[Transcriber's note: Image sizes are limited to the browser window size. To expand an image, right click on the image and select "view image" or "open image in new tab". Then click on the new image to see it full size. You could also just use you favorite image viewer directly.
Many projects are of contemporary interest—magic, kites and boomerangs for example. Try a ["Querl"] for starters.
There are many projects of purely historical interest, such as chemical photography, phonographs, and devices for coal furnaces.
Another class of projects illustrate the caviler attitude toward environment and health in 1913. These projects involve items such as asbestos, gunpowder, acetylene, hydrogen, lead, mercury, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, cadmium, potassium sulfate, potassium cyanide, potassium ferrocyanide, copper sulfate, and hydrochloric acid. Many references to these have been highlighted in red.
Projects requiring extra skill and care that involve high voltage, melting metals, or other hazards, have the title highlighted.
Please view these as snapshots of culture and attitude, not as suggestions for contemporary activity.
Be careful and have fun, or simply read and enjoy a trip into yesterday.]
The Boy Mechanic
Vol. 1
700 Things for Boys to Do
800 Illustrations Showing How
The Boy Mechanic
Vol. 1
[Index]
How to Make a Glider (See page [171])
The Boy Mechanic
Volume I
700 Things For Boys To Do
How To Construct
Wireless Outfits, Boats, Camp Equipment,
Aerial Gliders, Kites,
Self-propelled Vehicles Engines, Motors,
Electrical Apparatus, Cameras
And
Hundreds Of Other Things Which Delight Every Boy
With 800 Illustrations
Copyrighted, 1913, By H. H. Windsor
Chicago
Popular Mechanics Co.
Publishers
