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INDEX TO VOLUME 88
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An Emergency Tire Made Simply of Rope | 587 |
Vulcanizing Tires with Exhaust Heat | 593 |
A Trouble-Proof Tire | 593 |
An Oil Cup for Auto Springs | 593 |
An Anti-Clogging Oil-Gage | 593 |
A New Way of Driving a Bicycle with a Motor . . | 702 |
Converting an Automobile into an Apartment. . . . | 719 |
The Chair Car—the Latest Development in Stage-coaches | 729 |
A Tomahawk Grease Gun | 731 |
Device Prevents Automobiles from Being Stolen. . | 731 |
How a Second-Hand Automobile Made a Railroad Pay | 732 |
New Automobile Alarm Calls for Help | 753 |
This Grease Cup Keeps Your Hands Clean | 755 |
Converting a Motor-Cycle Into a Tricycle | 757 |
To Keep Your Foot Always on the Accelerator Pedal . . . | 757 |
A Lamp for the Motorist's Glove | 758 |
Improving Automobile Springs | 768 |
Hints to the Motor-Cyclist | 770 |
Fools Automobile Thieves | 780 |
An Automobile-Bed for the Tourist | 870 |
A New Ford Folding Bed | 870 |
Some Ingenious New Accessories for the Touring Car | 870 |
A Glass Hood for Autonnobiles | 871 |
A Handy Automobile Grease-Gun | 871 |
Rain Protector for Automobile Wind-Shield | 871 |
An Electric Automobile Built Like a Drop of Oil | 896 |
What Shall We Do for Gasoline? | 904 |
Curing a Noisy Automobile Hood | 917 |
BOATING | |
The Trolley-Car Boat for Bathers | 725 |
A Wheel-barrow for Canoes | 744 |
The Ozark Float-Boat | 747 |
How to Build and Sail a Small Boat | 765 |
Navigating a River Boat by Sound | 905 |
How to Build and Sail a Small Boat | 929 |
CIVIL ENGINEERING | |
Twelve Million Dollars for Twenty Minutes Train Time | 7 |
An Excavation for a Road Leaves House on Brink | 17 |
Two Bridges with but One Approach | 20 |
A Vast Tank with a Park on Top | 20 |
A Really Greater New York | 60 |
The Longest Pipe Line in America | 93 |
A Gigantic Steel Bridge-Beam | 166 |
Niagara on Tap | 180 |
Lifting a House Over Trees: Sentiment vs. Cost. . | 247 |
The Giant Task of the Subway Diggers | 326 |
Three Slender Wires Form a Bridge | 342 |
A Circular Bridge on Stilts | 377 |
The Bridge that Telephones Built | 403 |
An Elevated Road that Tried to Outstrip a Town. | 421 |
Digging Away the Slides at Panama | 492 |
Amputating Pittsburgh's "Hump" | 532 |
Workmen Shot from Tunnel Through the Bed of a River | 643 |
Rocking a Three-Hundred Foot Tower with Your Hand | 645 |
Spraying Concrete | 665 |
New York's Submarine Subway and How It Was Built | 705 |
Making Money Out of Waste Land with a Stream of Water | 720 |
Panama's Locks Guarded by Chains | 745 |
Using Ice to Lower Heavy Stones | 774 |
A Hint for Draftsmen | 793 |
ELECTRICITY | |
Band Conceits from an Electric Light Bulb | 71 |
Brightening the Baby's Path | 92 |
Saving Steps at Target Practice | 95 |
An Electric Flat Iron Float | 95 |
Electric Heater Resembles Desk Telephones | 104 |
Winter Uses for the Electric Fan | 109 |
Electric Toaster Eliminates Burnt Fingers | 110 |
Electric Candles on a Nine-Story Birthday Cake. . | 169 |
A Sleeping Nest with an Electric Elevator | 185 |
Signal Lights for Traveling Cranes | 228 |
Power from a Floating Water Power Plant | 234 |
Testing Shrapnel Shells in Electric Ovens | 254 |
