Testing Small Electric Lamps
How to Make a Pin Ball
Cleaning Woodwork
Bill File Made of Corkscrews
Ornamental Metal Inkstand
Holding Eyeglasses Firm
Substitute for Gummed Paper
Repairing a Broken Phonograph Spring
Calls While You Are Out
A Small Bench Lathe Made of Pipe Fittings
Holder for Flexible Lamp-Cord
Support for Double Clotheslines
Hot Pan or Plate Lifter
Weighting Indian Clubs
Venting a Funnel
Lubricating Woodscrews
To Make "Centering" Unnecessary
Fountain Pen Cap Used as a Ruler
Vanishing Handkerchief Trick
Removing Glass Letters from Windows
A Guitar That Is Easy to Make
Greasing the Front Wheels of an Automobile
Removing Mold
To Hang Heavy Things on a Nail
A Home-Made Elderberry Huller
How to Make a Bulb on a Glass Tube
How to Make a Sconce
How To Make a Hectograph
A Home-Made Magic Lantern
A Quickly Made Lamp
How to Make a Paper Aeroplane
Bronze Liquid
A Wrestling Mat
A Pocket Voltammeter
A Film Washing Trough
Wood Burning
The Diving Bottle
How to Make an Inexpensive Wooden Fan
Combination Telegraph and Telephone Line
How to Make a Miniature Windmill
How to Make a Telegraph Instrument and Buzzer
How to Make a Water Bicycle
How To Make a Small Searchlight
Electric Alarm that Rings a Bell and Turns on a Light
How to Hold a Screw on a Screwdriver
How to Make a Lead Cannon
Homemade Electric Bed Warmer
Making a Fire with the Aid of Ice
How to Make a Crossbow and Arrow Sling
A Home-Made Vise
Temporary Dark Room Lantern
Runny Paint
Camps and How to Build Them
Brooder for Small Chicks
Faucet Used as an Emergency Plug
Automatic Electric Heat Regulator
Repairing a Washer on a Flush Valve
Cleaning Discolored Silver
Protecting Tinware
Another Optical Illusion
Substitute for Insulating Cleats
Electrically Operated Indicator for a Wind Vane
A Home-Made Floor Polisher
How to Make a Lady's Card-Case
Home-Made Fire Extinguisher
Crutch Made of an Old Broom
Toy Darts and Parachutes
A Tool for Lifting Can Covers
Keeping Rats from a Chicken Coop
Homemade Telephone Receiver
How to Clean Jewelry
Ornamental Iron Flower Stand
How to Make a Coin Purse
Window Anti-Frost Solution
How to Make a Turbine Engine
Painting A Car
How To Build An Ice Boat
Electric Rat Exterminator
How to Make a Simple Fire Alarm
To Build a Merry-Go-Round
Arbor Wheels
Novelty Clock for the Kitchen
How to Make a Small Silver Plating Outfit
Removing a Tight-Fitting Ring from a Finger
A Photographic Jig-Saw Puzzle
Rolling Uphill Illusion
Maple Leaf
Annealing Chisel Steel
How to Make a Post Card Holder
Unused Paint
Perfume-Making Outfit
Home-Made Duplicator for Box Cameras
Optical Illusions
Use of Kerosene in Polishing Metals
How to Make Lamps Burn Brightly
Use for an Old Clock
Renewing Dry Batteries
Saving a Brush
How to Make a Simple Burglar Alarm
How to Fit Corks
Right Handed Engine
Home-Made Crutch
Home-Made Necktie Holder
How to Make a Trousers Hanger
Easy Designs in Ornamental Iron Work
How to Make a Water Wheel
How To Build An Imitation Street Car Line
Clean Before Painting
Varnish for Electric Terminals
Measuring the Height of a Tree
White Putty to Black
Using Sandpaper
An Interesting Electrical Experiment
Novelty Chain Made from a Match
Keeping Doors Closed
Restoring Broken Negatives
Coin and Tumbler Trick
Another Way to Renew Dry Batteries
Simply Made Wire Puzzle
Pronunciation
Repairing Box Cameras
A Fishhook Box
A Tin Drinking Cup for the Camp
A Bookmark
Kitchen Knife Sharpener
The Running Sleigh
Home-Made Settee
Enameling a Bicycle Frame
How to Make a Sewing Bag
Home-Made Roller Skates
Adjuster for Flexible Electric Wires
Making Photographs on Watch Dials
Home-Made Overhead Trolley Coaster
How to Make an Electric Furnace Regulator
Weatherproofing for Tents
