CONTENTS - The boy mechanic, book 3 - 823

Acetylene Burner, Spray Nozzle Made of, [248]
Acid Jars, Earthen Mustard Pots Used as, [391]
Adhesive Tape, Handy Use for, [407]
Aerial Cableway, Compensated, [198]
Aerials, Wireless, Lightning Switch for, [415]
Aeroplanes, Model, Egg Beater Made into Winder for, [459]
Aid in Ruling Uniform Cards or Sheets, [420]
Air Pump, Protecting Against Denting, [412]
Alarm, Rain, with Drop-of-Water Contact, [161]
Alcohol Blowtorch for Difficult Soldering, [382]
Alcohol, Denatured, to Start Gasoline Stove, [413]
Alcohol Stove, Emergency, [350]
Alligator of Wood, Mechanical Toy, [460]
Alternating Current, Seeing in a Mirror, [392]
Aluminum Cooking Utensils, Mending, [437]
Aluminum-Ware Cleaner, Steel Wool as, [162]
Ammeter, Homemade, [253]
Ammonia-Carrying Case for Insect Bites, [154]
Anchor for Canoe or Small Boat, [275]
Anemometer, Easily Constructed Ball-Bearing, [213]
Angle Bracket Gives Leverage on Door Spring, [460]
Angle of Camera, Photo Copying Lens Increases, [160]
Annunciator Target, Recording, [310]
Apples and Other Fruit, Device Quarters and Cores, [453]
Applying and Drying Bronze Powders, [338]
Appointments and Other Events, Clock Device to Record Time of, [322]
Aquarium, Cement Grotto for, [235]
Arc Light, Homemade, [285]
Arm, Desk Light, Folds into Pigeonhole, [452]
Arm, Detachable Chair, [429]
Armchair, Enameled, Made of Wooden Strips, [129]
Arms of a Scarecrow, Swinging Bags on, [340]
Army in Small Box, [438]
Artistic Card Tray, [340]
Asbestos Table Mats Reinforced with Wire Netting, [421]
Ash Tray, Cheese Grater and, Made from a Tin Can, [225]
Ash Tray, Snapper Shell, [68]
Athletic Equipment Locker, Boys’, [439]
Atomizer, Bottle Economizes Spray Liquid in, [450]
Auto Horn for Child’s Play Vehicle, [16]
Auto, Play, Barrel Staves as Springs for, [311]
Auto Truck Frame, Reinforcing Strained, [454]
Automatic Fishhook, [370]
Automatic Flash Light Snaps Chicken-Coop Marauder, [142]
Automatic Lock Box for Milk Bottles, [428]
Automatic Photo-Print Washing Device, [329]
Automatic Stop for Spring-Roller Curtains, [317]
Automatic Window Closer, [280]
Automobile, Bicycle Carried on, as Tender, [190]
Automobile Seat, Porch Swing Made from, [425]
Automobile, Suitcase Holder for Running Board of, [329]
Baby-Cab Tires, Changing Wheels Equalizes Wear on, [446]
Baby Crib, Neat and Economical, Made from a Clothes Basket, [206]
Baby, Motor-Driven Entertainer for, [4]
Baby, Washstand for, [328]
Baby’s Play Area, Portable Fence for, [195]
Back Rest, Folding Ground Seat with, [190]
Backing Picture Frame, Plier Drives Nails in, [450]
Backstop, Knock-Down Tennis-Court, [189]
Backwoodsman’s Nutcracker, [450]
Bags, Swinging, on Arms of Scarecrow, [340]
Bait Cache, Campers’, [171]
Bait Casting for Game Fish, [71]
Bait, Catching Minnows for, [168]
Bait, Luminous-Minnow Fish, [314]
Ball-Bearing Anemometer, Easily Constructed, [213]
Balloons, Toy Rubber, Filling with Hydrogen, [30]
Band, Metal, Stiffens Brush, [367]
Bare Spots on Lawns, Seeding, [167]
Bark-Covered Porch Light and Plant Shelf, [432]
Barnyard Gate Operated with the Foot, [208]
Barometer, Simple, [415]
Barrel, Cushioned Chair Made of, [440]
Barrel Staves as Springs for Play Auto, [311]
Base, Weighting Metal, [217]
Baseball Playing, To Practice Batting for, [100]
Basement, Signal for Lighted Lights in, [314]
Basin, Dish-Draining, Old Sink Installed as, [452]
Basin, Simple Metal Bird, [432]
Basket, Hourglass Sewing, [137]
Bathroom Kinks, Three, [402]
Battery Buzzer Converted into a Telegraph Sounder, [141]
Battery Circuits, Homemade Fuses for, [151]
Batting for Baseball Playing, To Practice, [100]
Bazaar or Fair Booth, Rustic Well for, [182]
Bearing for Playground Swings, [276]
Bearing Made of Brass Cartridge, [382]
Beating, Hanging Heavy Rug on Line for, [389]
Bed, Antique Signboard Made of Headboard of, [15]
Bed, Folding Card Table Handy for Invalid in, [308]
Bed Table, Adjustable and Pivoted, Attached to Bedpost, [9]
Bedpost, Adjustable and Pivoted Bed Table Attached to, [9]
Bedroom Night Light, Flash Light Used as, [423]
Bedroom Shade and Curtains Arranged for Thorough Ventilation, [128]
Bedsteads, Old, Lawn Benches Made from, [174]
Bee Feeder for Winter Use, [192]
Bell, Call, Curious Support for, [362]
Bell-Circuit Wiring, Tinned Staples for, [420]
Bell-Ringing Hoop, Child’s, [449]
Bell-Ringing Mail Box, [422]
Belt for Sprocket Drive Made of Brass Strips, [160]
Bench, Clamping a Wide Board on, [248]
Bench Receptacles for Small Articles, [350]
Bench Stop, [395]
Bench Support for a Miter Box, [336]
Bench Vise, Quick-Acting, [85]
Benches, Lawn, Made from Old Bedsteads, [174]
Berth, Train, Improved Trousers Hanger in, [367]
Bicycle Carried on Automobile as Tender, [190]
Bicycle Fitted Up to Resemble Motorcycle, [441]
Bicycle-Handle Grip on Rake Handle, [372]
Bicycle Lamp, Generator Attachment Provides Current for, [457]
Bicycle, Parcel-Delivery, Sidecar for, [407]
Bicycle Pump, Cleaning Type Cases with, [451]
Bicycle Pump, Pneumatic Door Check Made of, [169]
Bicycle, Rear Seat for Motorcycle or, [446]
Bicycle Runners for Winter Use, [418]
Bicycles Driven as Three-Wheel Tandem After Breakdown, [410]
Bilge Water Siphoned Through Water-Jacket Outlet, [413]
Billfold, Craftsman Leather, [446]
Billfold, Squirrel-Skin, [265]
Binder for Magazines, Temporary, [370]
Binding, Knife to Trim Magazines for, [286]
Birch-Bark Leggings Made in the Woods, [421]
Bird Basin, Simple Metal, [432]
Bird House Made of Kegs, [134]
Bird House Made of Old Straw Hat, [181]
Bird Photography, Camera for, [426]
Bird Table, Cat-Proof, [76]
Bites, Insect, Ammonia-Carrying Case for, [154]
Blades, Propeller, How to Make Quickly, [395]
Blind Person, Homemade Device Aids in Writing, [438]
Block Plane Converted for Use on Circular Work, [211]
Blotter Attached to Wrist Saves Time, [295]
Blotter, Trick, [354]
Blotting Paper, White, Improves Light Reflectors, [196]
Blower for a Fireplace, [318]
Blowpipe for Gas, [336]
Blowtorch, Alcohol, for Difficult Soldering, [382]
Blue Roses Tinged by Chemicals, [406]
Board, Sliding, for Coasting, [14]
Board, Wide, Clamping on a Bench, [248]
Boat, Canoe or, Stored in Pulley Slings, [361]
Boat, Portable Folding, [135]
Boat, Small, Canoe or, Anchor for, [275]
Boats, Model Paddle-Wheel, [443]
Book and Document Protector, [294]
Book Form, Keeping Magazines in, [378]
Book Holder, Homemade, [193]
Book Rest for Music Stand, [328]
Book, Specimen, Preserving Leaves in, [10]
Bookcase and Writing Desk, Combination, [316]
Bookcase, Trunk, for Convenient Shipment, [217]
Bookmark, Leather and Silk, [218]
Bookshelf, Index for Popular Mechanics Magazine on, [308]
Bookshelf, Secret Trinket Case for, [296]
Booth, Bazaar or Fair, Rustic Well for, [182]
Bottle Carrier Made of Pipe Straps, [217]
Bottle, Die in, [276]
Bottle Economizes Spray Liquid in Atomizer, [450]
Bottle, Glass, as a Candle Lamp, [291]
Bottle, Glass, Cutting with Electricity, [230]
Bottle, To Uncork, with a String, [402]
Boughs, Springy Hammock Support Made of, [369]
Box, Automatic Lock, for Milk Bottles, [428]
Box Camera, Direct View Finder for, [353]
Box Cover, Hinged, Made Without Hinges, [141]
Box Cover Without Hinges, [46]
Box End, Scoop Made of, [433]
Box for Campers, Table, [124]
Box Farm, Fort Built of Snow Blocks Made in, [409]
Box, Hinged Window, [413]
Box, Loading, to Dispense with Dark Room, [268]
Box, Novel Covered, for Index Trays, [414]
Box, Pasteboard, Shortening, [337]
Box, Small, Army in, [438]
Box to Protect Extra Spark Plugs, [440]
Boxes, Decorative Toys and, Made at Home, [299]
Boy Can Make Useful Periscope, [305]
Boys’ Athletic-Equipment Locker, [439]
Boys’ Motor Car, Homemade, [1]
Bracelet, One-Piece, Cut from Calling Card, [319]
Bracket, Angle, Gives Leverage on Door Spring, [460]
Bracket for Garden Hose, Practical, [417]
Bracket, Gas-Hose, for Ironing or Shop Use, [360]
Brake, Safety, Coaster with, [273]
Brass Candlestick, Repairing, [372]
Brass Cartridge, Bearing Made of, [382]
Brass Machine Screws with Nuts, [68]
Brass Strips, Belt for Sprocket Drive Made of, [160]
Brass Tip on Cartridge Fuse, Bushing Made of, [393]
Brick Walls, Wire Trellis Fastened Neatly to, [8]
Bristles in Polish or Stencil Brushes, Wire Compacts, [439]
Broken Canoe Paddle, Repairing, [158]
Broken Coffee Pot Knob, Replacing, [226]
Broken Fly-Screen Frame, Repairing, [356]
Broken Liquid Column in Thermometer, Joining, [366]
Broken Metal Cross, Repairing, [389]
Broken Places on Enamel, Filling in, [178]
Broken Reed Handle, Repairing, [187]
Broken Spade Handle Repaired with Water Pipe, [242]
Bromide Enlargements, Curved Printing Surface for Sharp Focus in, [186]
Bromide Enlargements, Test Exposure for, [411]
Bromide Enlargements, Washing, [336]
Bronze Powders, Applying and Drying, [338]
Brooder, [371]
Brooding House, Chick, Shield for Heater in, [295]
Broom, Moving Heavy Objects with, [445]
Brush and Container, Mucilage, Made of a Test Tube, [335]
Brush-Cutting Knife, Pruning and, [449]
Brush, Metal Band Stiffens, [367]
Brushes, Polish or Stencil, Wire Compacts Bristles in, [439]
Buggy Shafts, Old, Toboggan Made of, [410]
Buggy Springs, Discarded, for Diving Board, [429]
Bulb, Light, Testing Dry Cells with, [267]
Bumpers, Door, Raise Height of Chair, [358]
Bungalow, California, for Canaries, [437]
Bunghole, Stopper for, [254]
Burns, Stove Lighter with Feeding Wick Guards Against, [459]
Bushing Made of Brass Tip on Cartridge Fuse, [393]
Button Clasps, Old, Practical Uses for, [432]
Buttonhole-Bouquet Holder to Keep Cut Flowers Fresh, [149]
Buttonhook, Fancy, How to Make, [371]
Buttonhook, Screwdriver Made from, [362]
Buttons, Miniature Push, [251]
Butts, Plain, Used as Double-Swing Hinge, [330]
Buzzer, Battery, Converted into a Telegraph Sounder, [141]
Cabinet and Table, Combination Camp-Kitchen, [126]
Cabinet Doors, Wire Holders Keep Open, [127]
Cabinet, Homemade Talking Machine, [310]
Cabinet, Magic, [345]
Cabinet or Cellarette, Smoker’s, [32]
Cabinet, Sportsman’s, for Guns, Equipment and Books, [434]
Cabinetwork, Storage of Wood for, [389]
Cableway, Compensated Aerial, [198]
Cage, Wire-Mesh, Fisherman’s Pail with, [454]
Cakes, Pop-Corn, How to Make, [153]
Calendar, Perpetual, [43]
California Bungalow for Canaries, [437]
Calipers, Homemade, [373]
Call Bell, Curious Support for, [362]
Calling Card, One-Piece Bracelet Cut from, [319]
Camera, Box, Direct View Finder for, [353]
Camera, Enlarging, Improvised Post-Card Projector and, [209]
Camera for Bird Photography, [426]
Camera for Taking Pictures from Kite, [52]
Camera Shutter, Simple Arrangement for Releasing from Distance, [458]
Camera, Submarine, [219]
Camera, Substitute for Ground Glass in, [236]
Camera, Photo-Copying Lens Increases Angle of, [160]
Camera Tripod, Tilting Top for, [242]
Camera View Finder, Rectangular Opening to Use Over, [125]
Cameras, Enlarging, Focusing Screen for, [388]
Camp Chest, Guarding Against Theft, [362]
Camp Equipment, Care and Storage of, [304]
Camp Fire, Utensil Rack for, [397]
Camp-Kitchen Cabinet and Table, Combination, [126]
Camp Lantern Made of a Tin Can, [406]
Camp or Kitchen, Slicing Board for, [247]
Camp, Shaving Lamp and Mirror for, [162]
Camp Shelter Affords Protection from Mosquitoes, [181]
Camp Stoves, Emergency, Quickly Made, [449]
Camp, Summer, Diving Tower for, [274]
Camp Water Bag, [122]
Camper’s Bait Cache, [171]
Camper’s Salt-and-Pepper Holder, [115]
Campers, Table Box for, [124]
Campfire, Water Wheel Turns Spit Over, [429]
Camping and Outing Trips, Memorandum List for, [365]
Camping Out, Tricks of:
Part I.—The Camping Outfit, [109]
Part II.—Cooking in the Woods, [117]
Can, Come-Back Rolling, [298]
Can, Tin, Camp Lantern Made of, [406]
Canal, Current of, Raises Irrigation Water, [411]
Canaries, California Bungalow for, [437]
Candle Lamp, Glass Bottle as, [291]
Candle, Lighting Without Touching the Wick, [334]
Candles, Magic, Explained, [355]
Candlestick, Brass, Repairing, [372]
Candlestick Mission, [60]
Candlesticks, Sectional Spun-Metal, Repairing, [382]
Candlesticks Wired Neatly for Electric Lamps, [5]
Candy Figures, Hollow, Mold for Making, [122]
Cane Made of Tubing Contains Cigars, [430]
Cane, Turned, with Snakes Inlaid, [325]
Cannon-Shell Dinner Bell, [399]
Cannon Shell, Miniature, Match Safe of, [335]
Canoe, How to Build:
Part I.—Specifications and List of Materials, [77]
Part II.—Sailing the Open Paddling Canoe, [86]
Part III.—Fitting a Motor into a Paddling Canoe, [89]
Canoe or Boat Stored in Pulley Slings, [361]
Canoe or Small Boat, Anchor for, [275]
