The Boy Mechanic: Volume II: 1000 Things for Boys To Do with 925 Illustrations

This second volume of the Boy Mechanic series is an exhaustive collection of building projects and household help hacks. From large detailed plans to build indoor games, small skiff boat, a ferris wheel (!), and hundreds of other projects. This book has instructions and detailed diagrams for a wider variety of items.Even larger than the original volume, this manual has advice on building an emergency compass, making fishing rods, baking bread in sand, to name just a few of the 1000 topics in this vast manual.This volume was originally published in 1915 and reads as both intriguing reference and historical non-fiction. Although you may want to bypass the less relevant directions to renew carbon paper, creating a telephone stand, or kettle handle support, the projects that detail creating sleds, binding magazines, building, homesteading, making your own irrigation, and extracting a broken screw will keep you entertained with the simple ingenuity that can be adapted by the reader for their own circumstance. This edition has: An interactive title of contents if purchased on kindle - All 925 illustrations- an introduction detailing the Boy Mechanic series.Present day note: While editing this book, I was often amazed at the ingenuity and also marveled at the safety concerns that would arise in our present day and age with these projects. I could think of many of my eccentric aunts and uncles that this book should never be shown to, and should you be one of those eccentric aunts or uncles looking at purchasing this book, I bear no responsibility for the ideas this book inspires within you. Pondering three separate bobsled-type plans within this book (one monorail?!?), my breath is still held as I imagine my own uncle potentially hurtling my child down the hill on his newly created "project". So, be warned that 1915 was a different time and be careful out there.Please take a peek at the table of contents to sample the array of amazing projects within!includes all 925 original illustrationstable of contentskindle version: additional interactive alphabetic indexnew forward with the history of this series Read more