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The Boy Mechanic, Volume Two
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 NOTE:  OUT OF PRINT-THEY'RE ALL GONE FOR NOW.
Volume Two
"1000 things for Boys to Do."   [More Information Below]

The Boy Mechanic, Volume Two

"1000 things for Boys to Do." 

Do plane-table surveying and make accurate maps. Make a four-passenger bobsled, and ice glider, snowshoes, snowball thrower, paddlewheel boat, tandem monoplane glider, movie camera and projector, laboratory gas generator, soap box racer, oil burner for cook stove, combination lock for a drawer, magic tricks, electric score board, disc-armature motor, and hundreds of other things. 

From 1915. Like volume one, this is a classic worth having. Get one! 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 

softcover 473 pages 

No. 20676 

 


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The Boy Mechanic, Volume Three
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Volume Three
Only 800 things for boys to do in this volume. Just 800... (Narratives and photos copyright Lindsay Publications, used with permission).  [More Information Below]

The Boy Mechanic, Volume Three

Only 800 things for boys to do in this volume. Just 800... 

This third volume seems to be somewhat more outdoors oriented than the first two volumes. You get ideas on building a coasting toboggan, sail driven ice boat, instructions on skiing, casting for game fish, on building a canoe, a house boat, a portable fishing boat, tricks of camping out and much more. You'll find great ideas on building a boy's homemade motor car, mission furniture, a searchlight, a dragon kite, a model mono-plane, a circular swing, a merry-go-round, a aerial cableway, a miniature fighting tank, a machine gun, a small working pile driver,homemade electric model train set, plans for a variety of photographic equipment,a miniature illuminating gas plant, a hydraulic turbine, and much, much more. 

More of the same entertaining illustrated how-to stories. From 1919! Your copy is waiting. Just say the word. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 softcover 476 pages 

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The Boy Electrician, 1940
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The Boy Electrician, 1940

If there could be only one book chosen as the boy's book of electricity, it would have to be this one. The first edition appeared in 1913 and there were many to follow. This is the 1940 edition, and I know there were later editions. [More Information Below]

The Boy Electrician, 1940
by Alfred P. Morgan 

If there could be only one book chosen as the boy's book of electricity, it would have to be this one. The first edition appeared in 1913 and there were many to follow. This is the 1940 edition, and I know there were later editions. 

Here, you get chapters entitled magnets and magnetism; static electricity; static electric machines; voltaic cells and batteries; electromagnetism and magnetic inductions; electrical units; wires and accessories; electrical measuring instruments; bells, burglar alarms and annunciators; telegraphy; microphones and telephones; inductions coils; transformers; wireless telegraphy; radio receiving sets; an experimental "wireless" telephone; electric motors; dynamos; an electric railway; miniature lighting; miscellaneous electrical apparatus. 

You may remember having read "The Boy Electrician" when you were a kid. If not, you missed something. You get practical how-to plans and advice to build and have fun with all kinds of electrical equipment. 

You might start with a cork and needle compass, but before long you'll be building a Wimshurst machine, powerful batteries from scratch, galvanometers, voltmeters, ammeters, telegraph keys and sounders, a telephone, a high voltage induction coil, a step-down transformer, wireless telegraphy with a crystal set receiver, vacuum tube receivers including a regenerative, motors and generators, an electric train, a device to convert heat directly into electricity and even a Tesla coil! 

The whole book is heavily illustrated and a joy to read. Remember. This is written for boys. You're not going to get detailed design theory. Morgan keeps the discussion light and fun. But these are great projects. 

You get a boy's classic book. Books like these aren't published anymore. This is worth having. Lots of great experiments, ideas, and teasers to get the imagination going. 

So get off yer butt and get a copy of this. Start building. Even if you sit on the couch, suck a barrel of beer and eat a cubic yard of potato chips like I do anymore, you can still enjoy this. It's fun to read. Get a copy. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 softcover 403 pages 

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Handicraft For Handy Boys, 1911
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Handicraft For Handy Boys, 1911
"Practical Plans for Work and Play with Many Ideas for Earning Money. With nearly six hundred illustrations and working-drawings..." 

by A Neely Hall 

reprinted by Lindsay Publications 

"Practical Plans for Work and Play with Many Ideas for Earning Money. With nearly six hundred illustrations and working-drawings..." 

Neat books for boys... and for old men who dream of being a boy again... This is about snow castles, soap box racers, a home workshop and much more. And beautifully illustrated with drawings and photographs. 

Chapters include the home workshop, tools and home-made shop equipment, elementary manual training, wood finishing, working-drawings, easily made furniture, handy contrivances for the house, a boy's room in an attic, box and barrel furniture, cigar-box toys and gifts, clockwork toys, brass craft, a boy's wireless telegraph outfit, stunts for a boys' vaudeville show, moving pictures, a snow battleship, a coaster and a bob-sled, model aeroplanes, a boy's auto-airship, camping equipment, a home-made punt (boat), a home-made sharpie (boat), pushmobiles and other home-made wagons, bird-houses, houses for pets, a castle club-house and home-made armor, and a boy's band of home-made instruments. 

I'd like to meet any kid who even tried to build half the projects since this book was first published in 1911. This is loaded with great ideas but you'll have to modify some of the plans. Where are you going to get old-time cigar boxes, or wooden barrels, or clockworks? 

But this is a plans book. And a mere skim through the pages was all that it took to convince me that it was worth reprinting. I think you'll agree. It's a bit expensive, but it's a big book and a short press run t'aint cheap. 

Get one. It'll fill your brain with ideas, or memories. Great gift. (especially for yourself...) 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 437 pages. 

No. 22393

 


 

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