Canoe Paddle, Repairing Broken, [158]
Canoe, Paddling Your Own:
Part I.—Kinds of Canoes, [95]
Part II.—Knack of Handling the Paddle, [102]
Canoe, Patching Canvas Bottom of, [430]
Cans, Large, Wheelbarrow for, [330]
Cans, Nail Carrier Made of, [414]
Canteen, How to Make, [54]
Canvas Bottom of a Canoe, Patching, [430]
Carbon Electric Water Heater, [356]
Card Deception, Simple, [168]
Card Frame, Enchanted, [194]
Card Index, Removal Marker for, [372]
Card or Ticket Holder, Revolving, [369]
Card Table, Folding, Handy for Invalid in Bed, [308]
Card, Tossing at Mark Accurately, [69]
Card Tray, Artistic, [340]
Card Trick, Diminishing, [396]
Card, Written, Magically Naming, [61]
Cardboard Creaser, [378]
Cardboard, Dies for Cutting, [315]
Cardboard Tubes for Electrical Coils, Making, [438]
Cardboard Writing and Drawing Pad, [130]
Cards, Feeding into Typewriter, [437]
Cards or Sheets, Uniform, Aid in Ruling, [420]
Care and Storage of Camp Equipment, [304]
Care of Umbrellas, Kinks on, [422]
Caring for, Files, Testing and, [400]
Carrying Strap and Lock for Hand Cases, [328]
Cart for Carrying Huge Drum in Parade, [435]
Cartridge, Brass, Bearing Made of, [382]
Cartridge Fuse, Bushing Made of Brass Tip on, [393]
Case, Ammonia-Carrying, for Insect Bites, [154]
Case for Fishhooks Made of a Tin Can, [267]
Case, Waterproof Dry-Battery, [265]
Cases of Drawers, Simple Concealed Locking Device for, [4]
Caster Board for Scrubbing and Floorwork, [293]
Caster Supports, Handy Parcel Carrier with, [6]
Casting, Bait, for Game Fish, [71]
Castings, Similar Small, Making Lead Soldiers and, [455]
Castings Without Patterns, [374]
Cat-and-Bells Scarecrow, [426]
Cat-Proof Bird Table, [76]
Catch-Ail Screen Inside Hot-Air Register, [432]
Catching Large Fish with a Teaspoon, [401]
Cedar Oil, Treating Closets with, [208]
Cellarette, Smoker’s Cabinet or, [32]
Celluloid Cover for Road Maps, [295]
Cement Grotto for an Aquarium, [235]
Cement Plant, Miniature, [383]
Chain Weight Prevents Whipping of Flag, [409]
Chains, Gas-Fixture, Sleeve Aids in Distinguishing, [247]
Chair Arm, Detachable, [429]
Chair, Cushioned, Made of Barrel, [440]
Chair, Door Bumpers Raise Height of, [358]
Chair, High, [318]
Chair, Morris, with Newspaper Rack and Smoker’s Trays, [309]
Chair, Removable Headrest for, [432]
Chair Seat, Convenient Tool Drawer Under, [169]
Changing Wheels Equalizes Wear on Baby-Cab Tires, [446]
Check, Homemade Screen-Door, [392]
Checking a Rip in Tire Tubes, [354]
Cheese Grater and Ash Tray Made from a Tin Can, [225]
Chemicals, Roses Tinged Blue by, [406]
Chest, Camp, Guarding Against Theft, [362]
Chest Expander, Comic, for Play or Stage Use, [429]
Chest, Homemade, Linoleum Panels for, [425]
Chest Lock, Making More Secure, [94]
Chests, Miniature Metal-Bound, [287]
Chick Brooding House, Shield for Heater in, [295]
Chicken-Coop Marauder, Automatic Flash Light Snaps, [142]
Child, Spoon Attachment to Prevent from Using Left Hand, [317]
Child’s Bell-Ringing Hoop, [449]
Child’s Play Vehicle, Auto Horn for, [16]
Child’s Swing Built of Pipes in Narrow Space, [358]
Chimes, Set of Electric, [368]
China Banding Wheel, Disk Talking Machine as, [10]
Choke and Pattern of a Gun, [63]
Chopping Block, Safety, [187]
Churn Attachment, Washing Machine Equipped with, [208]
Chute, Gravity Delivery, Fruit-Picking Pole with, [367]
Cigar and Pipe Lighter, Non-Blow-Out, [321]
Cigars, Cane Made of Tubing Contains, [430]
Cipher Code, Simple, [224]
Circular Swing, [177]
Circular Work, Block Plane Converted for Use on, [211]
Clamp, Tennis-Racket, Opening Springs for, [393]
Clamping a Wide Board on a Bench, [248]
Clasps, Old Button, Practical Uses for, [432]
Cleaner, Comb, [70]
Cleaning a Clock with Kerosene Fumes, [324]
Cleaning a Typewriter, Kinks in, [6]
Cleaning, Pole Supports Rug for, [10]
Cleaning Silverware, [158]
Cleaning Tinware with Milk, [44]
Cleaning Type Cases with Bicycle Pump, [451]
Cleanly Pencil Sharpener, [247]
Cleat and Pulley Fastenings to Adjust Clothesline, [211]
Climbing Ring, Mystic, [22]
Clip Holds Flash-Lamp on Handlebar as Headlight, [450]
Clipping File Made of Envelopes, [125]
Clock, Cleaning with Kerosene Fumes, [324]
Clock Device to Record Time of Appointments and Other Events, [322]
Clock, Electrical Device Transmits Striking of, [14]
Clock Hand, Magic, [347]
Clock, Muffling the Ticking of a Watch or, [223]
Clocks for the Craftsman, [41]
Clocks, Oiling Tool for, [107]
Clod Rake Protects Corn in Cultivating, [362]
Closet, Rigging Economizes Space in, [433]
Closets, Treating with Cedar Oil, [208]
Clothes Basket, Neat and Economical Baby Crib Made from, [206]
Clothes Drier, Umbrella Used as, [366]
Clothesline, Cleat and Pulley Fastenings to Adjust, [211]
Clothespin-Basket Hook, [400]
Coal Hod Made from Iron Pipe, [129]
Coal Hopper, Gravity Feed, on Truck, [140]
Coaster Steering Gear Made from Cream-Freezer Drive, [161]
Coaster with Safety Brake, [273]
Coasting, Sliding Board for, [14]
Coasting Toboggan, Making a, [11]
Coat Hook, Wire, To Prevent from Turning, [235]
Cocoanut-Shell Trays, [414]
Code, Simple Cipher, [224]
Coffee Can and Broom Handle, Corn Popper Made from, [212]
Coffee Grinder Repaired with Rubber Faucet Plug, [129]
Coffee Pot Knob, Replacing Broken, [226]
Coiled Springs, Winding, [134]
Coils, Electrical, Making Cardboard Tubes for, [438]
Collar Button, Emergency, [10]
Colonial Mirror Frame, [306]
Colors, Reproducing Flowers and Leaves in, [152]
Colors, Two, Writing on Plain-Ribbon Typewriter, [168]
Comb Cleaner, [70]
Combination Bookcase and Writing Desk, [316]
Combination Indirect-Light Reflector and Mirror, [460]
Combination Laundry Tub and Dishwashing Sink, [218]
Combination Lock, Effective, Easily Made, [431]
Combination Workshop Seat, [370]
Combined Kites, How to Make:
Part I.—A Dragon Kite, [145]
Part II.—Festooned Kite, [155]
Combined Label and Cover Pad for Preserve Glasses, [4]
Come-Back Rolling Can, [298]
Comic Chest Expander for Play or Stage Use, [429]
Common Mistakes in Model Making, [394]
Compact Galvanometer, [42]
Compensated Aerial Cableway, [198]
Concealing the House Key, [70]
Concrete Water Basin for Poultry, [236]
Condenser, Small Variable, [334]
Contact, Drop-of-Water, Rain Alarm with, [161]
Containers, Pouring Liquids Quickly from, [21]
Contents of Unsealed Envelopes, Safeguarding, [363]
Controller, Simple Motor, [250]
Cooker, Lamp, [294]
Cooking in the Woods, [117]
Cooking Utensils, Aluminum, Mending, [437]
Cooler for Developing Tray, [149]
Cooling Foodstuffs with a Moist Rag and a Draft, [453]
Coop for Sitting Hens, [360]
Cord, Telephone, Rubber Band Prevents Tangling of, [367]
Cord Used as Spacer for Curtain Rings, [211]
Cork Plugs Save Wear on Drafting Board, [21]
Corks, Pad for Glass Vessels Made of, [161]
Corn, Clod Rake Protects in Cultivating, [362]
Corn Popper Made from Coffee Can and Broom Handle, [212]
Corners, Diagonal, on Disk-Record Covers, [442]
Corners, Metal Floor, [248]
Correcting, Inserting or, on Typewritten Bound Sheets, [419]
Corrugating Strips, Device for, [421]
Cottage, Tuberculosis, [385]
Couch Spring, Removing Sag from, [430]
Couches, Substitute for Rivets in, [371]
Counter, Easily Made, [401]
Countersinking a Hole Smoothly, [345]
Counterweight, Trimming Board with Foot Control, [308]
Counting Glass, Electric, for Thread Fabric, [321]
Cover, Box, Without Hinges, [46]
Cover Fastener, Key Ring Used as, [430]
Cover for Road Maps, Celluloid, [295]
Cover, Hinged Box, Made Without Hinges, [141]
Cover, Safety, for Valves on Gas Stove, [298]
Cover, Tin, Frying Pan Made of, [298]
Covering Hinge Wings, [276]
Covers’ Disk-Record, Diagonal Corners on, [442]
Covers for Jars, Removable Paraffin, [298]
Cow’s Tail, “Switchboard,” Protects Milker from, [128]
Coyotes, Trap for, [306]
Craftsman, Clocks for, [41]
Craftsman Leather Billfold, [446]
Crates and Furniture, Three-Caster Truck for Moving, [419]
Cream-Freezer Drive, Coaster Steering Gear Made from, [161]
Creaser, Cardboard, [378]
Creeper, Ice, [94]
Cross, Broken Metal, Repairing, [389]
Crossbow Magazine Gun, [458]
Cue Alley, Parlor, [341]
Cultivating, Clod Rake Protects Corn in, [362]
Cup, Trophy, Onlaying Script on, [188]
Cupboard for Kitchen Utensils, [396]
Cupboard, Summer Radiator Cover Serves as, in Winter, [297]
Curious Support for Call Bell, [362]
Curling-Iron Heater, [130]
Current, Alternating, Seeing in a Mirror, [392]
Current for Bicycle Lamp, Generator Attachment Provides, [457]
Current of Canal Raises Irrigation Water, [411]
Curtain, Raising and Lowering at a Distance, [22]
Curtain Rings, Cord Used as Spacer for, [211]
Curtains, Automatic Stop for Spring-Roller, [317]
Curved Printing Surface for Sharp Focus in Bromide Enlargements, [186]
Cushion, Emery Needle, on Sewing Machine, [197]
Cushioned Chair Made of Barrel, [440]
Cutter, Groove, for Wood, [45]
Cutting Cardboard, Dies for, [315]
Cutting Glass Bottle with Electricity, [230]
Cylinder Reversing Switch, [297]
Damp Walls, Shielding Picture from, [338]
Dancer, Electrical, [357]
Dark, Locating Droplight in, [31]
Dark-Room Light, Emergency, [94]
Dark Room, Loading Box to Dispense with, [268]
Dark-Room Use, Red Lens Hinged to Flash Light for, [6]
Dark Room, Window Frame and Table for, [320]
Dark, To Keep Tan Shoes from Turning, [377]
Darning Needle, Threading, [153]
Deception, Simple Card, [168]
Decorative Toys and Boxes Made at Home, [299]
Decoys, Duck, Mounted on Folding Frame, [188]
Delivery Chute, Gravity, Fruit-Picking Pole with, [367]
Delivery Routes, Order-Memo Device for, [443]
Denatured Alcohol to Start Gasoline Stove, [413]
Dent in Edge, Teakettle Cover Held by, [5]
Dental Floss, Sanitary Holder for Thread and, [46]
Denting, Protecting Air Pump Against, [412]
Deodorizing Lard Buckets, [340]
Depth, Homemade Fishing Float Adjustable to, [8]
Desk, Folding Wall, [292]
Desk, Improvised Typewriter, [225]
Desk Lamp, Small, Supported by Paper Weight, [424]
Desk-Light Arm Folds into Pigeonhole, [452]
Desk Slide in Top of Drawer, [356]
Desk Watch Holder, [158]
Desk, Writing, Combination Bookcase and, [316]
Detachable Chair Arm, [429]
Detachable, Making Umbrella Handle, [439]
Detachable Motor-Driven Tire Pump Made of Foot Pump, [454]
Developer, Heater Keeps at Proper Temperature, [190]
Developing Films, Tray Attachment for, [280]
Developing or Etching-Tray Rocker, [218]
Developing-Paper Printer, [375]
Developing, Photographic, Film Holder for, [452]
Developing Roll Films, New Method of, [339]
Developing Tank, Reversible Photographic, [325]
Developing Tray, Cooler for, [149]
Device, Electrical, Transmits Striking of Clock, [14]
Device for Corrugating Strips, [421]
Device Frightens Flies at Screen Door, [425]
Device Quarters and Cores Apples and Other Fruit, [453]
Diagonal Corners on Disk-Record Covers, [442]
Die in a Bottle, [276]
Dies for Cutting Cardboard, [315]
Diminishing Card Trick, [396]
Dining Table, Gas Stove for, [373]
Dinner Bell, Cannon-Shell, [399]
Dipping Water, Valve-Bottom Pail for, [344]
Direct Current Polarity, Testing with Litmus Paper, [369]
Direct View Finder for Box Camera, [353]
Disappearing-Coin Trick, [144]
Disappearing Towel, [154]
Discarded Buggy Springs for Diving Board, [429]
Dish-Draining Basin, Old Sink Installed as, [452]
Dishes, Scraper for, [337]
Dishwasher and Drier, [152]
Dishwashing Sink, Combination Laundry Tub and, [218]
Disk-Record Covers, Diagonal Corners on, [442]
Disk Talking-Machine Records Played Eccentrically, [328]
Disks, Cutting Thin Wooden, [16]
Dissolving Views, Fireside, [351]
Diving Board, Discarded Buggy Springs for, [429]
Diving Tower for the Summer Camp, [274]
Document Protector, Book and, [294]
Door Bumpers Raise Height of Chair, [358]
Door Check, Pneumatic, Made of Bicycle Pump, [169]
Door, Eccentric Drawbolt Stops Rattling of, [457]
Door Latch, Quickly Made, [123]
Door Latch, Poultry-House, Spring Roost Releases, [448]
Door or Window, Rustic, Trellis to Shade, [175]
Door, Rope Pad Prevents Slamming of, [440]
Door Spring, Angle Bracket Gives Leverage on, [460]
Doorbell Push Button on Screen Door, [150]
Double-Contact Vibrator, [140]
Double Roofs Provide Ideal Shade for Poultry Coops, [180]
Double-Swing Hinge, Plain Butts Used as, [330]
Draft, Moist Rag and, Cooling Foodstuffs with, [453]
Draft, Smoking of Lamp Overcome by Increasing, [361]
Drafting Board, Cork Plugs Save Wear on, [21]
Drawbolt, Eccentric, Stops Rattling of Door, [457]
Drawer, Desk Slide in Top of, [356]
Drawer Handles, Preventing Looseness of, [357]
Drawer, Refuse-Catching, Wood Box with, [144]
