The Boy's Book Of Mechanical Models | by William Bushnell Stout
This book includes ideas that have been collected during a number of years of work among boys. During these years the writer has discovered that a great many of the articles usually described for boys to make are very often impractical on account of the small size of the boy's pocketbook. All of those described in this book can be made from things picked up around the house, at no expense to the maker, while almost all of the toys are constructed with an ordinary cigar box as a base.
| Title | The Boy's Book Of Mechanical Models |
| Author | William Bushnell Stout |
| Publisher | Little Brown and Company |
| Year | 1916 |
| Copyright | 1916, Little Brown and Company |
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Showing Toys Made By Boys From Descriptions Included in this book.
Foreword- THE ideas included in this book have been collected during a number of years of work among boys. During these years the writer has discovered that a great many of the articles usually described for bo...
- How To Make A Mechanical Duck
- THIS is shown in perspective in Figure 1, and in section in Figure 2. You will better understand the principle from Figure 2. Here are shown the wooden pieces which make up the body part of the duck f...
- How To Make A Cigar-Box Automobile
- IT'S surprising how quick people were to take up the automobile as soon as somebody really got down to work at it. It was a long time ago, though, years before the use of railroads, that people first ...
- How To Make A Model Motorbus
- THE London Motorbus, originally a real institution, has degenerated into a military unit. It is none the less fun, however, to construct a model motorbus out of a cigar box, using cracker-box wood for...
- How To Make A Cigar-Box Railway Line
- I HAVE already told you how to make a toy automobile, but this is going a step farther, being a description of a complete railway line, with its engine, truck, freight cars, and coaches, all made from...
- How To Make A Cigar Box Dump Car
- Ever own a railroad? I did once. It ran the whole length of our cellar and would carry freight in great shape. It wasn't a passenger line, and there was no real locomotive, but it provided lots of fun...
- How To Make A Cigar Box Monorail
- SOME years ago a man in England invented a new kind of railway, one which runs on only one track, which is called the Gyroscope Railway. What is a gyroscope? As near as I can explain it to you, it ...
- How To Make An Air Line Railway
- IF there is a boy just across the court from your flat, or in the next house, to whom you want to send messages or any light merchandise, here is a railway that runs on a string or cord that will furn...
- How To Make A Side-Hill Railway
- THE air-line railway just described can be used for a cash carrier in connection with your toy scales and cash register in your toy store, or can be used for a regular air-line railway outdoors, runni...
- How To Make Toy Scales
- IT is as natural for boys to want to make things as it is for girls to play with dolls,- a thing the boy abhors. Nearly every man, if he just thinks back a little, can remember how he made, or tried t...
- How To Make A Toy Cash Register
- AFTER you have finished making the toy scales, you probably will want a cash register to record the amount of the sale. It is not hard to make a model cash register, as shown in the drawing, planned o...
- How To Make A Telephone Line
- DID you ever make a tin can telephone ? Simply take two empty tin cans and punch a hole in the center of the bottom of each. Run a string through the holes and tie a button or a large knot inside so t...
- How To Make A Toy Phonograph
- HERE is a toy phonograph that will actually play real music, and you will also have the fun of making it yourself in your own workshop. You will have to buy the records and the needles, but all the ot...
- How To Make A Writing Telegraph
- NO doubt some of those who read this article saw at the St. Louis Fair the wonderful electric writing telegraph, or Telautograph, as it is called. Here a man sat at a desk with a pencil and wrote...
- How To Make A Toy Crane
- THERE is no end to the toys and useful articles that can be made from ordinary cigar boxes of various sizes, the number and variety being limited only by the ingenuity of the maker. One of the simples...
- How To Make A Toy Trip Hammer
- To understand how it works, look at the small drawing. Here the square wooden shaft is shown at S with the wheel W fastened at the far end. By making this wheel W grooved, you can run the hammers with...
- How To Make An X-Ray Machine
- STEP up, ladies and gentlemen! Step up! Here you see the greatest wonder of the century! The X-rays, the X-rays! You can see right through your hand, through a board, through this thick city directory...
- How To Make A Shadow Picturescope
- BETWEEN the fun you have in cutting out the pictures, blacking and pasting them up, - as I shall direct, - into shadow pictures or transparencies, and the added fun you have looking at them afterw...
