Month: February 2006

Practical Projects for the Handy Man…

Practical Projects for the Handy Man…

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 […]

Things To Make…(free book)

Things To Make…(free book)

Wayn3w pointed out this great ebook from the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation – “Things To Make by Archibald Williams – Whether you simply want to travel back into the mind of a young boy at the beginning of the twentieth century, or want to try your hand at some interesting projects in carpentry, machinery, […]