Drawer Stop, Removable, [10]
Drawing Board, Tool Sockets in Edge of, [435]
Drawings, How to Transfer, [138]
Drawings, Tracing-Cloth, Mounting on Muslin, [418]
Dressing for Fishline, [397]
Drier, Dishwasher and, [152]
Drill, Hand, Polishing with, [354]
Drinking-Glass, Handle for, [125]
Drinking-Glass Holder, [134]
Drinking-Glass Holders Easily Made, [197]
Drinking Tube, Sanitary, [69]
Driving Nails, Kink for, [193]
Driving Nails to Prevent Splitting, [373]
Driving Screws in Hard Wood, [94]
Driving Thin Metal into Wood, [247]
Drop-of-Water Contact, Rain Alarm with, [161]
Droplight, Locating in Dark, [31]
Drum, Huge, Cart for Carrying in Parade, [435]
Dry-Battery Case, Waterproof, [265]
Dry Batteries, Renewing with Sal-Ammoniac, [14]
Dry Cell and Motor, Toy Tractor Built with, [9]
Dry Cells, Testing with Light Bulb, [267]
Dry-Cleaning Mixture, [62]
Dry-Plate Kit, Inexpensive, [326]
Drying Bronze Powders, Applying and, [338]
Drying Photo Films Rapidly, [338]
Drying Rack for Shoes and Rubbers, [454]
Drying Small Fur Hides, Stretcher for, [421]
Duck Decoys Mounted on Folding Frame, [188]
Earth, Device for Packing in Transplanting, [211]
Earthen Mustard Pots Used as Acid Jars, [391]
Echo on Talking Machine, Split Needle Causes, [217]
Economy in Motorcycle Tires, [188]
Edge of Table or Window, Folding Ironing Board Clamps on Edge of, [8]
Edges, Round and Flat, Ruler with, [350]
Effective Combination Lock Easily Made, [431]
Efficiency of Electrically Heated Devices, To Determine, [390]
Egg Beater Made into Winder for Model Aeroplanes, [458]
Egg-Candling Device, Flash-Light, [458]
Eggshells as Flowerpots, [310]
Eight-Pointed Star Kite, [159]
Electric Chimes, Set of, [368]
Electric Counting Glass for Thread Fabric, [321]
Electric Fan an Aid to Heating Room, [426]
Electric Iron, Variety of Uses for, [14]
Electric Lamps, Candlesticks Wired Neatly for, [5]
Electric Light, Automatic, on Talking-Machine Cabinet, [162]
Electric-Light Fixture, Homemade Inverted, [435]
Electric Locomotive Model and Track System, Homemade:
Part I.—The Motor, [231]
Part II.—Construction of the Locomotive Truck and Cab, [237]
Part III.—Construction of the Track System, [243]
Electric Lure for Fish, [123]
Electric Motor, Quickly Made Toy, [252]
Electric Sparks, Photographing, [399]
Electric Stove, Fifty-Cent, [260]
Electric Water Heater, Carbon, [356]
Electrical Apparatus, How to Wind Wire on, [136]
Electrical Coils, Making Cardboard Tubes for, [438]
Electrical Dancer, [357]
Electrical Device Transmits Striking of Clock, [14]
Electrical Devices, Small, Water Rheostat for, [196]
Electrical Fixture Parts, Inexpensive Table Lamp Made of, [127]
Electrical Heating Apparatus, Table Sockets for, [396]
Electrically Heated Devices, To Determine Efficiency of, [390]
Electricity, Cutting Glass Bottle with, [230]
Electromagnetism, Experiment in, [156]
Ellipsograph, Homemade, [258]
Emergency Alcohol Stove, [350]
Emergency Camp Stoves Quickly Made, [449]
Emergency Dark-Room Light, [94]
Emergency Lifting Device of Rope and Lever, [334]
Emergency Oarlock of Rope, [218]
Emergency Oars, Take-Down, [395]
Emergency Tension Weight Used on Typewriter, [457]
Emery Grinder, Wood Turning on, [402]
Emery Needle Cushion on Sewing Machine, [197]
Empty Paste Pot, Utilizing, [306]
Emptying Wastebasket, False Bottom for, [344]
Enamel, Filling in Broken Places on, [178]
Enamel for Steel Fishing Rods, [349]
Enchanted Card Frame, [194]
Engine, Motorcycle, Homemade Roadster with, [437]
Enlargements, Bromide, Curved Printing Surface for Sharp Focus in, [186]
Enlargements, Bromide, Test Exposure for, [411]
Enlargements, Scale, Making with a Rubber Band, [175]
Enlargements, Washing Bromide, [336]
Enlarging Camera, Improvised Post-Card Projector and, [209]
Enlarging Cameras, Focusing Screen for, [388]
Entertainer for the Baby, Motor Driven, [4]
Envelopes, Clipping File Made of, [125]
Envelopes, Filing, Making Quickly, [417]
Envelopes, Unsealed, Safeguarding Contents of, [363]
Etching-Tray Rocker, Developing or, [218]
Events, Clock Device to Record Time of Appointments and Other, [322]
Exerciser, Pulley and Weight, Homemade in the Orient, [365]
Experiment in Electromagnetism, [156]
Experimental Lead Screw, How to Make, [31]
Experimenter, Heater for, [43]
Exposures, Test, for Bromide Enlargements, [411]
Extension, Homemade Suit Case, [360]
Eyebolts, Homemade, [376]
Fair Booth, Bazaar or, Rustic Well for, [182]
False Bottom for Emptying Waste Basket, [344]
Fan, Hand-Operated Whirling, [398]
Fan, Lighted Whirling, Used as Radiator Ornament, [260]
Fancy Buttonhook, How to Make, [371]
Fastenings to Adjust Clothesline, Cleat and Pulley, [211]
Feather as X-Ray Lens, [412]
Feeding Cards into Typewriter, [437]
Feeding Geese in a Poultry Yard, [373]
Feeding Pan for Poultry, [248]
Fence, Portable, for Baby’s Play Area, [195]
Fence Posts, Preventing Wire Mesh from Rising Between, [93]
Fencing, Portable Sectional Poultry, [329]
Ferrules for Tool Handles, [157]
Fiber Phonograph Needles, Device for Sharpening, [361]
Fifty-Cent Electric Stove, [260]
Fighting Tank, Miniature, [202]
Figures, Hollow Candy, Mold for Making, [122]
File, Clipping, Made of Envelopes, [125]
Files, Testing and Caring for, [400]
Filing Envelopes, Making Quickly, [417]
Filing System, Photographic-Negative, [434]
Filling in Broken Places on Enamel, [178]
Filling Toy Rubber Balloons with Hydrogen, [30]
Film Holder for Photographic Developing, [452]
Films, Photo, Drying Rapidly, [338]
Films, Photographic, Stenciling with, [416]
Films, Roll, New Method of Developing, [339]
Films, Tray Attachment for Developing, [280]
Finger Nail, Playing Talking-Machine Records with, [187]
Finger-Trap Trick, [377]
Finger Tug-of-War Game, Device for, [319]
Fire, Inexpensive Imitation, [226]
Fire Screen, Portable, [68]
Fireplace, Blower for, [318]
Fireside Dissolving Views, [351]
Fish Bait, Luminous-Minnow, [314]
Fish Catch, Whistle Warns of, [275]
Fish, Electric Lure for, [123]
Fish, Game, Bait Casting for, [71]
Fish, Large, Catching with a Teaspoon, [401]
Fish Lines, Waterproofing for, [94]
Fish Poles, Making Round Rods for, [40]
Fish Scaler, [154]
Fisherman’s Pail with Wire-Mesh Cage, [454]
Fishhook, Automatic, [370]
Fishhooks, Case for, Made of a Tin Can, [267]
Fishing Float, Homemade, Adjustable to Depth, [8]
Fishing Rods, Steel, Enamel for, [349]
Fishing-Tackle Outfit in a Shotgun Shell, [142]
Fishline, Dressing for, [397]
Fishline, Gourd Float for, [285]
Fixture, Homemade Inverted Electric-Light, [435]
Flag, Chain Weight Prevents Whipping of, [409]
Flag, Weighted Rope Holds Upright, [451]
Flash Lamp, Clip Holds on Handlebar as Headlight, [450]
Flash Lamps, Pocket, Improvement on, [267]
Flash Light, Automatic, Snaps Chicken-Coop Marauder, [142]
Flash Light Egg Candling Device, [458]
Flash Light, Red Lens Hinged to, for Dark-Room Use, [6]
Flash Light Used as Bedroom Night Light, [423]
Flatiron Polisher, [399]
Flatiron, Sheet-Metal Stand for, [182]
Flies at Screen Door, Device Frightens, [425]
Float, Gourd, for a Fishline, [285]
Floor Corners, Metal, [248]
Floor Trapdoor, Fuel Box in Seat Filled from, [332]
Flooring Groove, Planing Thin Sticks Held in, [218]
Floorwork, Caster Board for Scrubbing and, [293]
Flower Centerpiece, Wire-Mesh Support for, [344]
Flowerpots, Eggshells as, [310]
Flowers and Leaves, Reproducing in Colors, [152]
Flowers, Cut, Buttonhole-Bouquet Holder to Keep Fresh, [149]
Flowers, Potted, Turntable Stand for, [308]
Flowers, Window-Box, Watering, [144]
Flue Stopper, Safety, Made of Tin Pail, [328]
Fluorescent Screen, How to Make, [92]
Fly-Screen Frame, Repairing a Broken, [356]
Focus, Sharp, in Bromide Enlargements, Curved Printing Surface for, [186]
Focusing Screen for Enlarging Cameras, [388]
Folding Boat, Portable, [135]
Folding Card Table Handy for Invalid in Bed, [308]
Folding Ground Seat with Back Rest, [190]
Folding Ice Sled, [44]
Folding Ironing Board Clamps on Edge of Table or Window, [8]
Folding Table with Split-Bamboo Tray for Top, [424]
Folding Wall Desk, [292]
Foodstuffs, Cooling with a Moist Rag and a Draft, [453]
Foot, Barnyard Gate Operated with, [208]
Foot Control and Counterweight, Trimming Board with, [308]
Foot Pump, Detachable Motor-Driven Tire Pump Made of, [454]
Foot Rests, Small Stools and, Variety of, [261]
Footstool, [254]
Footstool, Woven-Reed, [255]
Forceps for Weeding Garden, [338]
Form, Book, Keeping Magazine in, [378]
Fort Built of Snow Blocks Made in Box Form, [409]
Fortune Telling, Magic-Paper, [393]
Fountain Pen, Ordinary Pen Converted into, [362]
Fountain-Pen Wrench, [273]
Frame, Broken Fly-Screen, Repairing, [356]
Frame, Colonial Mirror, [306]
Frame, Folding, Duck Decoys Mounted on, [188]
Frame, Window, and Table for Dark Room, [320]
Frames, Novel Homemade Picture, [124]
Front-Opening Hatbox, [266]
Fruit-Picking Pole with Gravity Delivery Chute, [367]
Fruit, Tin Can on Rod for Picking, [54]
Frying Pan Made of Tin Cover, [298]
Fuel Box in Seat Filled from Floor Trapdoor, [332]
Furniture, Crates and, Three-Caster Truck for Moving, [419]
Furniture, Woven Reed, [261], [269]
Fuse Socket, Inkwell Base Made from, [344]
Fuses, Homemade, for Battery Circuits, [151]
Galvanometer, Compact, [42]
Game, Device for Finger Tug-of-War, [319]
Game Fish, Bait Casting for, [71]
Game, Indian Snake, [388]
Game of Skill, Marble-under-Bridge, [298]
Garden, Forceps for Weeding, [338]
Garden Hose, Practical Bracket for, [417]
Garden Plants, Starting, [373]
Garden Plow Made of Pick-Up Material, [227]
Garden Workers, Movable Sunshade and Seat for, [148]
Gas, Blowpipe for, [336]
Gas-Fixture Chains, Sleeve Aids in Distinguishing, [247]
Gas Furnace, Small, [346]
Gas Heater, Pie-Plate, [423]
Gas-Hose Bracket for Ironing or Shop Use, [366]
Gas Mantles Made at Home, [274]
Gas Piping, Tire Pump Made of, [419]
Gas Stove for the Dining Table, [373]
Gas-Stove Lighter, [416]
Gas-Stove Oven, Substitute for, [45]
Gas Stove, Safety Cover for Valves on, [298]
Gasoline Stove, Denatured Alcohol to Start, [413]
Gasoline Tank on Launch, Lock for, [85]
Gate, Barnyard, Operated with the Foot, [208]
Gate on Door, Locking Device for Latch Hook on, [127]
Gate, Porch, Folds into Hollow Pillar, [193]
Gate Sign with Metal Letters, Homemade, [451]
Gauge for Laying Out Model Gear Wheels, [384]
Gauge for Woodwork, [252]
Gear Wheels, Model, Gauge for Laying Out, [384]
Geese, Feeding in a Poultry Yard, [373]
Generator Attachment Provides Current for Bicycle Lamp, [457]
Giant, Showing Strength of, [108]
Glass-and-Hat Trick, [342]
Glass Bottle as a Candle Lamp, [291]
Glass Bottle, Cutting with Electricity, [230]
Glass, Electric Counting, for Thread Fabric, [321]
Glass, Ground, in Camera, Substitute for, [236]
Glass, Mystery Sounding, [157]
Glass, Transferring Pictures to, [443]
Glass Vessels, Pad for, Made of Corks, [161]
Glider, Toy Paper, Carefully Designed, [324]
Globes, Burned-Out Incandescent, Repairing, [236]
Glossy, Making Photographic Prints, [76]
Glossy Surfaces in Photography, Putty Deadens, [360]
Gloves, Rubber, How to Repair, [286]
Gluing Press, Inexpensive, [313]
Golf Tee Made of a Shotgun Shell, [430]
Good Putty, How to Make, [396]
Gourd Float for a Fishline, [285]
Grass and Weeds, To Keep Out of Tennis Court, [149]
Gravity Delivery Chute, Fruit-Picking Pole with, [367]
Gravity-Feed Coal Hopper on Truck, [140]
Green and Red Lights, Signal Telegraph with, [176]
Grinding Writing and Lettering Pens, [169]
Grip, Bicycle-Handle, on Rake Handle, [372]
Grip, Points of, Scale on Vaulting Pole Indicates, [411]
Grips, Rubber Handlebar, Reinforcing the Ends of, [452]
Groove Cutter for Wood, [45]
Grotto for an Aquarium, Cement, [235]
Ground Seat, Folding, with Back Rest, [190]
Guard Saves Wear on Vest, [413]
Guarding a Camp Chest Against Theft, [362]
Guards, Hand, for Motorcyclists, [372]
Guide for Photo and Paper Trimmer, Homemade, [366]
Guide String, Seed-Planting, Reel for Use with, [422]
Guides for Scenic Painting, Enlarged Lantern Pictures as, [419]
Gun, Choke and Pattern of, [63]
Gun, Crossbow Magazine, [458]
Guns, Equipment and Books, Sportsman’s Cabinet for, [434]
Gymnasium, Protecting Lights in, [337]
Hacksaw-Blade, Old, Handy Paring Knife Made from, [207]
Hall Seat with Storage Compartment, [312]
Hammock Sleeping Tent, [242]
Hammock Support, Springy, Made of Boughs, [369]
Hammocks, How to Make:
Part I.—A Twine Hammock, [277]
Part II.—A Netted Hammock, [282]
Hand Cases, Carrying Strap and Lock for, [328]
Hand Drill, Polishing with, [354]
Hand-Drill Press, Oiler for, [276]
Hand Guards for Motorcyclists, [372]