- How To Make A Model Grain Elevator
- YOU boys who are making toys that operate along the same lines as their larger prototypes will no doubt be interested in this plan of a model grain elevator. Some day you may own a large one, and then...
- How To Make Model Elevators
- THERE are all kinds of elevators, some for passengers, some for freight, and some for grain, but the next one I'm going to tell you about is for freight, and light freight at that. You might even call...
- How To Make A Crank Elevator
- First take some laths, or if you can't get them, cut some sticks about an inch and a half wide from the side of a cracker box or some such thin wood. Cut two of these sticks a little longer than yo...
- How To Make A Hydraulic Elevator
- Another elevator just like this as to guide strings and general mechanism can be made to work by water power, so that you will not need to turn a crank or do anything but work levers to make the car g...
- How To Make A Perpetual Calendar
- HERE is a new kind of calendar that will last for years, so far as correct showing of dates is concerned, while to change it to the new date every day it is only necessary to pull down a small lever. ...
- How To Make A Threshing Machine
- I REMEMBER one autumn spent on a farm during threshing time and what fun we boys had riding loads and making our own threshine machine. Perhaps some of my readers would like to make one too, so her...
- How To Make A Walking Horse
- ALL kinds of things can be made from cigar boxes, but the toy described next is one I used to make for some of the smaller boys about birthday time, and it always gave them a great-deal of amusement. ...
- How To Make A Walking Policeman
- The body part of this policeman is cut of thin cigar-box wood after the pattern of Figures I and 2, which can be traced off or enlarged by squares to fit the piece of wood you have. Do not try to make...
- How To Make The Tendulum Of Galileo
- AWAY back in the year 1564 a coy was born in Pisa, Italy, who could do almost anything he started out to do. He had gifts, it seemed, in all directions, and he could practically choose in which line h...
- How To Make A Siren Whistle
- DID you ever hear a siren whistle, - the kind that goes from a low note to a high note and then down again as it blows? Would you like to make one? First take a paper roll - or maybe you haven't an...
- How To Make A German "Thur-Zither"
- SEVERAL summers ago I stopped for a few days at the home of an American dentist in Germany. My host was a pleasant and entertaining gentleman, and his home was full of knickknacks and curios picked up...
- How To Make A Gutter Water Wheel And Dam
- IN the days of melting snows and frequent showers there are plenty of places where a boy can rig up a fine water wheel which can be made of cigar-box wood and which will give considerable power. The d...
- How To Make A Water Rocker
- I GOT the inspiration for this toy from seeing a patent plate washer in a photographer's shop, and the mechanical movement was so interesting that I went to work and made a toy to work on the same pri...
- Some Interesting Mechanical Movements
- I Wish that every one of my boy readers could enjoy himself for a day in that marvelous place, the South Kensington Museum, where are exhibited all kinds of machines costing hundreds of thousands of d...
- How To Make Ocean Fun Ashore
- Note. This toy was invented by the author while watching a crowd playing the game of Shovel board on board the S. S. Adriatic. ASTEAMSHIP at sea is not the most quiet place in the world for a p...
- How To Make Fighting Wild Irishmen
- I WAS over in Ireland once on an Orange Day, and the people were certainly having a great time. On this particular day another young fellow and myself were on our bicycles in the northern part of the ...
- How To Make A Fighting Rooster Toy
- AFTER you have made the Fighting Wild Irishman out of cigar-box wood you will understand very easily how to make the Rooster Fight toy shown in the accompanying drawing. The principle of operation i...
- How To Make A Climbing Bear
- NO toy for a long while has enjoyed such continued popularity as the Teddy Bear. A toy of this kind which will climb a string all by itself merely by alternately pulling and releasing the string, as s...
- How To Make A Wiggle Bug
- THIS toy, when drawn across the floor, wiggles and twists in a lifelike and terrifying manner, and all by the action of a common spool peculiarly fixed. The body of the bug has fastened to it at th...
- How To Make A Wooden Elephant
- BOB EVANS was up against quite a proposition. He had only ten cents and the next day was his little brother's birthday. He wanted to give his little brother a present, but he didn't feel that ten cent...
- How To Make A Submarine Boat
- ANY boy can make a submarine boat of small size which will go down to the bottom of the lake or river and then come up again of itself, as shown in Figure I. The body of this toy is sawed out of in...
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