Take a fun look into history with this beautifully illustrated book about a home workshop and much more. Chapters include the home workshop, tools and home-made shop equipment, elementary manual training, wood finishing, working-drawings, easily made furniture, handy contrivances for the house, a boy's room in an attic, box and barrel furniture, cigar-box toys and gifts, clockwork toys, brass craft, a boy's wireless telegraph outfit, stunts for a boys' vaudeville show, moving pictures, a snow battleship, a coaster and a bob-sled, model aeroplanes, a boy's auto-airship, camping equipment, a home-made punt (boat), a home-made sharpie (boat), pushmobiles and other home-made wagons, bird-houses, houses for pets, a castle club-house and home-made armor, and a boy's band of home-made instruments. This book is loaded with great ideas and plans but you may have to modify some of the plans, since it was first published in 1911 and it may be difficult finding old-time cigar boxes, or wooden barrels, or clockworks?

437 pages, over 340 photos & illustrations. Paperback