Hand-Operated Motorboat Whistle, [178]
Hand-Operated Whirling Fan, [398]
Handle for a Drinking Glass, [125]
Handle, Rake, Bicycle-Handle Grip on, [372]
Handle, Second, on Hoe or Rake Saves Stooping, [160]
Handle, Umbrella, Making Detachable, [439]
Handlebar, Clip Holds Flash Lamp on as Headlight, [450]
Handlebar Grips, Rubber, Reinforcing the Ends of, [452]
Handles, Tool, Ferrules for, [157]
Hands, Preventing Putty Sticking to, [314]
Hands, To Remove Putty from, [387]
Handy Tray for Pencils and Penholders, [430]
Hanger, Improvised Trousers, in Train Berth, [367]
Hanger, Trouser, [350]
Hanging a Picture, Small Hook for, [276]
Hanging Heavy Rug on Line for Beating, [389]
Hanging Ladder for a Hatchway, [349]
Hard Wood, Driving Screws in, [94]
Hat, Marker for, [123]
Hat, Old Straw, Bird House Made of, [181]
Hatbox, Front-Opening, [266]
Hatchway, Hanging Ladder for, [349]
Hawaiian Ukulele. Homemade, [358]
Headlight, Clip Holds Flash Lamp on Handlebar as, [450]
Headrest for Chair, Removable, [432]
Headrest for Porch Swing, [367]
Heat, Working Wood by Application of, [150]
Heater, Curling-Iron, [130]
Heater for the Experimenter, [43]
Heater in Chick Brooding House, Shield for, [295]
Heater Keeps Developer at Proper Temperature, [190]
Heating Apparatus, Electrical, Table Sockets for, [396]
Heating Room, Electric Fan Aid to, [426]
Heavy Objects, Moving with a Broom, [445]
Height of Chair, Door Bumpers Raise, [358]
Hens, Coop for Sitting, [360]
Hickory Sapling, Swing Made of, [335]
Hides, Small Fur, Stretcher for Drying, [421]
High Chair, [318]
High Stool, How to Make, [378]
Hikers, Kitchen for, [132]
Hinge, Double-Swing, Plain Butts Used as, [330]
Hinge Lock for Horizontal Sliding Windows, [372]
Hinge Wings, Covering, [276]
Hinged Box Cover Made Without Hinges, [141]
Hinged Window Box, [413]
Hinges, Box Cover Without, [46]
Hinges, Hinged Box Cover Made Without, [141]
Hoe or Rake, Second Handle on, Saves Stooping, [160]
Holder, Drinking-Glass, [134]
Holder for Household Ice Pick, [335]
Holder, Knee-Rest, for Milking Pail, [434]
Holder, Knife, Fork, and Spoon, [40]
Holder, Playing-Card, [414]
Holder, Revolving Card or Ticket, [369]
Holder, Sanitary, for Thread and Dental Floss, [46]
Holder, Shaving-Brush, [76]
Holders, Drinking-Glass, Easily Made, [197]
Hole, Countersinking Smoothly, [345]
Hollow Candy Figures, Mold for Making, [122]
Hollow Pillar, Porch Gate Folds into, [193]
Home, Decorative Toys and Boxes Made at, [299]
Home, Gas Mantles Made at, [274]
Home Portraiture, Portable Skylight for, [330]
Home Use, Convenient Type of Mail Box for, [211]
Home Workbench, Two Simple Vises for, [197]
Hook, Clothespin-Basket, [400]
Hook, Small, for Hanging a Picture, [276]
Hooks, Overhead, Device for Suspending Parcels from, [162]
Hoop, Child’s Bell-Ringing, [449]
Horizontal Sliding Windows, Hinge Lock for, [372]
Horizontal Sundial Plate, Laying Out, [436]
Horn, Auto, for Child’s Play Vehicle, [16]
Horn Match Holder, Ornamental, [247]
Horse-Drawn Sod Cutter, [229]
Horse, Toy, That Walks, [363]
Horseshoe Nail, String-Cutting Ring Made of, [5]
Hot-Air Register, Catch-All Screen Inside, [432]
Hot Dishes, Attractive Table Stands for, [210]
Hourglass Sewing Basket, [137]
House, Chick Brooding, Shield for Heater in, [295]
House Key, Concealing, [70]
House, Pigeon, [403]
Houseboat, How to Make, [143]
Hunter’s Knife, Locking Sheath for, [428]
Hydraulic Turbine, Small, [427]
Hydrogen, Filling Toy Rubber Balloons with, [30]
Ice Creeper, [94]
Ice Pick, Household, Holder for, [335]
Ice Sled, Folding, [44]
Ice Yacht, Wishbone-Mast, [17]
Illuminated Indicating Target Box, [180]
Illuminating-Gas Plant, Miniature, [379]
Illumination, Reflected-Light, with Homemade Arrangement, [128]
Imitation-Celluloid Scales and Name Plates, [353]
Imitation Fire, Inexpensive, [226]
Impressions of Leaves, Making, [100]
Improvement on Pocket Flash Lamps, [267]
Improvised Trousers Hanger in Train Berth, [367]
Improvised Typewriter Desk, [225]
Incandescent Globes, Repairing Burned-Out, [236]
Incubator Chicks, Stepmother for, [130]
Index Card, Removal Marker for, [372]
Index for Popular Mechanics Magazine on Bookshelf, [308]
Index Trays, Novel Covered Box for, [414]
Indian Snake Game, [388]
Indicating Target Box, Illuminated, [180]
Indicator, Simple Polarity, [422]
Indicator, Spool-and-Pencil, Telegraph Recorder with, [171]
Indirect-Light Reflector and Mirror, Combination, [460]
Inexpensive Dry-Plate Kit, [326]
Inexpensive Gluing Press, [313]
Inexpensive Imitation Fire, [226]
Inexpensive Materials, Homemade Relay of, [332]
Inkstand Made of Sheet of Paper, [136]
Inkwell Base Made from Fuse Socket, [344]
Inner Tubes, Old, Rubber Bands Made from, [268]
Insect Bites, Ammonia-Carrying Case for, [154]
Inserting or Correcting on Typewritten Bound Sheets, [419]
Instrument Bases, How to Polish, [30]
Instruments, Wood-Wind, Repairing, [174]
Invalid in Bed, Folding Card Table Handy for, [308]
Inverted Electric-Light Fixture, Homemade, [435]
Iron, Electric, Variety of Uses for, [14]
Iron Pipe, Coal Hod Made from, [129]
Ironing Board, Folding, Clamps on Edge of Table or Window, [8]
Ironing Board for Use on a Table, [315]
Ironing-Board Wall Fastening, [318]
Ironing or Shop Use, Gas-Hose Bracket for, [366]
Irrigation Water, Current of Canal Raises, [411]
Jack, Changing Motor-Car Tire Without, [210]
Jardinière Made of Metal-Lamp Body, [226]
Jars, Acid, Earthen Mustard Pots Used as, [391]
Jars, Removable Paraffin Covers for, [298]
Jig-Saw Table for Vise, [93]
Jobs, Odd, Practical Memorandum for, [322]
Joining Broken Liquid Column in Thermometer, [366]
Kegs, Bird House Made of, [134]
Kerosene Fumes, Cleaning a Clock with, [324]
Key, Combination, Wooden Lock with, [13]
Key, House, Concealing, [70]
Key Ring Used as a Cover Fastener, [430]
Keys, Typewriter Space and Shift, Pedals for Increase Speed, [364]
Kink, Handy, in Addressing Mailing Tubes, [458]
Kinks for the Talking Machine, [179]
Kinks in Washing Photographic Negatives and Prints, [181]
Kinks on the Care of Umbrellas, [422]
Kinks, Three Bathroom, [402]
Kit, Inexpensive Dry-Plate, [326]
Kit, Soldier’s or Traveler’s, for Sundries and Toilet Articles, [453]
Kitchen for Hikers, [132]
Kitchen, Slicing Board for Camp or, [247]
Kitchen Utensils, Cupboard for, [396]
Kitchenette, Sideboard Converted into, [192]
Kite, Camera for Taking Pictures from, [52]
Kite, Eight-Pointed Star, [159]
Kite, Releasing Parachute from, [354]
Kites, Combined, How to Make:
Part I.—A Dragon Kite, [145]
Part II.—A Festooned Kite, [155]
Knee-Rest Holder for Milking Pail, [434]
Knife, Fork, and Spoon Holder, [40]
Knife, Hunter’s, Locking Sheath for, [428]
Knife, Pruning and Brush-Cutting, [449]
Knife, to Trim Magazines for Binding, [286]
Knob, Broken Coffee Pot, Replacing, [226]
Knock-Down Tennis-Court Backstop, [189]
Knot, Sheepshank, Used to Recover Rope, [168]
Ladder for a Hatchway, Hanging, [349]
Lamp and Mirror, Shaving, for Camp, [162]
Lamp, Candle, Glass Bottle as, [291]
Lamp Cooker, [294]
Lamp, Homemade Trouble, [365]
Lamp, Piano or Reading, [290]
Lamp, Small Desk, Supported by Paper Weight, [424]
Lamp, Smoking of, Overcome by Increasing Draft, [361]
Lamp Wicks Cheaply Made, [236]
Lamps, Pocket Flash, Improvement on, [267]
Lantern, Camp, Made of a Tin Can, [406]
Lantern Pictures, Enlarged, as Guides for Scenic Painting, [419]
Lard Buckets, Deodorizing, [340]
Latch Hook on Gate or Door, Locking Device for, [127]
Latch, Quickly Made Door, [123]
Lathe, Making Small Ratchet Wheels in, [266]
Launch, Lock for Gasoline Tank on, [85]
Laundry Tub and Dishwashing Sink, Combination, [218]
Lawn Benches Made from Old Bedsteads, [174]
Lawn Mower, How to Use, [171]
Lawn Mower Sharpened Efficiently with Simple Rigging, [448]
Lawn Seats Built on Tree Stumps, [141]
Lawns, Seeding Bare Spots on, [167]
Laying Out a Horizontal Sundial Plate, [436]
Laying Out Model Gear Wheels, Gauge for, [384]
Lead Pencil, Measuring Resistance with, [249]
Lead Screw, Experimental, How to Make, [31]
Lead Soldiers and Similar Small Castings, Making, [455]
Leaks in Pipes, Repairing, [212]
Leather and Silk Bookmark, [218]
Leather Billfold, Craftsman, [446]
Leather Tire Patch, [400]
Leaves, Flowers and, Reproducing: in Colors, [152]
Leaves, Making Impressions of, [100]
Leaves, Preserving in Specimen Book, [10]
Left Hand, Spoon Attachment to Prevent Child from Using, [317]
Leggings, Birch-Bark, Made in the Woods, [421]
Lens, Feather as X-Ray, [412]
Lens, Photo-Copying, Increases Angle of Camera, [160]
Lettering Pen, Split-Bamboo, [142]
Lettering Photo Prints Without Marking Negative, [440]
Letters, Metal, Homemade Gate Sign with, [451]
Level, Homemade, [384]
Lever, Tightening, for Tennis Nets, [158]
Leverage on Door Spring, Angle Bracket Gives, [460]
Life Buoy, Homemade, [126]
Lifting Device of Rope and Lever, Emergency, [334]
Light Bulb, Testing Dry Cells with, [267]
Light, Emergency Dark-Room, [94]
Light, Flash, Used as Bedroom Night Light, [423]
Light, Homemade Arc, [285]
Light, Porch, and Plant Shelf, Bark-Covered, [432]
Light Reflectors, White Blotting Paper Improves, [196]
Lighted Lights in Basement, Signal for, [314]
Lighted Whirling Fan Used as Radiator Ornament, [260]
Lighter, Gas-Stove, [416]
Lighter, Non-Blow-Out Cigar and Pipe, [321]
Lighting a Candle Without Touching the Wick, [334]
Lighting a Match in the Wind, [382]
Lightning Switch for Wireless Aerials, [415]
Lights in Basement, Signal for Lighted, [314]
Lights in a Gymnasium, Protecting, [337]
Line, Hanging Heavy Rug on, for Beating, [389]
Liner, Homemade Section, [280]
Lines, Fish, Waterproofing for, [94]
Linoleum Panels for Homemade Chest, [425]
Liquid Column in Thermometer, Joining Broken, [366]
Liquid-Filled Tray Carried Safely, [439]
Liquids, Pouring Quickly from Containers, [21]
Litmus Paper, Testing Direct Current Polarity with, [369]
Live Poultry Weighed Handily in Funnel Scale, [442]
Loading Box to Dispense with Dark Room, [268]
Locating Droplight in Dark, [31]
Lock Box, Automatic, for Milk Bottles, [428]
Lock, Carrying Strap and, for Hand Cases, [328]
Lock, Chest, Making More Secure, [94]
Lock, Double, for Shed, [157]
Lock, Effective Combination, Easily Made, [431]
Lock for Gasoline Tank on a Launch, [85]
Lock, Hinge, for Horizontal Sliding Windows, [372]
Lock, Wooden, with Combination Key, [13]
Locker, Boy’s Athletic-Equipment, [439]
Locking Device for Latch Hook on Gate or Door, [127]
Locking Device, Simple Concealed, for Cases of Drawers, [4]
Locking Sheath for Hunter’s Knife, [428]
Locking Window Sash, [62]
Locomotive Model and Track System, Homemade Electric:
Part I.—The Motor, [231]
Part II.—Construction of the Locomotive Truck and Cab, [237]
Part III.—Construction of the Track System, [243]
Log Raft, Woodsman’s, [185]
Looseness of Drawer Handles, Preventing, [357]
Luminous-Minnow Fish Bait, [314]
Lumps, Mixing Stick That Breaks Up, [54]
Lunch Table, Revolving Outdoor, [363]
Lure for Fish, Electric, [123]
Machine Gun, Toy, That Fires Wooden Bullets, [408]
Magic Cabinet, [345]
Magic Candles Explained, [355]
Magic Clock Hand, [347]
Magic of Numbers, [222]
Machine Bases, Small, Sandpapering Square Edges on, [418]
Machine Screws, Brass, with Nuts, [68]
Machine, Simple, for Transmitting Writing, [442]
Magazine on Bookshelf, Popular Mechanics, Index for, [308]
Magazines, Keeping in Book Form, [378]
Magazines, Knife to Trim, for Binding, [286]
Magazines, Temporary Binder for, [370]
Magazines, Use for Old, [399]
Magic-Paper Fortune Telling, [393]
Magically Naming a Written Card, [61]
Magnesium Printer, Homemade, [226]
Mail Box, Bell-Ringing, [422]
Mail Box for Home Use, Convenient Type of, [211]
Mailing, Proper Way to Wrap Papers for, [44]
Mailing Tubes, Handy Kink in Addressing, [458]
Mallet Made from Wagon-Wheel Felly and Spoke, [157]
Mantles, Gas, Made at Home, [274]
Maps, Road, Celluloid Cover for, [295]
Marble-Under-Bridge Game of Skill, [298]
Mark, Tossing Card at, Accurately, [69]
Marker for a Hat, [123]
Marker for Card Index, Removal, [372]
Marking Negative, Lettering Photo Prints Without, [440]
Masks, Novel, for Printing Pictures, [182]
Match-Box Trick, [230]
Match Holder, Ornamental Horn, [247]
Match, Lighting in the Wind, [382]
Match Safe of Miniature Cannon Shell, [335]
Matches, Waterproofing, [230]
Measuring Resistance with a Lead Pencil, [249]
Mechanic, Steam-Propelled Motorcycle Made by, [191]
Mechanical Toy Alligator of Wood, [460]
Mechanical Toy Pigeon Made of Wood, [433]
Memorandum for Odd Jobs, Practical, [322]
Memorandum List for Camping and Outing Trips, [365]
