Keeping with this weekend’s theme of old Maker books – Practical Projects for the Handy Man from Popular Mechanics 1913 – The book contains over 700 practical projects (and over 800 illustrations) with instructions for making kites, steam engines, cameras, toasters, swimming pools, lanterns, sundials, hammocks, model boats, and much more. Ingenious writes – “It’s an amazing collection of Popular Mechanics projects…Amazon claims that it’s out of print (but potentially available) and I encountered my first copy in a Cracker Barrel.” Link.
I scored one on Ebay for $10 (total!) – here are some others…
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I found copies at http://dogbert.abebooks.com for $5 with shipping in USA.
Here is the search I used:
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&y=13&tn=Practical+Projects+for+the+Handy+Man&x=43
oh man! i was THISCLOSE to posting about this book – i saw a ton of them at one of those “BOOK SALE” stores that creep into town overnight and stick around for a couple of weeks. they had a number of different titles in this series there, but most were about pig or horse farming.
i have another book in the same series about inventive and DIY farm devices
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558214321/002-0581590-4031209?v=glance&n=283155 here it is