RSSThe American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It
NickTASC writes - "Perfect for all makers that enjoy reading on a lazy day. 441 pages of projects from 1882 aimed at young boys looking for out door fun. Way too many projects to list, but a few of the chapters cover: War Kites, Home-made fishing tackle, Stocking and keeping a marine aquarium, Underwater telescopes, Rigging and Sailing small boats, taxidermy, and the creation of snow forts. For $9.71 it's definitely within any maker's budget."
Amazon & Duluth trading have it in stock...
Related: American Girls Handy Book.
Also, see our mention of the American Boy's Handy Book in MAKE volume 01 Heirloom Technology, Finding the technology of the future from the forgotten ideas of the past by Tim Anderson - (subscriber access here).
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Feb 25, 2006 08:59 PM
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Project Gutenberg has some interesting books, too, like: Things to Make
Another great book in the same vein is Practical Projects for the Handy Man.
It's an amazing collection of Popular Mechanics projects published in 1913. Amazon claims that it's out of print (but potentially available), and I encountered my first copy in a Cracker Barrel.
The book should be in the public domain, if it was copyrighted before 1922. Any Makers out there who have a copy can contribute scans of the pages to Distributed Proofreaders and let the community produce a free, publicly-distributed online version (with fewer typos than regular OCR).
And while you're at it, go and proofread a few pages of 19th Century Scientific American at DP, as well.
Me, I'm scanning and uploading the whole International Library of Technology series, including electrician, automotive repair, masonry and structural engineering texts from the 1900s....
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