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This is a play-book and not a text-book of engineering a book full of fun, not fun at the expense of another, but the real fun and joy of making things. It is characteristic of the real American boy to design and fashion things with his own hands. To be sure, the creative instinct is more conspicuous in some than in others, but, be it apparent or latent, the instinct is really there in every boy a... More

This is a play-book and not a text-book of engineering a book full of fun, not fun at the expense of another, but the real fun and joy of making things. It is characteristic of the real American boy to design and fashion things with his own hands. To be sure, the creative instinct is more conspicuous in some than in others, but, be it apparent or latent, the instinct is really there in every boy and needs but the proper stimulus to bring it into active evidence. It is this stimulus that the following pages seek to furnish. Engineering is a very broad term that covers many fields of human activity. Obviously, they cannot all be treated in detail within the covers of a single volume; but the purpose of this book is to offer practical suggestions. In other words, the object is to develop the boys own ingenuity and resourcefulness. The chapters on Mechanical Engineering tell how to construct a workshop and simple foot-power machine tools. This furnishes the boy with an excellent equipment, and if he will use his faculties he will become a fair or an expert mechanic. Under the subject of Surveying directions are given for the construction of simple instruments with practical illustrations of their use. They furnish 3J he boy with the rudiments of this branch of Engineering nd are calculated to stimulate his interest further.
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