ILLUSTRATIONS
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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
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