Mending Aluminum Cooking Utensils, [437]
Merry-Go-Round, Twisting Thriller, [179]
Metal Band Stiffens Brush, [367]
Metal Base, Weighting, [217]
Metal Bird Basin, Simple, [432]
Metal-Bound Chests, Miniature, [287]
Metal Cross, Repairing Broken, [389]
Metal Floor Corners, [248]
Metal-Lamp Body, Jardinière Made of, [226]
Metal Letters, Homemade Gate Sign with, [451]
Metal, Thin, Driving into Wood, [247]
Method of Developing Roll Films, New, [339]
Milk Bottles, Automatic Lock Box for, [428]
Milk, Cleaning Tinware with, [44]
Milk Strainer, Old, Pivoted Searchlight Made of, [139]
Milker, “Switchboard” Protects from Cow’s Tail, [128]
Milking Pail, Knee-Rest Holder for, [434]
Miniature Cannon Shell, Match Safe of, [335]
Miniature Cement Plant, [383]
Miniature Fighting Tank, [202]
Miniature Illuminating-Gas Plant, [379]
Miniature Metal-Bound Chests, [287]
Miniature Push Buttons, [251]
Minnows for Bait, Catching, [168]
Mirror, Combination Indirect-Light Reflector and, [460]
Mirror Frame, Colonial, [306]
Mirror, Seeing an Alternating Current in, [392]
Mirror, Shaving Lamp and, for Camp, [162]
Mission Candlestick, [60]
Mission Center Table, Octagonal, [7]
Mistakes in Model Making, Common, [394]
Miter Box, Bench Support for, [336]
Miter Box, Placing on the Workbench, [294]
Mixing Paste, [241]
Mixing Stick That Breaks up Lumps, [54]
Mixture, Dry-Cleaning, [62]
Model Aeroplane, Egg Beater Made into Winder for, [459]
Model Gear Wheels, Gauge for Laying Out, [384]
Model, Homemade Electric Locomotive and Track System:
Part I.—The Motor, [231]
Part II.—Construction of the Locomotive Truck and Cab, [237]
Part III.—Construction of the Track System, [243]
Model Making, Common Mistakes in, [394]
Model Old-Four Monoplane, How to Make, [163]
Model Paper Monoplane That Can be Steered, [170]
Model Paddle-Wheel Boats, [443]
Model Steam Tractor Made by Boy, [410]
Moist Rag and Draft, Cooling Foodstuffs with, [453]
Mold for Making Hollow Candy Figures, [122]
Monoplane, Model Old-Four, How to Make, [163]
Monoplane, Model Paper, That Can be Stored, [170]
Morris Chair with Newspaper Rack and Smoker’s Trays, [309]
Mosquitoes, Camp Shelter Affords Protection from, [181]
Moth-Ball Puzzle as Window-Advertising Novelty, [444]
Motor Car, Boys’ Homemade, [1]
Motor Controller, Simple, [250]
Motor-Driven Entertainer for the Baby, [4]
Motor-Driven Tire Pump, Detachable, Made of Foot Pump, [454]
Motor, Fitting into Paddling Canoe, [89]
Motor, Quickly Made Toy Electric, [252]
Motor, Simple Self-Contained, [116]
Motor, Toy Tractor Built with Dry Cell and, [9]
Motorboat Whistle, Hand-Operated, [178]
Motorcycle, Bicycle Fitted Up to Resemble, [441]
Motorcycle Engine, Homemade Roadster with, [437]
Motorcycle or Bicycle, Rear Seat for, [446]
Motorcycle Stand, Stopping Rattle in, [414]
Motorcycle, Steam-Propelled, Made by Mechanic, [191]
Motorcycle Tires, Economy in, [188]
Motorcyclist, Hand Guards for, [372]
Mounting Tracing-Cloth Drawings on Muslin, [418]
Moving Crates and Furniture, Three-Caster Truck for, [419]
Moving Heavy Objects with a Broom, [445]
Moving Train, Writing on, [228]
Mucilage Brush and Container Made of a Test Tube, [335]
Muffin-Pan Trays, Nail Cabinet with, [230]
Muffling the Ticking of a Watch or Clock, [223]
Music, Sheet, Tabs for Turning Quickly, [368]
Music Stand, Book Rest for, [328]
Muslin, Mounting Tracing-Cloth Drawings on, [418]
Mustard Pots, Earthen, Used as Acid Jars, [391]
Mysterious Watch, [70]
Mystery Sounding Glass, [157]
Mystic Climbing Ring, [22]
Nail Cabinet with Muffin-Pan Trays, [230]
Nail Carrier Made of Cans, [414]
Nails, Driving to Prevent Splitting, [373]
Nails, Kink for Driving, [193]
Nails, Plier Drives in Backing Picture Frame, [450]
Name Plates, Imitation-Celluloid Scales and, [353]
Naming a Written Card, Magically, [61]
Needle Cushion, Emery, on Sewing Machine, [197]
Needle, Darning, Threading, [153]
Needle, Split, Causes Echo on Talking Machine, [217]
Needle Threader for Sewing Machine, [134]
Needles, Fiber Phonograph, Device for Sharpening, [361]
Needles, Uses for Worn Talking-Machine, [329]
Negative Filing System, Phonographic, [434]
Negative, Lettering Photo Prints Without Marking, [440]
Negatives and Prints, Photographic, Kinks in Washing, [181]
Negatives, Retouching, for Printing, [397]
Nets, Tennis, Tightening Lever for, [158]
Netted Hammock, How to Make, [282]
Netting, Poultry Fence Construction Economical of, [409]
New Method of Developing Roll Films, [339]
Newspaper Rack and Smokers’ Trays, Morris Chair with, [309]
Newspaper Stand, Penny-in-the-Slot, [364]
Night Light, Bedroom, Flash Light Used as, [423]
Non-Blow-Out Cigar and Pipe Lighter, [321]
Nontangling Pasture Stake, [136]
Novel Covered Box for Index Trays, [414]
Novel Masks for Printing Pictures, [182]
Novel Uses for Safety Pins, [445]
Novelty, Window-Advertising, Moth-Ball Puzzle as, [444]
Nozzle, Spray, Made of Acetylene Burner, [248]
Numbers, Magic of, [222]
Nutcracker, Backwoodsman’s, [450]
Nuts, Brass Machine Screws with, [68]
Oarlock of Rope, Emergency, [218]
Oars Flattened to Make Rowing Easier, [319]
Oars, Take-Down Emergency, [395]
Octagonal Mission Center Table, [7]
Odd Jobs, Practical Memorandum for, [322]
Oilcan, Old, Pressure Spray Made of, [212]
Oilcan Stopper, [349]
Oiler for a Hand-Drill Press, [276]
Oiling Sewing Machine, Prevents Soiling Goods After, [402]
Oiling Tool for Clocks, [107]
Old Toothbrushes, Uses for, [428]
One-Piece Bracelet Cut from Calling Card, [319]
One-Runner Sled, [45]
Onlaying Script on a Trophy Cup, [188]
Opening, Rectangular, to Use Over Camera View Finder, [125]
Opening Screw, Watch Bezel, Rubber Pads for, [448]
Opening Springs for a Tennis-Racket Clamp, [393]
Order-Memo Device for Delivery Routes, [443]
Orient, Pulley and Weight Exerciser Homemade in, [365]
Ornament, Radiator, Lighted Whirling Fan Used as, [260]
Ornamental Horn Match Holder, [247]
Ornamental Pencil and Pincushion Holder, [286]
Ornamenting an Old Tree Stump, [123]
Outdoor Lunch Table, Revolving, [363]
Outing Trips, Camping and Memorandum List for, [365]
Outlet, Water-Jacket, Bilge Water Siphoned Through, [413]
Oven, Gas-Stove, Substitute for, [45]
Pad, Combined Label and Cover, for Preserve Glasses, [4]
Pad for Glass Vessels Made of Corks, [161]
Pad, Record-Cleaning, Fixed to Talking Machine, [444]
Paddle, Broken Canoe, Repairing, [158]
Paddle, Knack of Handling, [102]
Paddle-Wheel Boats, Model, [443]
Paddling Canoe, Fitting Motor into, [89]
Paddling Canoe, Open, Sailing, [86]
Paddling Your Own Canoe:
Part I.—Kinds of Canoes, [95]
Part II.—Knack of Handling Paddle, [102]
Pail, Fisherman’s, with Wire-Mesh Cage, [454]
Pail, Milking, Knee-Rest Holder for, [434]
Pail, Tin, Safety Flue Stopper Made of, [328]
Pail, Vacuum, How to Make, [315]
Pail, Valve-Bottom, for Dipping Water, [344]
Painter’s Knife, Scoop on, Catches Scrapings, [365]
Painting, Scenic, Enlarged, Lantern Pictures as Guides for, [419]
Pan, Feeding, for Poultry, [248]
Pan, Frying, Made of Tin Cover, [298]
Panels, Linoleum, for Homemade Chest, [425]
Paper Glider, Toy, Carefully Designed, [324]
Paper, Inkstand Made of Sheet of, [136]
Paper Muslin, Portable Tent Made from an Umbrella and, [364]
Paper, Straightening Sheets of, [456]
Paper Trimmer, Photo and, Homemade Guide for, [366]
Paper Warships, Toy, [293]
Paper Weight, Small Desk Lamp Supported by, [424]
Paper, Wire Clips Weight in Typewriter, [409]
Papers, Proper Way to Wrap for Mailing, [44]
Parachute, Releasing from a Kite, [354]
Parade, Cart for Carrying Huge Drum in, [435]
Paraffin Covers for Jars, Removable, [298]
Parcel Carrier, Handy, with Caster Supports, [6]
Parcel-Delivery Bicycle, Sidecar for, [407]
Parcels, Device for Suspending from Overhead Hooks, [162]
Paring Knife, Handy, Made from Old Hacksaw Blade, [207]
Parlor Cue Alley, [341]
Parlor Table, [151]
Paste, Mixing, [241]
Paste Pot, Utilizing Empty, [306]
Paste, Squeezing from Tubes, [391]
Paste Tubes, Wall Pocket for, [16]
Pasteboard Box, Shortening, [337]
Pasture Stake, Nontangling, [136]
Patch, Leather Tire, [400]
Patching Canvas Bottom of a Canoe, [430]
Pattern of Gun, Choke and, [63]
Patterns, Castings Without, [374]
Pedals for Typewriter Space and Shift Keys Increase Speed, [364]
Pen, Ordinary, Converted into Fountain Pen, [362]
Pen, Revolving-Wheel Ruling, [134]
Pen, Split-Bamboo Lettering, [142]
Pencil and Clip, Improvised Penholder Made with, [457]
Pencil and Pincushion Holder, Ornamental, [286]
Pencil Holder for Workbench, [236]
Pencil, Lead, Measuring Resistance with, [249]
Pencil Sharpener, Cleanly, [247]
Pencil Sharpener Made of Wafer Razor Blade, [361]
Pencils and Penholders, Handy Tray for, [430]
Pencils, Roll-Film Spools Useful in Economizing, [170]
Penholder, Improvised, Made with Pencil and Clip, [457]
Penholders, Pencils and, Handy Tray for, [430]
Penny-in-the-Slot Newspaper Stand, [364]
Pens, Grinding Writing and Lettering, [169]
Periscope Which a Boy Can Make, Useful, [305]
Perpetual Calendar, [43]
Perpetual-Motion Puzzle, [138]
Perpetual Whirligig, [400]
Phonograph Needles, Fiber, Device for Sharpening, [361]
Photo and Paper Trimmer, Homemade Guide for, [366]
Photo-Copying Lens Increases Angle of Camera, [160]
Photo Films, Drying, Rapidly, [338]
Photo-Print Washing Device, Automatic, [329]
Photo Prints, Lettering Without Marking Negative, [440]
Photographic Developing, Film Holder for, [452]
Photographic Developing Tank, Reversible, [325]
Photographic Films, Stenciling with, [416]
Photographic-Negative Filing System, [434]
Photographic Negatives and Prints, Kinks in Washing, [181]
Photographic-Print Washing Machine, [327]
Photographic Printing Machine, [333]
Photographic Prints, Making Glossy, [76]
Photographic Trays, Making, [406]
Photographic Workroom, Daylight, Red Windows in, [169]
Photographing Electric Sparks, [399]
Photographs in Falling Snow, Taking, [140]
Photography, Bird, Camera for, [426]
Photography, Putty Deadens Glossy Surface in, [360]
Piano or Reading Lamp, [290]
Pick-Up Material, Garden Plow Made of, [227]
Picture Frame, Plier Drives Nails in Backing, [450]
Picture Frame, Sailors’ Sweetheart, [268]
Picture Frames, Novel Homemade, [124]
Picture, Small Hook for Hanging, [276]
Pictures, Camera for Taking, from Kite, [52]
Pictures, Enlarged Lantern, as Guides for Scenic Painting, [419]
Pictures, Novel Masks for Printing, [182]
Pictures, Shielding from Damp Walls, [338]
Pictures, Transferring to Glass, [443]
Pie-Plate Gas Heater, [423]
Pigeon House, [403]
Pigeon, Mechanical Toy, Made of Wood, [433]
Pigeonhole, Desk-Light Arm Folds into, [452]
Pile Driver, Small Working, [215]
Pillar, Hollow, Porch Gate Folds into, [193]
Pin Setter for Home Tenpins, [61]
Pincushion Holder, Ornamental Pencil and, [286]
Pincushion, Wire-Screen, [456]
Pipe Lighter, Non-Blow-Out Cigar and, [321]
Pipe Straps, Bottle Carrier Made of, [217]
Pipe, Water, Broken Spade Handle Repaired with, [242]
Pipes, Child’s Swing Built of, in Narrow Space, [358]
Pipes, Repairing Leaks in, [212]
Pitch or Wax, Frayed Shoe Laces Repaired with, [129]
Plane, Block, Converted for Use on Circular Work, [211]
Planing Thin Sticks Held in Flooring Groove, [218]
Plans in a Shop, Protecting, [376]
Plant, Miniature Cement, [383]
Plant, Miniature Illuminating-Gas, [379]
Plant Shelf, Bark-Covered Porch Light and, [432]
Plants, Garden, Starting, [373]
Plaster of Paris to Set Screws into Wall, [266]
Plate Holder, Using as Printing Frame, [408]
Play Area, Baby’s, Portable Fence for, [195]
Play Auto, Barrel Staves as Springs for, [311]
Play or Stage Use, Comic Chest Expander for, [429]
Playground Swings, Bearing for, [276]
Playing-Card Holder, [414]
Playing Talking-Machine Records with the Finger Nail, [187]
Plier Drives Nails in Backing Picture Frame, [450]
Plow, Garden, Made of Pick-Up Material, [227]
Pneumatic Door Check Made of Bicycle Pump, [169]
Pocket, Flash Lamps, Improvement on, [267]
Pocket, Wall, for Paste Tubes, [16]
Pointer, Timing, on Watch Crystal, [364]
Points of Grip, Scale on Vaulting Pole Indicates, [411]
Polarity, Direct Current, Testing with Litmus Paper, [369]
Polarity Indicator, Simple, [422]
Pole, Fruit-Picking, with Gravity Delivery Chute, [367]
Pole Supports Rug for Cleaning, [10]
Polish Instrument Bases, How to, [30]
Polisher, Flatiron, [399]
Polishing with a Hand Drill, [354]
Pop-Corn Cakes, How to Make, [153]
Popular Mechanics Magazine on Bookshelf, Index for, [308]
Porch Gate Folds into Hollow Pillar, [193]
Porch Light and Plant Shelf, Bark-Covered, [432]
Porch Swing, [167]
Porch Swing, Headrest for, [367]
