A practical, thorogoing, working knowledge of electricity can be obtained from this handbook for boys. “It tells how to make cells and batteries, switches and insulators, armatures, motors and coils. It shows how easily experiments may be made with home-made appliances at small cost. Every-day uses of electricity are explained so that boys will understand and at the same time be stimulated to put forth their own skill and ingenuity.” Numerous cuts of apparatus are given.
Adams, Joseph Henry. [Harper’s outdoor book for boys]; with contributions by Kirk Munroe, Tappan Adney, Capt. Howard Patterson, Leroy Milton Yale and others. $1.75. Harper.
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Instructive, above all things practical, this book is based upon experience, whose aim is to show boys how to do accurately all manner of out-of-door things within their powers. Beginning with the backyard, detailed information is given for such contrivances as pet shelters, windmills, aërial toys; going farther afield the interest centers in coasters, skees, kites, fishing tackle, etc.; then come boat building and boat management; while the fourth part of the book is devoted to camps and camping, tree-huts, brush-houses, etc.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 205. N. ’07. ✠ |
“We have seen no book of the kind so thoroughly practical and so well adapted to its aims as this.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 280w. |
“No book better suited to develop ingenuity and mechanical ability.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 305. My. 11, ’07. 120w. |
“It is a reference book that is worth while to have on hand.”