| PAGE |
| A Model Engine, Showing the Principal Working Parts |
Frontispiece |
| Some Useful Wood Working Tools |
3 |
| A Few More Common Wood Working Tools |
5 |
| A Clamp Often Comes in Handy |
7 |
| How Edge Joints Are Made |
17 |
| How Corner Joints Are Made |
19 |
| An Easily Made Work Bench |
20 |
| A Wood Vise for Your Work Bench |
21 |
| A Carpenter’s Tool Chest |
22 |
| The Tray for Your Tool Chest |
23 |
| A Simple and Cheap Sawing Outfit |
25 |
| The Right Way to Use a Hand Scroll Saw |
27 |
| A Hand Scroll Saw Table |
28 |
| Some Necessary Scroll Sawing Tools |
29 |
| Mechanical Masterpieces Made With a Scroll Saw |
31 |
| The Cheapest Foot-power Scroll Saw Made |
32 |
| The Lester Scroll Saw with Turning Lathe Attachment |
33 |
| The Fleetwood Scroll Saw |
34 |
| The Chief Parts of a Turning Lathe |
37 |
| The Cheapest Wood Turning Lathe Made |
39 |
| A Set of Wood Turning Tools |
41 |
| Putting the Rough Wood in the Lathe |
42 |
| The Right Way to Hold a Wood Working Tool |
42 |
| Sizing the Turned Work |
43 |
| Kinds and Sweeps of Carving Tools |
45 |
| Markers for Stamping in Backgrounds |
46 |
| Schemes for Holding Work When Carving |
46 |
| Kinds of Carving |
48 |
| A Carved Watch Case Holder |
49 |
| The Tool Used for Pyrography |
52 |
| An Outfit that Burns Benzine Vapor |
53 |
| How the Tool is Heated |
54 |
| Burning in the Design |
54 |
| The Chief Metal Working Tools |
58 |
| Some Other Metal Working Tools |
59 |
| How Metal Seams and Joints are Made |
70 |
| Materials You Need for Venetian Iron Work |
77 |
| A Useful Bent Iron Toaster |
79 |
| How to Make an Egg Boiler |
80 |
| An Artistic Venetian Plate Holder |
81 |
| A Sconce for a Candle |
83 |
| How to Hold a Repoussé Hammer |
84 |
| A Punch and Punch Designs for Repoussé Work |
85 |
| How to Hold a Repoussé Punch |
85 |
| A Repoussé Candlestick |
87 |
| A Repoussé Photo Frame |
89 |
| The Tools You Need for Pierced Brass Work |
90 |
| A Pierced Brass Candle Shade |
91 |
| A Pierced Brass Toast Sign |
93 |
| Iron Ladle for Melting Pewter |
95 |
| How a Pewter Casting is Made |
96 |
| Home Made Pewter Ware |
98 |
| Tools for Engraving on Metal |
99 |
| How to Hold a Graver |
100 |
| An Engraving on a Sheet of Copper |
101 |
| A Simple Line Drawing of a Man and a Horse |
104 |
| A Simple Outline Drawing of a Boxer and a Race Horse |
105 |
| The Proportions of the Human Body |
106 |
| A Full View of the Face |
107 |
| A Profile View of the Face |
108 |
| The Vanishing Points of a Perspective Drawing |
109 |
| How to Find the Vanishing Point |
110 |
| The Vanishing Points Put to Use |
111 |
| The Drawing Tools You Need |
112 |
| The T Square and Triangle on the Drawing Board |
114 |
| The Plan Drawing for a Box |
115 |
| The Box Drawn in Isometric Perspective |
116 |
| How the Lines for Isometric Drawings are Made |
117 |
| A Sheet of Isometric Drawing Paper |
118 |
| The Proportions of an Isometric Ellipse |
119 |
| How to Draw a Circle with a Thread |
120 |
| How to Draw a Spiral with a Thread |
121 |
| How to Draw an Ellipse with a Thread |
122 |
| How a Pantagraph is Made and Used |
122 |
| How a Reflecting Drawing Board is Made and Used |
123 |
| A Lasting Carbon (Soot) Impression of Your Hand |
125 |
| Silhouettes of Your Great-Grand-pa and Great-Grand-ma (When They Were Young) |
127 |
| A Photo Printing Frame |
131 |
| An Easily Made Pin-hole Camera |
135 |
| The Pin-hole Camera Complete with Cloth and Rubber Bands |
137 |
| Two Cheap and Good Cameras |
139 |
| A Home-made Enlarging Apparatus |
141 |
| A Home-made Enlarging Apparatus |
143 |
| A Home-made Enlarging Apparatus |
144 |
| A Cheaply Made Reflectoscope |
145 |
| A Cross Section Top View of the Reflectoscope |
146 |
| The Reflectoscope Ready for Use |
147 |
| The Parts of a Home-made Magic Lantern |
149 |
| The Magic Lantern Ready for Use |
150 |
| A Photograph of a Coin Made with Radium |
152 |
| One Way to Catch a Cod |
155 |
| How Caricatures are Made |
156 |
| A Model Self-inking Printing Press |
159 |
| An Outfit for a Model Press |
162 |
| The Parts of a Type |
165 |
| How the Type Cases are Arranged |
167 |
| The Upper Case |
168 |
