BOOKS!!!

There are several books that I really really wanted print and Kindle versions of and there wasn’t such a thing because they were published during my great grandfather’s life. After some research, I found I could apply to Amazon to edit them and be able to have them available for me AND for you!

So far, I have the first two volumes completed of The Boy Mechanic. Inside each are so many projects, as well as a view into the ingenuity of the past. They are now available for sale on Amazon in Kindle version for reading on any device, and one is also available in paperback. I’m working to format both for paperback in hardcover.

The Boy Mechanic Volume I

Click to purchase:

  1. Amazon Paperback or Kindle Copy – US (pending hardcover)
  2. Amazon Paperback or Kindle Copy – Canada (pending hardcover)
Cover Boy Mechanic Vol 1

This first volume of the Boy Mechanic series is an exhaustive collection of building projects and household help hacks. From large detailed plans to build a sailing canoe, to the emergent need to create a quick paper funnel, this book has instructions and detailed diagrams for a wider variety of items. The many contributors have advice on cleaning, constructing, magic, efficiency, and fishing to name just a few of the 700 topics in this vast manual. This volume was originally published in 1913 and reads as both intriguing reference and historical non-fiction. Although you may want to bypass the less relevant directions to create a telephone receiver or a flatiron rest, and you will definitely bypass instructions for projects using mercury and lead, the projects that detail creating kites, performing intricate magic tricks, building motors, homesteading, making your own aquarium, creating a lamp with shade will keep you entertained with the simple ingenuity that can be adapted by the reader for their own circumstance. This edition has: – An interactive title of contents – All 800 illustrations – an introduction detailing the Boy Mechanic series Please take a peek at the table of contents to sample the array of amazing projects within!

Includes
– original introduction history of the Boy Mechanic series
– 800 illustrations

Note: the manuscript was reloaded to Amazon January 12,2022 to update the missing images in the print version. They were always present in the Kindle version. Our deepest apologies for the missing the images in the first print version. This has now been remedied.

The Boy Mechanic Volume II

Click to purchase:

  1. Amazon Kindle Copy – US (Pending paperback and hardcover)
  2. Amazon Kindle Copy – Canada (Pending paperback and hardcover)
Cover Boy Mechanic Vol 2

This annotated second volume of the Boy Mechanic series is an exhaustive collection of building projects and household help hacks. From large detailed plans to build indoor games, small skiff boat, a ferris wheel (!), and hundreds of other projects. This book has instructions and detailed diagrams for a wider variety of items.Even larger than the original volume, this manual has advice on building an emergency compass, making fishing rods, baking bread in sand, to name just a few of the 1000 topics in this vast manual.

This volume was originally published in 1915 and reads as both intriguing reference and historical non-fiction. Although you may want to bypass the less relevant directions to renew carbon paper, creating a telephone stand, or kettle handle support, the projects that detail creating sleds, binding magazines, building, homesteading, making your own irrigation, and extracting a broken screw will keep you entertained with the simple ingenuity that can be adapted by the reader for their own circumstance. This edition has: An interactive title of contents if purchased on kindle – All 925 illustrations- an introduction detailing the Boy Mechanic series.

Present day note: While editing this book, I was often amazed at the ingenuity and also marveled at the safety concerns that would arise in our present day and age with these projects. I could think of many of my eccentric aunts and uncles that this book should never be shown to, and should you be one of those eccentric aunts or uncles looking at purchasing this book, I bear no responsibility for the ideas this book inspires within you. Pondering three separate bobsled-type plans within this book (one monorail?!?), my breath is still held as I imagine my own uncle potentially hurtling my child down the hill on his newly created “project”. So, be warned that 1915 was a different time and be careful out there.

Please take a peek at the table of contents to sample the array of amazing projects within!

  • includes all 925 original illustrations
  • table of contents
  • kindle version: additional interactive alphabetic index
  • new annotated forward with the history of this series

Thank you for your support for these books!

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