Re: The Boy Mechanic
- From: Richard <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:22:08 -0600
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:08:14 -0500, Wolf Kirchmeir
<wolfekir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Richard wrote:
>> The Gutenburg project has put this early 1900s book out in .pdf.
>>
>> http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12655/12655-pdf.pdf
>>
>> 17 meg download. Interesting.
>>
>> 1001 ways for someone to kill themselves.
>>
>> Worth a read.
>>
>> Rich
>
>
>I have a reprint of a Popular Mechanics book on sports and pastimes from
>the early 1900s (when radio tubes were still called valves, even in
>America.) Full of instructions on how to build dangerous machinery.
Lindsay publications has a lot more, good stuff, reasonable prices
http://www.lindsaybks.com
Infinite possibilities for committing suicide by various methods.
And this stuff was meant for kids?
(But his metalworking books are some of the best I've ever seen.}
Rich
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