Porch Swing Made from Automobile Seat, [425]
Porch Swings, Safety Spring for, [297]
Portable Fence for Baby’s Play Area, [195]
Portable Fire Screen, [68]
Portable Folding Boat, [135]
Portable Sectional Poultry Fencing, [329]
Portable Skylight for Home Portraiture, [330]
Portable Tent Made from an Umbrella and Paper Muslin, [364]
Portraiture, Home, Portable Skylight for, [330]
Post-Card Projector and Enlarging Camera, Improvised, [209]
Posts for Tennis Court, Removable, [415]
Pot, Empty Paste, Utilizing, [306]
Pots, Earthen Mustard, Used as Acid Jars, [391]
Potted Flowers, Turntable Stand for, [308]
Poultry, Concrete Water Basin for, [236]
Poultry Coops, Double Roofs Provide Ideal Shade for, [180]
Poultry, Feeding Pan for, [248]
Poultry Fence Construction Economical of Netting, [409]
Poultry Fencing, Portable Sectional, [329]
Poultry-House Door Latch, Spring Roost Releases, [448]
Poultry House, Trap Nest for, [455]
Poultry, Live, Weighed Handily in Funnel Scale, [442]
Poultry Yard, Feeding Geese in, [373]
Pouring Liquids Quickly from Container, [21]
Practical Memorandum for Odd Jobs, [322]
Practical Uses for Old Button Clasps, [432]
Practice Batting for Baseball Playing, [100]
Preserve Glasses, Combined Label and Cover Pad for, [4]
Preserving Leaves in Specimen Book, [10]
Press, Hand-Drill, Oiler for, [276]
Preventing Looseness of Drawer Handles, [357]
Prevents Soiling Goods After Oiling Sewing Machine, [402]
Printer, Developing-Paper, [375]
Printer, Homemade Magnesium, [226]
Printing Frame, Using Plate Holder as, [408]
Printing Machine, Photographic, [333]
Printing Pictures, Novel Masks for, [182]
Printing, Retouching Negatives for, [397]
Printing Surface, Curved, for Sharp Focus in Bromide Enlargements, [186]
Prints, Photographic, Making Glossy, [76]
Prints, Photographic Negatives and, Kinks in Washing, [181]
Projector, Post-Card, and Enlarging Camera, Improvised, [209]
Propeller Blades, How to Make Quickly, [395]
Protect Extra Spark Plugs, Box to, [440]
Protecting an Air Pump Against Denting, [412]
Protecting Light in a Gymnasium, [337]
Protecting Plans in a Shop, [376]
Protecting Wall Back of Range or Sink, [354]
Protection from Mosquitoes, Camp Shelter Affords, [181]
Protector, Book and Document, [294]
Pruning and Brush-Cutting Knife, [449]
Pulley and Weight Exerciser Homemade in the Orient, [365]
Pulley Slings, Canoe or Boat Stored in, [361]
Pump, Bicycle, Cleaning Type Cases with, [451]
Pump, Detachable Motor-Driven Tire, Made of Foot Pump, [454]
Pump, Small Rotary, Easily Made, [451]
Push Button, Doorbell, on Screen Door, [150]
Push Buttons, Miniature, [251]
Putty Deadens Glossy Surfaces in Photography, [360]
Putty, Good, How to Make, [396]
Putty, To Prevent Sticking to the Hands, [314]
Putty, To Remove from Hands, [387]
Puzzle, Moth-Ball, as Window-Advertising Novelty, [444]
Puzzle, Perpetual-Motion, [138]
Quick-Acting Bench Vise, [85]
Rabbits, Tile Trap for, [184]
Rack, Sewing, Attached to Rocker, [291]
Radiator Cover, Summer, Serves as Cupboard in Winter, [297]
Radiator Ornament, Lighted Whirling Fan Used as, [260]
Radiator Valve, Ship’s-Wheel Device for, [259]
Raft, Woodsman’s Log, [185]
Rain Alarm with Drop-of-Water Contact, [161]
Raising and Lowering Curtain at a Distance, [22]
Raising the Temperature of a Room, [356]
Rake Handle, Bicycle-Handle Grip on, [372]
Rake, Hoe or, Second Handle on, Saves Stooping, [160]
Range or Sink, Protecting Wall Back of, [354]
Rat Trap, Self-Setting, [31]
Ratchet Wheels, Small, Making in a Lathe, [266]
Rattle in Motorcycle Stand, Stopping, [414]
Rattling of Door, Eccentric Drawbolt Stops, [457]
Rattling of Windows, To Stop, [417]
Razor Blade, Wafer, Pencil Sharpener Made of, [361]
Reading Lamp, Piano or, [290]
Readings, Temperature, Transposing, [376]
Rear Seat for Motorcycle or Bicycle, [446]
Receptacles, Bench, for Small Articles, [350]
Receptacle for Shellac Varnish, [346]
Record-Cleaning Pad Fixed to Talking Machine, [444]
Record Time of Appointments and Other Events, Clock Device to, [322]
Recording Annunciator Target, [310]
Records, Disk Talking-Machine, Played Eccentrically, [328]
Records, Talking-Machine, Playing with the Finger Nail, [187]
Rectangular Opening to Use over Camera View Finder, [125]
Red Lens Hinged to Flash Light, for Dark-Room Use, [6]
Red Lights, Green and, Signal Telegraph with, [176]
Red Windows in Daylight Photographic Workroom, [169]
Reed Furniture, Woven, [261], 269
Reed Handle, Repairing Broken, [187]
Reel for Use with Seed-Planting Guide String, [422]
Reflected-Light Illumination with Homemade Arrangement, [128]
Reflector and Mirror, Combination Indirect-Light, [460]
Reflectors, Light, White Blotting Paper Improves, [196]
Refrigerator, Making Use of in Winter, [344]
Refrigerator, Window, [323]
Refuse-Catching Drawer, Wood Box with, [114]
Register, Hot-Air, Catch-All Screen Inside, [432]
Reinforcing a Strained Auto-Truck Frame, [454]
Reinforcing the Ends of Rubber Handlebar Grips, [452]
Relay of inexpensive Materials, Homemade, [332]
Releasing a Parachute from a Kite, [354]
Removable Drawer Stop, [10]
Removable Headrest for Chair, [432]
Removable Paraffin Covers for Jars, [298]
Removable Posts for Tennis Court, [415]
Removal Marker for Card Index, [372]
Removal of Wall Paper, Kink for, [295]
Remove Putty from Hands, [387]
Removing Sag from Couch Spring, [430]
Repair Rubber Gloves, How to, [286]
Repairing a Brass Candlestick, [372]
Repairing a Broken Canoe Paddle, [158]
Repairing a Broken Fly-Screen Frame, [356]
Repairing a Broken Metal Cross, [389]
Repairing a Broken Reed Handle, [187]
Repairing Burned-Out Incandescent Globes, [236]
Repairing Sectional Spun-Metal Candlestick, [382]
Repairing Shade-Roller Springs, [338]
Replacing a Broken Coffee Pot Knob, [226]
Reproducing Flowers and Leaves in Colors, [152]
Resistance, Measuring with a Lead Pencil, [249]
Retouching Negatives for Printing, [397]
Reversible Photographic Developing Tank, [325]
Reversing Switch, Cylinder, [297]
Revolving Card or Ticket Holder, [369]
Revolving Outdoor Lunch Table, [363]
Revolving-Wheel Ruling Pen, [134]
Revolving Window Display, [229]
Rheostat, Small, for Experiments and Testing, [206]
Rheostat, Water, for Small Electrical Devices, [196]
Rifle, Sporting, and How to Use It, [47]
Rigging Economizes Space in Closet, [433]
Rigging, Simple, Lawn Mower Sharpened Efficiently with, [448]
Ring-and-Egg Trick, [84]
Ring, Mystic Climbing, [22]
Ring, String-Cutting, Made of Horseshoe Nail, [5]
Rip in Tire Tubes, Checking, [354]
Rivets in Couches, Substitute for, [371]
Road Maps, Celluloid Cover for, [295]
Roadster with Motorcycle Engine, Homemade, [437]
Rocker, Developing or Etching-Tray, [218]
Rocker, Sewing Rack Attached to, [291]
Rod for Picking Fruit, Tin Can on, [54]
Rods, Round, for Fish Poles, Making, [40]
Rods, Turning Long Wood, [349]
Roll-Film Spools Useful in Economizing Pencils, [170]
Roll Films, New Method of Developing, [339]
Roll-Paper Feed for Typewriter, [207]
Roller, Shade, Toy Submarine Made of, [441]
Roller Skates, Homemade, [377]
Roller Truck for Use in Scrubbing, [210]
Rolling Can, Come-Back, [298]
Roofs, Double, Provide Ideal Shade for Poultry Coops, [180]
Room, Dark, Loading Box to Dispense with, [268]
Room, Electric Fan Aid to Heating, [426]
Room, Raising Temperature of, [356]
Roost, Spring, Releases Poultry-House Door Latch, [448]
Rope and Lever, Emergency Lifting Device of, [334]
Rope, Emergency Oarlock of, [218]
Rope Pad Prevents Slamming of Door, [440]
Rope, Sheepshank, Knot Used to Recover, [168]
Rope, Weighted, Holds Flag Upright, [451]
Roses Tinged Blue by Chemicals, [406]
Rotary Pump, Small, Easily Made, [451]
Round and Flat Edges, Ruler with, [350]
Round Rods for Fish Poles, Making, [40]
Rowing, Oars Flattened to Make Easier, [319]
Rubber Balloons, Toy, Filling with Hydrogen, [30]
Rubber Band, Making Scale Enlargements with, [175]
Rubber Band Prevents Tangling of Telephone Cord, [367]
Rubber Bands Made from Old Inner Tubes, [268]
Rubber Faucet Plug, Coffee Grinder Repaired with, [129]
Rubber Gloves, How to Repair, [286]
Rubber Pads for Opening Screw Watch Bezel, [448]
Rubbers, Drying Rack for Shoes and, [454]
Rudder for a Toboggan, [323]
Rug, Heavy, Hanging on Line for Beating, [389]
Rug, Pole Supports, for Cleaning, [10]
Ruler with Round and Flat Edges, [350]
Ruling Pen, Revolving-Wheel, [134]
Ruling Uniform Cards or Sheets, Aid in, [420]
Running Board of Automobile, Suitcase Holder for, [329]
Rust, Keeping Tools Bright and Free from, [212]
Rustic Trellis to Shade Door or Window, [175]
Rustic Well for a Bazaar or Fair Booth, [182]
Safeguarding Contents of Unsealed Envelopes, [363]
Safety Brake, Coaster with, [273]
Safety Chopping Block, [187]
Safety Cover for Valves on Gas Stove, [298]
Safety Flue Stopper Made of Tin Pail, [328]
Safety Pins, Novel Uses for, [445]
Safety Spring for Porch Swings, [297]
Sag, Removing from Couch Spring, [430]
Sail-Rigged Wind Motor, [172]
Sailing the Open Paddling Canoe, [86]
Sailors’ Sweetheart Picture Frame, [268]
Sal-Ammoniac, Renewing Dry Batteries with, [14]
Salt-and-Pepper Holder, Camper’s, [115]
Sandpapering Square Edges on Small Machine Bases, [418]
Sanitary Drinking Tube, [69]
Sanitary Holder for Thread and Dental Floss, [46]
Sapling, Hickory, Swing Made of, [335]
Scale Enlargements, Making with a Rubber Band, [175]
Scale Funnel, Live Poultry Weighed Handily in, [442]
Scale on Vaulting Pole Indicates Points of Grip, [411]
Scaler, Fish, [154]
Scales and Name Plates, Imitation-Celluloid, [353]
Scarecrow, Cat-and-Bells, [426]
Scarecrow, Swinging Bags on Arms of, [340]
Scenic Painting, Enlarged Lantern Pictures as Guides for, [419]
Scissors Blades, Keeping Apart Lengthens Their Service, [454]
Scoop Made of Box End, [433]
Scoop on Painter’s Knife Catches Scrapings, [365]
Scraper for Dishes, [337]
Scraper for Tennis Court, [311]
Scrapings, Scoop on Painter’s Knife Catches, [365]
Screen, Catch-All, Inside Hot-Air Register, [432]
Screen-Door Check, Homemade, [392]
Screen Door, Device Frightens Flies at, [425]
Screen Door, Doorbell Push Button on, [150]
Screen, Fluorescent, How to Make, [92]
Screen, Focusing, for Enlarging Cameras, [388]
Screw, Experimental Lead, How to Make, [31]
Screw Hooks, Putting in Neatly, [312]
Screw Watch Bezel, Rubber Pads for Opening, [448]
Screwdriver Made from Buttonhook, [362]
Screws, Driving in Hard Wood, [94]
Screws, Plaster of Paris to Set into Wall, [266]
Script on a Trophy Cup, Onlaying, [188]
Scrubbing and Floorwork, Caster Board for, [293]
Scrubbing, Roller Truck for Use in, [210]
Searchlight, Pivoted, Made of Old Milk Strainer, [139]
Seat, Automobile, Porch Swing Made from, [425]
Seat, Combination Workshop, [370]
Seat, Folding Ground, with Back Rest, [190]
Seat for Garden Workers, Movable Sunshade and, [148]
Seat, Fuel Box in, Filled from Floor Trapdoor, [332]
Seat, Hall, with Storage Compartment, [312]
Seat, Homemade Spring Wagon, [440]
Seat, Rear, for Motorcycle or Bicycle, [446]
Seats, Lawn, Built on Tree Stump, [141]
Second Handle on Hoe or Rake Saves Stooping, [160]
Secret Trinket Case for the Bookshelf, [296]
Section Liner, Homemade, [280]
Sectional Poultry Fencing, Portable, [329]
Sectional Spun-Metal Candlesticks, Repairing, [382]
Secure, Making Chest Lock More, [94]
Seed-Planting Guide String, Reel for Use with, [422]
Seeding Bare Spots on Lawns, [167]
Seeing an Alternating Current in a Mirror, [392]
Self-Setting Rat Trap, [31]
Set of Electric Chimes, [368]
Sewing Basket, Hourglass, [137]
Sewing Machine, Emery Needle Cushion in, [197]
Sewing Machine, Needle Threader for, [134]
Sewing Machine, Prevents Soiling Goods After Oiling, [402]
Sewing-Machine Thread, Preventing from Tangling, [382]
Sewing Rack Attached to Rocker, [291]
Sewing Stand with Workbag in Top, [293]
Shade and Curtains, Bedroom, Arranged for Thorough Ventilation, [128]
Shade, Ideal, Double Roofs Provide for Poultry Coops, [180]
Shade-Roller Springs, Repairing, [338]
Shade Roller, Toy Submarine Made of, [441]
Sharpener, Table-Knife, [22]
Sharpening Fiber Phonograph Needles, Device for, [361]
Shaving-Brush Holder, [76]
Shaving Lamp and Mirror for Camp, [162]
Sheath for Hunter’s Knife, Locking, [428]
Shed, Double Lock for, [157]
Sheepshank Knot Used to Recover Rope, [168]
Sheet-Metal Stand for Flatiron, [182]
Sheet Music, Tabs for Turning Quickly, [368]
Sheets of Paper, Straightening, [456]
Sheets, Typewritten Bound, Inserting or Correcting on, [419]
Sheets, Uniform Cards or, Aid in Ruling, [420]
Shellac Varnish, Receptacle for, [346]