| The Lower Case |
168 |
| How to Hold a Composing Stick |
169 |
| Putting a Stick of Type in the Chase |
170 |
| Tools for Locking Up a Chase |
171 |
| A Frame for Paper Making |
177 |
| How to Cut Boards and Cloth for Book Binding |
179 |
| Sewing on the Muslin Flap |
180 |
| The Bound Book Complete |
181 |
| The Matrix Frame, Chase and Boards for Making Rubber
Stamps |
184 |
| The Type in the Chase. Plaster of Paris Impression in the Matrix Frame |
186 |
| The Matrix with the Rubber Gum in Place Ready to Vulcanize |
187 |
| The Rubber Stamp Ready to Use |
188 |
| Pulling an Impression from the Copygraph |
191 |
| First Steps in Making a Badge |
192 |
| The Badge on a Flat-iron in a Vise. Sinking in the Letters |
193 |
| Steel Letters and Figures for Die Sinking |
194 |
| Last Steps in Making a Badge |
195 |
| A Burning Brand of Iron or Copper |
197 |
| Stencil Letters and Stencils |
199 |
| Glass Cutters |
204 |
| The Right Way to Hold a Diamond Point Glass Cutter |
205 |
| How to Cut a Pane of Glass |
205 |
| A Cutter for Glass Tubes |
207 |
| A Circular Glass Cutter |
208 |
| Kinds of Bunsen Burners |
210 |
| Bordering the End of a Tube |
211 |
| Sealing Off the End of a Tube |
212 |
| How to Make a Hole in a Tube |
212 |
| Welding Two Tubes Together. Making a T Tube |
213 |
| A Regular Blow-Pipe |
214 |
| Cross Section of a Home-made Blow-pipe |
215 |
| The Glass Blowing Arrangement Ready to Use |
216 |
| A Regular Foot Bellows |
217 |
| First Steps in Blowing a Glass Bulb |
218 |
| Making a Thick Ring of Glass |
218 |
| Last Step in Blowing a Glass Bulb |
219 |
| Part of the Apparatus for Sand Blast Etching |
220 |
| Sand Blast Apparatus Put Together Ready for Etching |
221 |
| Etching Glass with Acid |
223 |
| A Policeman’s Puzzle, or Now Will You Be Good |
228 |
| Plans for the Automobile Truck |
229 |
| The Automobile Truck Ready to Run |
230 |
| Plans for a Swell Coaster |
231 |
| The Coaster Ready to Ride On |
232 |
| Plans for the Nifty Wheelbarrow. The Barrow Ready to
Wheel |
234 |
| Plans for the High-low Swing |
236 |
| The Swing Ready to Swing Low, Swing High |
237 |
| Ride a Stick Horse to Banbury Cross |
238 |
| Plans for a Pony and Cart. The Pony and Cart When Done |
240 |
| How the Life-like Goose is Made |
241 |
| Goosie, Goosie Gander, Where Shall I Wander |
242 |
| The Dancing Sambo |
243 |
| The Mechanism of the Dancing Sambo |
244 |
| The Wireless Pup, the Slot in the Floor of the Dog House |
245 |
| The Back End of the Dog House |
246 |
| The Spanker with Electric Solenoid Control |
247 |
| Cross Section Side View of the Wireless Pup Ready for Action |
248 |
| The Front End View of the Wireless Pup House |
249 |
| When You Call the Wireless Pup or Clap Your Hands He Comes Out of His Dog House in a Hurry |
250 |
| The Musical Coin |
253 |
| How to Hold the Musical Coin to Spin It |
254 |
| The Chopin Tomato Can |
255 |
| The Musical Glasses |
257 |
| The Harp of a Thousand Thrills |
258 |
| How to Play the Harp |
259 |
| Parts of a Musical Push Pipe |
261 |
| How the Push Pipe is Played |
263 |
| A Xylophone. The Bars are Made of Wood |
264 |
| A Tubaphone. The Bars are Made of Metal Tubes |
265 |
| The Cathedral Chimes |
266 |
| The Harp of Aeolus |
268 |
| Plans for an Egyptian Fiddle |
271 |
| How the Bow is Made |
272 |
| How the Fiddle is Played |
273 |
| How an Easel is Made |
276 |
| First Principles of Cartooning |
278 |
| Three Simple Cartoons that You Can Do |
279 |
| The Oracle of Amor, or Are You in Love? |
280 |
| The Mystic Fountain |
282 |
| Making Hydrogen Chloride Gas |
283 |
| The Vicious Soap Bubbles |
285 |
| The Uncanny Wheel |
287 |
| The Electrified Papers |
291 |
| A Simple Wireless Demonstration Set |
294 |
| Cross Section of the Coherer Showing Its Construction |
295 |
| The Parts of the Hand Named According to Science |
296 |
| The Parts of the Hand Named According to Palmistry |
298 |
| Working Drawings for the Demonstration Steam Engine. Cross Section Side View of the Engine |
302 |
| End View of the Engine. The Crank Shaft. The Rocker Arm |
304 |
| Top View of the Engine |
306 |
| The Steam Engine Ready to Demonstrate |
309 |