Author: Popular Mechanics Co
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048649117X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Drawn from the best of Popular Mechanics magazines from the 1910s and 20s, these vintage projects feature a tremendous range of possibilities -- model airplanes, greeting cards, a motion-picture camera, a radiophone, motor-driven sleds, and more. Step-by-step instructions include charming drawings and photos. Girls and boys will love these antique projects, and adults will appreciate their nostalgic charm.
Projects for the Young Mechanic
Author: Popular Mechanics Co
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048649117X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Drawn from the best of Popular Mechanics magazines from the 1910s and 20s, these vintage projects feature a tremendous range of possibilities -- model airplanes, greeting cards, a motion-picture camera, a radiophone, motor-driven sleds, and more. Step-by-step instructions include charming drawings and photos. Girls and boys will love these antique projects, and adults will appreciate their nostalgic charm.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048649117X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Drawn from the best of Popular Mechanics magazines from the 1910s and 20s, these vintage projects feature a tremendous range of possibilities -- model airplanes, greeting cards, a motion-picture camera, a radiophone, motor-driven sleds, and more. Step-by-step instructions include charming drawings and photos. Girls and boys will love these antique projects, and adults will appreciate their nostalgic charm.
The Boy Mechanic
Author: Popular Mechanics
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486119947
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This nostalgic flashback to a simpler time is filled with illustrated projects that range from the everyday (birdhouse, bean shooter) to the unusual (ice glider, magnetic theater).
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486119947
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This nostalgic flashback to a simpler time is filled with illustrated projects that range from the everyday (birdhouse, bean shooter) to the unusual (ice glider, magnetic theater).
The Boy Electrician
Author: Alfred Powell Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Boy Mechanic
Every Man His Own Mechanic
Author: Francis Chilton-Young
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carpentry
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carpentry
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Can You Tell an Ostrich from an Emu?
Author: Buffy Silverman
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 0761388044
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A huge bird with a long neck and big eyes looks up from eating. Then it runs away on its strong legs. Did you just see an ostrich? Or was it an emu? These animals look very similar, but they are different. Read this book to become an expert at telling these look-alikes apart. Learn the fascinating differences between similar animals in the Animal Look-Alikes series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 0761388044
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A huge bird with a long neck and big eyes looks up from eating. Then it runs away on its strong legs. Did you just see an ostrich? Or was it an emu? These animals look very similar, but they are different. Read this book to become an expert at telling these look-alikes apart. Learn the fascinating differences between similar animals in the Animal Look-Alikes series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!
Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists
Author: Dustyn Roberts
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071741682
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Get Your Move On! In Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists, you'll learn how to successfully build moving mechanisms through non-technical explanations, examples, and do-it-yourself projects--from kinetic art installations to creative toys to energy-harvesting devices. Photographs, illustrations, screen shots, and images of 3D models are included for each project. This unique resource emphasizes using off-the-shelf components, readily available materials, and accessible fabrication techniques. Simple projects give you hands-on practice applying the skills covered in each chapter, and more complex projects at the end of the book incorporate topics from multiple chapters. Turn your imaginative ideas into reality with help from this practical, inventive guide. Discover how to: Find and select materials Fasten and join parts Measure force, friction, and torque Understand mechanical and electrical power, work, and energy Create and control motion Work with bearings, couplers, gears, screws, and springs Combine simple machines for work and fun Projects include: Rube Goldberg breakfast machine Mousetrap powered car DIY motor with magnet wire Motor direction and speed control Designing and fabricating spur gears Animated creations in paper An interactive rotating platform Small vertical axis wind turbine SADbot: the seasonally affected drawing robot Make Great Stuff! TAB, an imprint of McGraw-Hill Professional, is a leading publisher of DIY technology books for makers, hackers, and electronics hobbyists.
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071741682
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Get Your Move On! In Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists, you'll learn how to successfully build moving mechanisms through non-technical explanations, examples, and do-it-yourself projects--from kinetic art installations to creative toys to energy-harvesting devices. Photographs, illustrations, screen shots, and images of 3D models are included for each project. This unique resource emphasizes using off-the-shelf components, readily available materials, and accessible fabrication techniques. Simple projects give you hands-on practice applying the skills covered in each chapter, and more complex projects at the end of the book incorporate topics from multiple chapters. Turn your imaginative ideas into reality with help from this practical, inventive guide. Discover how to: Find and select materials Fasten and join parts Measure force, friction, and torque Understand mechanical and electrical power, work, and energy Create and control motion Work with bearings, couplers, gears, screws, and springs Combine simple machines for work and fun Projects include: Rube Goldberg breakfast machine Mousetrap powered car DIY motor with magnet wire Motor direction and speed control Designing and fabricating spur gears Animated creations in paper An interactive rotating platform Small vertical axis wind turbine SADbot: the seasonally affected drawing robot Make Great Stuff! TAB, an imprint of McGraw-Hill Professional, is a leading publisher of DIY technology books for makers, hackers, and electronics hobbyists.
How Cars Work
Author: Tom Newton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966862300
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
How Cars Work is a completely illustrated primer describing the 250 most important car parts and how they work. This mini test book includes wonderfully simple line drawings and clear language to describe all the automotive systems as well as a glossary, index, and a test after each chapter. How Cars Work provides the basic vocabulary and mechanical knowledge to help a reader talk intelligently with mechanics understand shop manuals, and diagnosis car problems. Tom Newton guides the reader with a one topic per page format that delivers information in bite size chunks, just right for teenage boys. How Cars Work was the most stolen book at Kennedy High School in Richmond California! Teachers like our title and so do librarians. The History channel, Modern Marvels-2000, Actuality Productions, Inc is using How Cars Work to train staff for a documentary on automobiles.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966862300
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
How Cars Work is a completely illustrated primer describing the 250 most important car parts and how they work. This mini test book includes wonderfully simple line drawings and clear language to describe all the automotive systems as well as a glossary, index, and a test after each chapter. How Cars Work provides the basic vocabulary and mechanical knowledge to help a reader talk intelligently with mechanics understand shop manuals, and diagnosis car problems. Tom Newton guides the reader with a one topic per page format that delivers information in bite size chunks, just right for teenage boys. How Cars Work was the most stolen book at Kennedy High School in Richmond California! Teachers like our title and so do librarians. The History channel, Modern Marvels-2000, Actuality Productions, Inc is using How Cars Work to train staff for a documentary on automobiles.
The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys
Author: Popular Mechanics
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781588166395
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Intended as much for entertainment as instruction, contains toys and games that were originally featured in the pages of Popular mechanics, some dating back to 100 years ago.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781588166395
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Intended as much for entertainment as instruction, contains toys and games that were originally featured in the pages of Popular mechanics, some dating back to 100 years ago.
Cool Sewing for Kids
Author: Alex Kuskowski
Publisher: Checkerboard Library
ISBN: 9781624033117
Category : Sewing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents the basics of fiber arts, as well as the first steps of how to sew.
Publisher: Checkerboard Library
ISBN: 9781624033117
Category : Sewing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents the basics of fiber arts, as well as the first steps of how to sew.