Sawing Sheet Metal
A Monoplane Weather Vane
How to Make a Minnow Trap
A Remedy for Leaking Fountain Pens
Kites of Many Kinds and How to Make Them
How to Make Rubber Stamps
To Light a Gaslight Without Matches
How To Make a Trap For Rabbits, Rats and Mice
Novel Electric Motor
How to Print Photographs on Silk
Removing Old Paint
A Window Lock
Homemade Magnifying Glass
Trailer for a Bicycle
Home-Made Telephone Transmitter
Quickly Made Lawn Tent
How to Make a Windmill of One or Two Horsepower for Practical Purposes
To Renew Old Dry Batteries
Blue Dye
Acetylene lamp
Another Electric Motor
How to Make a Propelling Vehicle
Ringing a Bell by Touching a Gas Jet
Lead Kills Knots
How to Make a Wood Turning Lathe Out of an Old Sewing Machine
Reversing Small Battery Motor
Cleaning Bronze Bearings
A Water Candlestick
How to File Soft Metals
To Make a Magazine Binder
Temporary Spline
Cleaning Brass
A Phoneidoscope
A Home-Made Yankee Bobsled
How to Make a Small Microscope
Freezing Pipes
How to Carry Books
Bottle Pushers
How to Make a Hammock
How to Obtain Cheap Dry Batteries
How to Make a Water Telescope
How to Rid Your Yard of Cats
Substitute for a Drill Bit
Drying Films
Grooved Pulley Made from Sheet Tin
An Emergency Glass Funnel
An Electrical Walking Stick
Convenient Shelf Arrangement
A Shoe Scraper
Fastening a Shade to a Roller
Vegetable Slicer
How to Make an Etched Copper Picture Frame
How to Make an Easel
How to Make a Wind Propeller
Replacing Ball Bearings
How to Construct an Annunciator
How to Make a Steam Calliope
Sharpening Scissors
Counter Brush for a Shop
A Curtain Roller
Shade-Holder Bracket for a Gas Jet
To Longer Preserve Cut Flowers
Glass Blowing and Forming
Cadmium and Solder
Telegraph Codes
How to Make a Cruising Catamaran
Alligator Photo Mounts
How to Attach a Sail to a Bicycle
Removing Iodine Stains
Drying Photograph Prints without Curling
Puncturing Glass Plates
A Home-Made Still
Old-Time Magic
Experiment with an Incandescent Lamp
How to Make a Small Motor
Aluminum Polish
Homemade Blowpipe
Substitute Sink or Bathtub Stopper
Safety Tips on Chair Rockers
How to Make a Toy Flier
How to Make an Ironing-Board Stand
A Home-Made Electric Plug
How to Make an Electric Fire Alarm
Home-Made Boy's Car
Photographs in Relief Easily Made
Wireless Tip
How to Make a Wireless Telephone
Eyelets for Belts
How to Make a Life Buoy
A Home-Made Microscope
A Novel Electric Time Alarm
How to Make a Phonograph Record Cabinet
Experiments with a Mirror
Miniature Electric Lamps
How to Make a Magazine Clamp
Pewter Finish for Brass
Drowning a Dog's Bark with Water
Cost of Water
How to Make a 110-Volt Transformer
Experiment with a Vacuum
The Making of Freak Photographs
Hand Car Made of Pipe and Fittings
How to Make a Rustic Seat
Heated Steering Wheel
Forming Coils to Make Flexible Wire Connections
Photographing the North Star
How to Relight a Match
Home-Made Hand Drill
How to Make a Stationary Windmill
Electric Anesthesia
A Simple Battery Rheostat
A Frame for Drying Films
A Home-Made Novelty Clock
Fourth-of-July Catapult
How to Make a Miniature Volcano
Wire Loop Connections for Battery Binding-Posts
Melting Metal in the Flame of a Match
Russian Squirrels
Landscape Drawing Made Easy
Irrigating with Tomato Cans
Fountain for an Ordinary Pen
Homemade Mousetrap
Clear Wax Impressions from Seals
A Window Stick
How to Make a Canoe
Thorns Used as Needles on a Phonograph
Tool Hangers
Child's Footrest on an Ordinary Chair
Drying Photo Postal Cards
Preserving Key Forms
Renewing Typewriter Ribbons
Drinking Trough for Chickens
Ordinary Pen Used as a Fountain Pen
A Tailless Kite
The Levitation—A Modern Stage Trick
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