Shelves, Wall, Easily Constructed, [108]
Shield for Heater in Chick Brooding House, [295]
Shielding Pictures from Damp Wall, [338]
Shipment, Convenient, Trunk Bookcase for, [217]
Ship’s-Wheel Device for a Radiator Valve, [259]
Shoe Laces, Frayed, Repaired with Pitch or Wax, [129]
Shoe-Polishing Strop, [344]
Shoes and Rubbers, Drying Rack for, [454]
Shoes, Tan, To Keep from Turning Dark, [377]
Shop, Protecting Plans in, [376]
Shop Use, Ironing or, Gas-Hose Bracket for, [366]
Shortening a Pasteboard Box, [337]
Shotgun and How to Use It:
Part I.—How a Shotgun is Made, [55]
Part II.—Choke and Pattern of a Gun, [63]
Shotgun Shell, Fishing-Tackle Outfit in, [142]
Shotgun Shell, Golf Tee Made of, [430]
Shoulder-Pack Tent, Homemade, [131]
Sideboard Converted into Kitchenette, [192]
Sidecar for a Parcel-Delivery Bicycle, [407]
Sign, Homemade Gate, with Metal Letters, [451]
Signal for Lighted Lights in Basement, [314]
Signal Telegraph with Green and Red Lights, [176]
Signboard, Antique, Made of Headboard of Bed, [15]
Silverware, Cleaning, [158]
Simple Barometer, [415]
Simple Concealed Locking Device for Cases of Drawers, [4]
Sink, Dishwashing, Combination Laundry Tub and, [218]
Sink, Old, Installed as Dish-Draining Basin, [452]
Sink, Protecting Wall Back of Range or, [354]
Sitting Hens, Coop for, [360]
Skates, Homemade Roller, [377]
Ski Sled, [41]
Skill, Marble-Under-Bridge Game of, [298]
Skis and Ski Running:
Part I.—Prominent Types of Modern Skis, [23]
Part II.—Running, Jumping and Climbing, [33]
Skylight, Portable, for Home Portraiture, [330]
Slamming of Door, Rope Pad Prevents, [440]
Sled, Folding Ice, [44]
Sled, One-Runner, [45]
Sled, Ski, [41]
Sleeping Tent, Hammock, [242]
Sleeve Aids in Distinguishing Gas-Fixture Chains, [247]
Slicing Board for Camp or Kitchen, [247]
Slide in Top of Drawer, Desk, [356]
Slide Tray, Nonbinding Tool-Chest, [371]
Slide, Water-Coasting Toboggan and, [183]
Sliding Board for Coasting, [14]
Sliding Windows, Horizontal, Hinge Lock for, [372]
Small Articles, Bench Receptacles for, [350]
Small Working Pile Driver, [215]
Smoker’s Cabinet or Cellarette, [32]
Smoker’s Trays, Morris Chair with Newspaper Rack, [309]
Smoking of Lamp Overcome by Increasing Draft, [361]
Snake Game, Indian, [388]
Snakes Inlaid, Turned Cane with, [325]
Snapper-Shell Ash Tray, [68]
Snow Blocks Made in Box Form, Fort Built of, [409]
Snow, Falling, Taking Photographs in, [140]
Snowshoe Toe Clips, Homemade, [418]
Socket, Fuse, Inkwell Base Made from, [344]
Sockets, Table, for Electrical Heating Apparatus, [396]
Sod Cutter, Horse-Drawn, [229]
Soiling Goods After Oiling Sewing Machine, Prevents, [402]
Solder, Making String, [235]
Soldering, Difficult, Alcohol Blowtorch for, [382]
Soldier, Compact Toilet Outfit for, [9]
Soldiers, Lead, and Similar Small Castings, Making, [455]
Soldier’s or Traveler’s Kit for Sundries and Toilet Articles, [453]
Sounding Glass, Mystery, [157]
Space in Closet, Rigging Economizes, [433]
Spacer for Curtain Rings, Cord Used as, [211]
Spade Handle, Broken, Repaired with Water Pipe, [242]
Spark Plugs, Extra, Box to Protect, [440]
Sparks, Electric, Photographing, [399]
Specimen Book, Preserving Leaves in, [10]
Speed, Pedals for Typewriter Space and Shift Key Increase, [364]
Spit, Water Wheel Turns over Campfire, [429]
Split-Bamboo Lettering Pen, [142]
Split-Bamboo Tray for Top, Folding Table with, [424]
Split Needle Causes Echo on Talking Machine, [217]
Splitting, Driving Nails to Prevent, [373]
Spokes, Wire, in Wheels, Handy Tool for Tightening, [450]
Spoon Attachment to Prevent Child from Using Left Hand, [317]
Sporting Rifle and How to Use It, [47]
Sportsman’s Cabinet for Guns, Equipment and Books, [434]
Spray Liquid in Atomizer, Bottle Economizes, [450]
Spray Nozzle Made of Acetylene Burner, [248]
Spray, Pressure, Made of Old Oilcan, [212]
Spring for Porch Swings, Safety, [297]
Spring-Roller Curtains, Automatic Stop for, [317]
Spring Roost Releases Poultry-House Door Latch, [448]
Spring Wagon Seat, Homemade, [440]
Springs, Coiled, Winding, [134]
Springs, Discarded Buggy, for Diving Board, [429]
Springs, for Play Auto, Barrel Staves as, [311]
Springs, Opening, for a Tennis-Racket Clamp, [393]
Springs, Repairing Shade-Roller, [338]
Springy Hammock Supports Made of Boughs, [369]
Sprocket Drive, Belt for, Made of Brass Strips, [160]
Square Edges on Small Machine Bases, Sandpapering, [418]
Squeezing Paste from Tubes, [391]
Squirrel-Skin Bill Fold, [265]
Stage Use, Player or, Comic Chest Expander for, [429]
Stake, Nontangling Pasture, [136]
Stand for Flatiron, Sheet-Metal, [182]
Stand for Potted Flowers, Turntable, [308]
Stand for Test-Tube Flower Vase, [21]
Staples, Tinned, for Bell-Circuit Wiring, [420]
Star-Kite, Eight-Pointed, [159]
Starting Garden Plants, [373]
Steam-Propelled Motorcycle Made by Mechanic, [191]
Steam Tractor, Model, Made by Boy, [410]
Steel Fishing Rods, Enamel for, [349]
Steel Wool as Aluminum-Ware Cleaner, [162]
Steel Wool, Uses for, [348]
Steering Gear, Coaster, Made from Cream-Freezer Drive, [161]
Stenciling with Photographic Films, [416]
Stepmother for Incubator Chicks, [130]
Stick, Mixing, That Breaks Up Lumps, [54]
Sticking to Hands, Preventing Putty, [314]
Sticks Held in Flooring Groove, Planing Thin, [218]
Stool, High, How to Make, [378]
Stools, Small, and Foot Rests, Variety of, [261]
Stooping, Second Handle on Rake or Hoe Saves, [160]
Stop, Bench, [395]
Stop for Spring-Roller Curtains, Automatic, [317]
Stop, Removable Drawer, [10]
Stopper for a Bunghole, [254]
Stopper, Oilcan, [349]
Stopping Rattle in Motorcycle Stand, [414]
Storage Compartment, Hall Seat with, [312]
Storage of Camp Equipment, Care and, [304]
Storage of Wood for Cabinetwork, [389]
Stove, Emergency Alcohol, [350]
Stove, Fifty-Cent Electric, [260]
Stove, Gas, for the Dining Table, [373]
Stove, Gasoline, Denatured Alcohol to Start, [413]
Stove Lighter with Feeding Wick Guards Against Burns, [459]
Stove, Small Cooking, Economical Use of Wood Alcohol in, [210]
Stoves, Emergency Camp, Quickly Made, [449]
Straightening Sheets of Paper, [456]
Strained Auto-Truck Frame, Reinforcing, [454]
Strap, Carrying, and Lock for Hand Cases, [328]
Straw Hat, Old, Bird House Made of, [181]
Stretcher for Drying Small Fur Hides, [421]
Strength of a Giant, Showing, [108]
Striking of Clock, Electrical Device Transmits, [14]
String-Cutting Ring Made of Horseshoe Nail, [5]
String Solder, Making, [235]
String, To Uncork a Bottle with, [402]
Strips, Device for Corrugating, [421]
Strop, Shoe-Polishing, [344]
Stump, Ornamenting Old Tree, [123]
Stumps, Tree, Lawn Seats Built on, [141]
Submarine Camera, [219]
Submarine, Toy, Made of Shade Roller, [441]
Substitute for Gas-Stove Oven, [45]
Substitute for Ground Glass in Camera, [236]
Substitute for Rivets in Couches, [371]
Suitcase Extension, Homemade, [360]
Suitcase Holder for Running Board of Automobile, [329]
Summer Camp, Diving Tower for, [274]
Summer Radiator Cover Serves as Cupboard in Winter, [297]
Summer Veranda, Taborets and Small Tables for, [269]
Sundial Plate, Horizontal, Laying Out, [436]
Sundries and Toilet Articles, Soldier’s or Traveler’s Kit, [453]
Sunshade and Seat, Movable, for Garden Workers, [148]
Support for Flower Centerpiece, Wire-Mesh, [344]
Support for Wagon Pole Aids in Hooking Up Team, [5]
Support, Springy Hammock, Made of Boughs, [369]
Sweetheart, Sailor’s, Picture Frame, [268]
Swimmers, Webfoot Attachments for, [381]
Swing, Child’s, Built of Pipes in Narrow Space, [358]
Swing, Circular, [177]
Swing Made of Hickory Sapling, [335]
Swing, Porch, [167]
Swing, Porch, Headrest for, [367]
Swing, Porch, Made from Automobile Seat, [425]
Swinging Bags on Arms of Scarecrow, [340]
Swings, Playground, Bearing for, [276]
Swings, Safety Spring for Porch, [297]
Switch, Cylinder Reversing, [297]
Switch, Lightning, for Wireless Aerials, [415]
“Switchboard” Protects Milker from Cow’s Tail, [128]
T-Squares, Making, [101]
Table, Bird, Cat-Proof, [76]
Table Box for Campers, [124]
Table, Combination Camp-Kitchen Cabinet and, [126]
Table, Dining, Gas Stove for, [373]
Table, Folding Card, Handy for Invalid in Bed, [308]
Table, Folding, with Split-Bamboo Tray for Top, [424]
Table, Ironing Board for Use on, [315]
Table, Jig-Saw, for Vise, [93]
Table-Knife Sharpener, [22]
Table Lamp, Inexpensive, Made of Electrical-Fixture Parts, [127]
Table Mats, Asbestos, Reinforced with Wire Netting, [421]
Table, Octagonal Mission Center, [7]
Table, Old, Used as Wall Workbench, [440]
Table, Parlor, [151]
Table, Revolving Outdoor Lunch, [363]
Table Sockets for Electrical Heating Apparatus, [396]
Table Stands for Hot Dishes, Attractive, [210]
Table, Window Frame and, for Dark Room, [320]
Tables, Small, and Taborets for the Summer Veranda, [269]
Taborets and Small Tables for the Summer Veranda, [269]
Tabs for Turning Sheet Music Quickly, [368]
Take-Down Emergency Oars, [395]
Taking Pictures from Kite, Camera for, [52]
Talking-Machine Cabinet, Automatic Electric Light on, [162]
Talking-Machine Cabinet, Homemade, [310]
Talking Machine, Disk, as China Banding Wheel, [10]
Talking Machine, Kinks for, [179]
Talking-Machine Needles, Uses for Worn, [329]
Talking Machine, Record-Cleaning Pad Fixed to, [445]
Talking-Machine Records, Disk, Played Eccentrically, [328]
Talking-Machine Records, Playing with the Finger Nail, [187]
Talking Machine, Split Needle Causes Echo on, [217]
Tan Shoes, To Keep from Turning Dark, [377]
Tandem, Three-Wheel, Bicycles Driven as, After Breakdown, [410]
Tangling of Telephone Cord, Rubber Band Prevents, [367]
Tangling, Preventing Sewing-Machine Thread from, [382]
Tank, Miniature Fighting, [202]
Tank, Reversible Photographic Developing, [325]
Target Box, Illuminated Indicating, [180]
Target, Recording Annunciator, [310]
Teakettle Cover Held by Dent in Edge, [5]
Team, Support for Wagon Pole Aids in Hooking Up, [5]
Teaspoon, Catching Large Fish with, [401]
Tee, Golf, Made of a Shotgun Shell, [430]
Telegraph Recorder with Spool-and-Pencil Indicator, [171]
Telegraph, Signal, with Green and Red Lights, [176]
Telegraph Sounder, Battery Buzzer Converted into, [141]
Telephone Cord, Rubber Band Prevents Tangling of, [367]
Telescope, Interesting Water, [228]
Temperature of a Room, Raising, [356]
Temperature, Proper, Heater Keeps Developer at, [190]
Temperature Readings, Transposing, [376]
Temporary Binder for Magazines, [370]
Tender, Bicycle Carried on Automobile, [190]
Tennis-Court Backstop, Knock-Down, [189]
Tennis-Court Marker, Wheelbarrow as, [397]
Tennis Court, Removable Posts for, [415]
Tennis Court, Scraper for, [311]
Tennis Courts, To Keep Grass and Weeds Out of, [149]
Tennis Nets, Tightening Lever for, [158]
Tennis-Racket Clamp, Opening Springs for, [393]
Tenpins, Home, Pin Setter for, [61]
Tension Weight, Emergency, Used on Typewriter, [457]
Tent, Hammock Sleeping, [242]
Tent, Homemade Shoulder-Pack, [131]
Tent, Portable, Made from an Umbrella and Paper Muslin, [364]
Test Exposures for Bromide Enlargements, [411]
Test-Tube Flower Vase, Stand for, [21]
Test Tube, Mucilage Brush and Container Made of, [335]
Testing and Caring for Files, [400]
Testing Direct Current Polarity with Litmus Paper, [369]
Testing Dry Cells with Light Bulb, [267]
Theft, Guarding Camp Chest Against, [362]
Thermometer, Joining Broken Liquid Column, [366]
Thread and Dental Floss, Sanitary Holder for, [46]
Thread Fabric, Electric Counting Glass for, [321]
Thread, Sewing-Machine, Preventing from Tangling, [382]
Threader, Needle, for Sewing Machine, [134]
Threading a Darning Needle, [153]
Three-Caster Truck for Moving Crates and Furniture, [419]
Thresher, Small, of Practical Use, [444]
Ticket Holder, Revolving Card or, [369]
Ticking of a Watch or Clock, Muffling, [223]
Tightening Lever for Tennis Nets, [158]
Tightening Wire Spokes in Wheels, Handy Tool for, [450]
Tile Trap for Rabbits, [184]
Tilting Top for Camera Tripod, [242]
Time, Blotter Attached to Wrist Saves, [295]
Timing Pointer on Watch Crystal, [364]
Tin Can, Camp Lantern Made of, [406]
Tin Can, Case for Fishhooks Made of, [267]
Tin Can, Cheese Grater and Ash Tray Made from, [225]
Tin Can on Rod for Picking Fruit, [54]
Tin Cover, Frying Pan Made of, [298]
Tin Pail, Safety Flue Stopper, [328]
Tinned Staples for Bell-Circuit Wiring, [420]
Tinware, Cleaning with Milk, [44]
Tire, Motor-Car, Changing Without a Jack, [210]
Tire Patch, [400]
Tire Pump, Detachable Motor-Driven, Made of Foot Pump, [454]
Tire Pump Made of Gas Piping, [419]
Tire Tubes, Checking a Rip in, [354]
Tires, Baby-Cab, Changing Wheels Equalizes Wear on, [446]
