Specially applicable to Country Houses, Farms, Small Settlements, Launches, Yachts, etc. By Norman H. Schneider. Giving full details and illustrations of the most up-to-date small American Plants. Contents of chapters. 1. Introduction. 2. The Storage Battery. 3. Estimating the Installation. 4. The Electric Plant. 5. Some Typical Plants. 6. Installation and Operation. 95 pages, 27 illustrations.
by A. F. Collins. Complete and detailed data for constructing a five to ten mile set, also a ten to twenty-five mile set. 1. A five to ten mile tuned transmitter. 2. A five to ten mile tuned coherer receptor. 3. A five to ten mile tuned auto-detector receptor. 4 and 5. A ten to twenty-five mile tuned transmitter. 6. A ten to twenty-five mile tuned coherer receptor. 7. A ten to twenty-five mile auto-detector receptor. 80 pages, 63 illustrations.
by A. Frederick Collins. Complete and detailed instructions for making an experimental set, also a one to five mile set. 1. An experimental transmitter. An experimental receptor. 3. A one to five mile transmitter. 4. A one to five miles coherer receptor. 5. A one to five mile auto-receptor. 55 pages, 37 illustrations.
By W. G. Aston. Contents of chapters: 1. General principles and their application. 2. Power. 3. Supporting surfaces. 4. Screws, and how to make them. 5. Tails and elevators. 6. Fins. 7. Designs. With a number of examples of monoplane, bi-plane, tandem bi-plane and tri-plane models. 8. Dirigibles. 9. Helicopters. 10. Ornithopters. 11. Winding apparatus. 12. Compressed air motor. A first-rate book for Model Makers, 125 pages, 95 illustrations, 12mo. boards, postpaid, for 550.
How to Make and Fly Them. A booklet with one large sheet containing twelve butterflies and two birds in colors and material for making a small card-board Model Aeroplane Glider. Complete in folder, postpaid, for 55c.
By E. W. Twining. Consisting of one booklet and five large scaled drawings for three Twining Models, two of them being of the Bi-plane Glider type. Complete in folder, postpaid, for 55c.
By D. Ross Kennedy. Containing nine sheets of scale drawings of the following celebrated Aeroplanes: Bi-plane type-Wright, Farman, Voisin, Cody, Herring-Curtis. Monoplanes—Rep. Antoinette, Santos Dumont, and Bleriot. Each of these machines are here shown in End View, Plan and Elevation. Including booklet which contains a description of each machine. This timely set of drawings should prove of value to everyone interested in this important new industry. The complete set in folder, postpaid, for 55c.
A large scale drawing of this prize-winning Monoplane. With all measurements and details showing a front elevation, a side elevation and a top elevation; with 8-page descriptive booklet of particulars postpaid, 15c.
that will carry a man. By A. P. Morgan. A practical handbook on its construction and management. Enabling an intelligent reader to make his first step in the field of aviation with a comprehensive understanding of some of the principles involved. Fully illustrated with detailed drawings. Contents of chapters: 1. The frame work assembling and finishing the wood. 2. Covering the planes, laying out the fabric and fastening it. 3. Trussing, fastening the tie-rods and trueing the glider. 4. Gliding flight, the principles involved, instructions and precautions. 5. Remarks. 60 pages, 31 illustrations.
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