Do You Know a Boy Who is Waiting for this Book?
He may have the few tools and materials to be found in every household, or he may possess his own complete chest of tools and well-equipped workshop, but something is lacking—He needs ideas—suggestions of things to make or do. He is tired of all the things that he and his companions have been able to think of. Now there are hundreds of other boys scattered all over this big country who have many new and interesting ideas he has never thought of, but how can this one boy ever get in touch with all these others? In just one way—through the pages of
Book I
The Boy Mechanic
A Few Practical Features:
¶ A large number of the things described may be made from old cast-off articles which the average boy has at his disposal.
¶ Many articles involving the purchase of only a few cents worth of material will be found fully as serviceable as similar ones costing several dollars.
¶ Scores of handy things the family can use in the home are described.
¶ Finally, this book will develop and interest the boy along mechanical lines and educate him at his play.
The Great Book of 700 Things For Boys To Do
These original, practical suggestions have been furnished by hundreds of boys who have actually built and experimented with the devices they are now telling other boys how to build. In no other way could a book containing such a wide and interesting variety of contents have been prepared, for no one author or staff of writers, for that matter, could have possibly gleaned such a wealth of ideas from their own observation and experience.
BOOK I—THE BOY MECHANIC
Represents the Best Accomplishments of
the Mechanical Genius of Young America
for the material used in the book is a careful selection of only those articles which are new, practical and of more than ordinary interest; the selection having been made by mechanical experts who still have active recollections of their boyhood interests. It gives complete directions for making all the things boys love to build and experiment with in the fields of electricity, mechanics, sports, arts and crafts work, magic, etc., such as Electrical Appliances—Steam and Gas Engines—Turbines—Motors—Wireless and Morse Telegraph—Self-Propelled Vehicles—Toboggans—Ice Boats—Canoes—Paddle Boats—Punts—Camping Outfits—Tents—Fishing Tackle—Magic Lanterns—Searchlights—Cameras—Telescopes—Gliders, Kites and Balloons—Electric Furnaces—Lathes—Pottery Kilns. A boy would be an old man before he could make half the things described in this wonderful book. It is entirely different from any other published and has
"Wish I knew what to make"
700 Articles—480 Pages—800 Illustrations
(7 x 10)
Price $2.00 Postpaid
It is clearly printed on high-grade book paper and durably bound in cloth. The cover is of an attractive design in four colors showing a boy building a small boat. There are ten solid pages of index alone. Neither care nor expense have been spared to make this the greatest boys' book published, and to enable as many boys as possible to have one, the price has been made absolutely as low as possible. It would be difficult to think of a way of investing $2.00 that would benefit a boy as much as through the purchase of one of these books.
POPULAR MECHANICS BOOK DEPARTMENT
6 North Michigan Ave.
CHICAGO