2-Set: The Boy Mechanic & The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys (The Boy Mechanic 200 Classic Things To Build, The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys 159 Games, Toys, Tricks, and other Amusements)

BOY MECHANIC 200 CLASSIC THINGS TO BUILD - It's vintage boyhood and a miscellany of marvelous ideas: from kites and toboggans to workbenches and birdhouses, this collection of projects from Popular Mechanics' issues of long ago captures all the appeal of American ingenuity at the start of the last century. 272 Pages With the rawest of materials, a minimum of technology, and a maximum of ingenuity, men and boys in the early 1900s dedicated themselves to crafting wonderful items, both practical and fanciful. It was a highly valued skill that revealed the measure of a man, and Popular Mechanics honored it and led the way in instructing these handy creators. Take a look back at those simpler, good old days-and at what we may have lost in our high-tech era-through these engaging projects, all published in the magazine during the first two decades of the 20th century. Inveterate do-it-yourselfers will be astonished at the resourcefulness required to build a stove for a canoe and even a houseboat. BOY MECHANIC MAKES TOYS, 159 GAMES, TOYS, TRICKS, AND OTHER AMUSEMENTS - It's vintage fun! This follow-up to The Boy Mechanic-Popular Mechanics' collection of can-do ingenuity from the early 1900s-features more than 200 unique toys and games that anyone with a basic tool kit will want to make, plus the unusual and attractive rounded, flexibound format. 272 Pages Charmingly designed to capture that old-fashioned flavor, every imaginative project remains as engaging today as ever, with its appeal fully intact. There's amusement for little kids, including a toy donkey that nods and wags its tail; a child's playhouse and a miniature windmill; magic tricks, such as an "X-Ray" pack of cards and mystery coin box; items for the great outdoors, which range from a homebuilt canoe to a diving tower; plus gizmos and gadgets, "scien-terrific" motors and engines, and entertaining objects for an older child to create and play with.