Tires, Economy in Motorcycle, [188]
Toboggan and Slide, Water-Coasting, [183]
Toboggan, Coasting, Making a, [11]
Toboggan Made of Old Buggy Shafts, [410]
Toboggan, Rudder for, [323]
Toe Clips, Homemade Snowshoe, [418]
Toilet Articles, Sundries and, Soldier’s or Traveler’s Kit for, [452]
Toilet Outfit, Compact, for the Soldier, [9]
Tool-Chest Slide Tray, Nonbinding, [371]
Tool Drawer, Convenient, Under Chair Seat, [169]
Tool Handles, Ferrules for, [157]
Tool, Handy, for Tightening Wire Spokes in Wheels, [450]
Tool, Oiling, for Clocks, [107]
Tool Rack, Yardstick on, [417]
Tool Sockets in Edge of Drawing Board, [435]
Tool, Weeding, [248]
Tools, Keeping Bright and Free from Rust, [212]
Toothbrush, Uses for Old, [428]
Tooth Powder Used on Tracing Cloth, [346]
Top of Drawer, Desk Slide in, [356]
Top, Split-Bamboo Tray for, Folding Table with, [424]
Top, Tilting, for Camera Tripod, [242]
Tossing Card at Mark Accurately, [69]
Towel, Disappearing, [154]
Tower, Diving, for the Summer Camp, [274]
Toy Alligator of Wood, Mechanical, [460]
Toy Electric Motor, Quickly Made, [252]
Toy Horse That Walks, [363]
Toy Machine Gun Fires Wooden Bullets, [408]
Toy Paper Glider Carefully Designed, [324]
Toy Paper Warships, [293]
Toy Pigeon, Mechanical, Made of Wood, [433]
Toy Rubber Balloons, Filling with Hydrogen, [30]
Toy Submarine Made of Shade Roller, [441]
Toy Tractor Built with Dry Cell and Motor, [9]
Toy, Wire-Walking, [180]
Toys and Boxes Made at Home, Decorative, [299]
Tracing-Cloth Drawings, Mounting on Muslin, [418]
Tracing Cloth, Tooth Powder Used on, [346]
Track System, Homemade Electric Locomotive Model and:
Part I.—The Motor, [231]
Part II.—Construction of the Locomotive Truck and Cab, [237]
Part III.—Construction of the Track System, [243]
Tractor, Toy, Built with Dry Cell and Motor, [9]
Train Berth, Improvised Trousers Hanger in, [367]
Train, Writing on Moving, [228]
Trammels, How to Make a Pair of, [166]
Transfer Drawings, How to, [138]
Transferring Pictures to Glass, [443]
Transmitting Writing, Simple Machine for, [442]
Transplanting, Device for Packing Earth in, [211]
Transposing Temperature Readings, [376]
Trap for Coyotes, [306]
Trap for Rabbits, Tile, [184]
Trap Nest for the Poultry House, [455]
Trap, Self-Setting Rat, [31]
Trapdoor, Floor, Fuel Box in Seat Filled from, [332]
Traveler’s Kit, Soldier’s or, for Sundries and Toilet Articles, [453]
Tray Attachment for Developing Films, [280]
Tray, Developing, Cooler for, [149]
Tray for Top, Split-Bamboo, Folding Table with, [424]
Tray, Handy, for Pencils and Penholders, [430]
Tray, Liquid-Filled, Carried Safely, [439]
Tray, Nonbinding Tool-Chest Slide, [371]
Trays, Cocoanut-Shell, [414]
Trays, Index, Novel Covered Box for, [414]
Trays, Making Photographic, [406]
Trays, Muffin-Pan, Nail Cabinet with, [230]
Tree Stump, Ornamenting Old, [123]
Tree Stumps, Lawn Seats Built on, [141]
Trellis, Rustic, to Shade Door or Window, [175]
Trenches, Miniature Fighting Tank That Hurdles, [202]
Trick Blotter, [354]
Trick, Diminishing Card, [396]
Trick, Disappearing-Coin, [144]
Trick, Finger-Trap, [377]
Trick, Glass-and-Hat, [342]
Trick, Match-Box, [230]
Trick, Ring-and-Egg, [84]
Trick, Vanishing-Cuff Parlor, [127]
Tricks of Camping Out:
Part I.—The Camping Outfit, [109]
Part II.—Cooking in the Woods, [117]
Trim Magazines for Binding, Knife to, [286]
Trimmer, Photo and Paper, Homemade Guide for, [366]
Trimming Board with Foot Control and Counterweight, [308]
Trinket Case for the Bookshelf, Secret, [296]
Tripod, Camera, Tilting Top for, [242]
Trips, Memorandum List for Camping and Outing, [365]
Trophy Cup, Onlaying Script on, [188]
Trouble Lamp, Homemade, [365]
Trouser Hanger, [350]
Trousers Hanger, Improvised, in Train Berth, [367]
Truck, Gravity-Feed Coal Hopper on, [140]
Truck, Three-Caster, for Moving Crates and Furniture, [419]
Trunk Bookcase for Convenient Shipment, [217]
Tub, Combination Laundry and Dishwashing Sink, [218]
Tuberculosis Cottage, A, [385]
Tubes, Cardboard, for Electrical Coils, Making, [438]
Tubes, Old Inner, Rubber Bands Made from, [268]
Tubes, Paste, Wall Pocket for, [16]
Tubes, Squeezing Paste from, [391]
Tubing, Cane Made of, Contains Cigars, [430]
Tug-of-War Game, Device for Finger, [319]
Turbine, Small Hydraulic, [427]
Turned Cane with Snakes Inlaid, [325]
Turning Long Wood Rods, [349]
Turning Sheet Music Quickly, Tabs for, [368]
Turning, To Prevent Wire Coat Hook from, [235]
Turntable Stand for Potted Flowers, [308]
Twine Hammock, How to Make, [277]
Twisting Thriller Merry-Go-Round, [179]
Two Colors, Writing, on Plain-Ribbon Typewriter, [168]
Type Cases, Cleaning with Bicycle Pump, [451]
Typewriter Desk, Improvised, [225]
Typewriter, Emergency Tension Weight Used on, [457]
Typewriter, Feeding Cards into, [437]
Typewriter, Kinks in Cleaning, [6]
Typewriter, Plain-Ribbon, Writing Two Colors on, [168]
Typewriter, Roll-Paper Feed for, [207]
Typewriter Space and Shift Keys, Pedals for Increase Speed, [364]
Typewriter, Wire Clips Weight Paper in, [409]
Typewritten Bound Sheets, Inserting or Correcting on, [419]
Ukulele, Homemade Hawaiian, [358]
Umbrella and Paper Muslin, Portable Tent Made from, [364]
Umbrella Handle, Making Detachable, [439]
Umbrella Used as a Clothes Drier, [366]
Umbrellas, Kinks on Care of, [422]
Uncork a Bottle with a String, To, [402]
Unsealed Envelopes, Safeguarding Contents of, [363]
Use for Old Magazines, [399]
Uses for an Old Toothbrush, [428]
Uses for Worn Talking-Machine Needles, [329]
Utensil Rack for Camp Fire, [397]
Utensils, Kitchen, Cupboard for, [396]
Utilizing an Empty Paste Pot, [306]
Vacuum Pail, How to Make, [315]
Valve-Bottom Pail for Dipping Water, [344]
Valve, Radiator, Ship’s-Wheel Device for, [259]
Valves on Gas Stove, Safety Cover for, [298]
Vanishing-Cuff Parlor Trick, [127]
Vaporizer, Homemade, [346]
Variable Condenser, Small, [334]
Vase, Test-Tube Flower, Stand for, [21]
Vaulting Pole, Scale on, Indicates Points of Grip, [411]
Vehicle, Child’s Play, Auto Horn for, [16]
Ventilation, Thorough, Bedroom Shade and Curtains Arranged for, [128]
Ventilator, Window, [312]
Veranda, Summer, Taborets and Small Tables for, [269]
Vest, Guard Saves Wear on, [413]
Vibrator, Double-Contact, [140]
View Finder, Camera, Rectangular Opening to Use Over, [125]
View Finder, Direct, for Box Camera, [353]
Views, Fireside Dissolving, [351]
Vise, Jig-Saw Table for, [93]
Vise, Quick-Acting Bench, [85]
Vises for the Home Workbench, Two Simple, [197]
Vulcanizer, Homemade, [323]
Wagon-Wheel Felly and Spoke, Mallet Made from, [157]
Wagon Pole, Support for, Aids in Hooking Up Team, [5]
Wagon Seat, Homemade Spring, [440]
Wall Back of Range or Sink, Protecting, [354]
Wall Desk, Folding, [292]
Wall Fastening, Ironing-Board, [318]
Wall Paper, Kink for Removal of, [295]
Wall, Plaster of Paris to Set Screws into, [266]
Wall Pocket for Paste Tubes, [16]
Wall Shelves, Easily Constructed, [108]
Wall Workbench, Old Table Used as, [440]
Walls, Damp, Shielding Pictures from, [338]
Walks, Toy Horse That, [363]
Warships, Toy Paper, [293]
Washing Bromide Enlargements, [336]
Washing Device, Automatic Photo-Print, [329]
Washing Machine Equipped with Churn Attachment, [208]
Washing Machine, Photographic-Print, [327]
Washing Photographic Negatives and Prints, Kinks in, [181]
Washstand for the Baby, [328]
Wastebasket, False Bottom for Emptying, [344]
Watch Bezel, Screw, Rubber Pads for Opening, [448]
Watch Crystal, Timing Pointer on, [364]
Watch Holder, Desk, [158]
Watch, Mysterious, [70]
Watch or Clock, Muffling the Ticking of, [223]
Water Bag Camp, [122]
Water Basin for Poultry, Concrete, [236]
Water-Coasting Toboggan and Slide, [183]
Water Heater, Carbon Electric, [356]
Water, Irrigation, Current of Canal Raises, [411]
Water-Jacket Outlet, Bilge Water Siphoned Through, [413]
Water Pipe, Broken Spade Handle Repaired with, [242]
Water Rheostat for Small Electrical Devices, [196]
Water Telescope, Interesting, [228]
Water, Valve-Bottom Pail for Dipping, [344]
Water Wheel Turns Spit Over Campfire, [429]
Watering Window-Box Flowers, [144]
Waterproof Dry-Battery Case, [265]
Waterproofing for Fish Lines, [94]
Waterproofing Matches, [230]
Wear on Baby-Cab Tires, Changing Wheels Equalizes, [446]
Wear on Drafting Board, Cork Plugs Save, [21]
Wear on Vest, Guard Saves, [413]
Webfoot Attachments for Swimmers, [381]
Weeding Garden, Forceps for, [338]
Weeding Tool, [248]
Weeds, Grass and, To Keep Out of Tennis Courts, [149]
Weight, Emergency Tension, Used on Typewriter, [457]
Weighted Rope Holds Flag Upright, [451]
Weighting a Metal Base, [217]
Well, Rustic, for Bazaar or Fair Booth, [182]
Wheel, China Banding, Disk Talking Machine as, [10]
Wheelbarrow as Tennis-Court Marker, [397]
Wheelbarrow for Large Cans, [330]
Wheels, Changing, Equalizes Wear on Baby-Cab Tires, [446]
Wheels, Handy Tool for Tightening Wire Spokes in, [450]
Wheels, Model Gear, Gauge for Laying Out, [384]
Whipping of Flag, Chain Weight Prevents, [409]
Whirligig, Perpetual, [400]
Whirling Fan, Hand-Operated, [398]
Whirling Fan, Lighted, Used as Radiator Ornament, [260]
Whistle, Hand-Operated Motorboat, [178]
Whistle Warns of Fish Catch, [275]
White Blotting Paper Improves Light Reflectors, [196]
Wick, Feeding, Stove Lighter with, Guards Against Burns, [459]
Wick, Lighting Candle Without Touching, [334]
Wicks, Lamp, Cheaply Made, [236]
Wind, Lighting a Match in, [382]
Wind Motor, Sail Rigged, [172]
Wind Wire on Electrical Apparatus, How to, [136]
Winder, Egg Beater Made into for Model Aeroplanes, [459]
Winding Coiled Springs, [134]
Window-Advertising Novelty, Moth-Ball Puzzle as, [444]
Window-Box Flowers, Watering, [144]
Window Box, Hinged, [413]
Window Closer, Automatic, [280]
Window Display, Revolving, [229]
Window Frame and Table for Dark Room, [320]
Window Refrigerator, [323]
Window, Rustic Trellis to Shade Door or, [175]
Window Sash, Locking, [62]
Window Ventilator, [312]
Windows, Horizontal Sliding, Hinge Lock for, [372]
Windows, To Stop Rattling of, [417]
Wings, Covering Hinge, [276]
Winter, Making Use of Refrigerator in, [344]
Winter, Summer Radiator Cover Serves as Cupboard in, [297]
Winter Use, Bee Feeder for, [192]
Winter Use, Bicycle Runner for, [418]
Wire Clips Weight Paper in Typewriter, [409]
Wire Coat Hook, To Prevent from Turning, [235]
Wire Compacts Bristles in Polish or Stencil Brushes, [439]
Wire Holders Keep Cabinet Doors Open, [127]
Wire, How to Wind on Electrical Apparatus, [136]
Wire-Mesh Cage, Fisherman’s Pail with, [454]
Wire Mesh, Preventing from Rising Between Fence Posts, [93]
Wire-Mesh Support for Flower Centerpiece, [344]
Wire Netting, Asbestos Table Mats Reinforced with, [421]
Wire-Screen Pincushion, [456]
Wire Spokes in Wheels, Handy Tool for Tightening, [450]
Wire Trellis Fastened Neatly to Brick Walls, [8]
Wire-Walking Toy, [180]
Wireless Aerials, Lightning Switch for, [415]
Wireless Detector, Simple, [456]
Wiring, Bell-Circuit, Tinned Staples for, [420]
Wishbone-Mast Ice Yacht, [17]
Wood Alcohol, Economical Use of in Small Cooking Stove, [210]
Wood Box with a Refuse-Catching Drawer, [144]
Wood, Driving Thin Metal into, [247]
Wood for Cabinetwork, Storage of, [389]
Wood, Groove Cutter for, [45]
Wood, Hard, Driving Screws in, [94]
Wood, Mechanical Toy Alligator of, [460]
Wood, Mechanical Toy Pigeon Made of, [433]
Wood Rods, Turning Long, [349]
Wood Turning on an Emery Grinder, [402]
Wood-Wind Instruments, Repairing, [174]
Wood, Working by Application of Heat, [150]
Wooden Bullet, Toy Machine Gun Fires, [408]
Wooden Disks, Cutting Thin, [16]
Wooden Strips, Enameled Armchair Made of, [129]
Woods, Birch-Bark Leggings Made of, [421]
Woods, Cooking in the, [117]
Woodsman’s Log Raft, [185]
Woodwork, Gauge for, [252]
Workbag in Top, Sewing Stand with, [293]
Workbench, Home, Two Simple Vises for, [197]
Workbench, Pencil Holder for, [236]
Workbench, Placing Miter Box on, [294]
Workbench, Wall, Old Table Used as, [440]
Working Pile Driver, Small, [215]
Working Wood by Application of Heat, [150]
Workshop Seat, Combination, [370]
Worn Talking-Machine Needles, Uses for, [329]
Woven-Reed Footstool, [255]
Woven Reed Furniture, [261], [269]
Wrap Papers, Proper Way for Mailing, [44]
Wrench, Fountain-Pen, [273]
Wrist, Blotter Attached to Saves Time, [295]
Writing and Drawing Pad, Cardboard, [130]
Writing Desk, Combination Bookcase and, [316]
Writing, Homemade Device Aids Blind Person, [438]
Writing on a Moving Train, [228]
Writing, Simple Machine for Transmitting, [442]
X-Ray Lens, Feather as, [412]
Yardstick on Tool Rack, [417]