Something Is Wrong with This Unemotional Phonograph Fire Alarm | 337 |
How to Photograph Electrical Sparks | 348 |
Trimming Veneered Edges by Electricity | 348 |
An Owl Darkens the Town | 369 |
Typewriting Eight Telegrams Over a Single Wire. | 374 |
Can Battery Explosions on Battery Submarines Be Prevented? | 394 |
A Top That Never Stops Spinning | 401 |
What Makes an Electric Lamp-Bulb Glow? | 401 |
The Electric Dog and How He Obeys His Flash-lamp Master | 426 |
Finding the Positive Wire | 454 |
How to Prolong the Life of Battery Cells | 454 |
Springless Electric Bell | 454 |
A Simple but Powerful Arc-Light | 455 |
Making a Master Vibrator for Automobiles | 461 |
Electric Door-Opener for a Garage | 470 |
A Metal-Vapor Light That Is White | 529 |
Telegraphing with the Telephone | 563 |
Detecting Flaws in Steel by X-Ray | 577 |
Storage Battery Hints | 652 |
An Electric Soldering Iron | 626 |
Construction of Unipolar Dynamos | 624 |
The Electromagnetic Hand for Armless Veterans. | 657 |
An Electrically-Lighted Clock | 699 |
A Socket Protecting Knot | 731 |
An Electric Fan Suspended by Its Own Wire | 736 |
Lamp Resistance for Charging Storage Batteries | 781 |
Recharging Worn-out Dry Batteries | 781 |
Automatic Dead-End Switch | 785 |
Making Coils of Resistance Wire for a Small Electric Stove | 788 |
How to Make an Electric Horn | 788 |
Repairing a Burnt-Out Fuse | 788 |
Changing a Telegraph Sounder Into a Relay | 789 |
Substituting a Flashlight for a Door Bell | 789 |
Telephone Line Test Clips Easily Made | 789 |
A Current Reverser for Small Motors | 789 |
Making Over the Lighting System | 795 |
Healing Magic of the Electric Arc | 818 |
Illuminating a Highway with Pockets of Light. . | 905 |
Bird Protection for Electric Lines | 907 |
Making a Simple but Efficient Flasher | 939 |
For Those Midnight Serenaders | 939 |
A Musical Electric Door-Bell | 940 |
Connecting Dissimilar Telephone Lines | 941 |
Connecting Wires with Tinfoil | 941 |
An Efficient Spark-Plug Tester | 941 |
The "Ideal" Battery . | 945 |
The Construction of an Automatic Battery Circuit-Breaker | 947 |
How to Make a Rural Mail Box Alarm | 947 |
Electrical Lighting Device for the Gas-Range. . . . | 948 |
An Electric Weather-Vane Indicator | 948 |
GEOLOGY | |
The Devil's Post Pile | 178 |
Natural Cannonballs | 178 |
Natural Stadium Which Holds One Hundred and Thirty Thousand | 248 |
What Wind and Rain Can Do | 530 |
Fake Gypsum Claims | 573 |
Rock Folded Like Cardboard | 814 |
Strange Mineral Spring Deposit in a Nevada Desert | 897 |
A Strange Spongelike Rock | 903 |
Are Metals Alive? | 912 |
GAMES, PUZZLES. AND OUTDOOR SPORTS | |
Ice Dynamited So Yale Crew May Row | 658 |
Playing Golf on the Roof | 669 |
Ten-Net—An Indoor-Outdoor Game | 705 |
Outdoors Yet Indoors | 726 |
HOME CRAFTSMAN | |
An Extra Drainboard for the Kitchen Sink | 113 |
To Lengthen the Life of a Necktie | 113 |
Wood Box Arrangement Saves Many Steps from the Dining-Room | 113 |
Broom Closet Utilizing Waste Space | 114 |
A Cheap Septic Tank | 114 |
A Craftsman Desk Chair | 115 |
A Serviceable Hot Water Heater Which Can Be Made at Home | 118 |
How a Course Dinner Can Be Served Without a Maid | 118 |
Connecting Block for Bell Wires | 119 |