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The Hanging Railway 250
Skating Along a Railroad Track 255
Shipping Ore by Monorail Over a Two-Mile Gap . . 257 Feeding Cattle froin Railway Cars to Fatten Them 262
Here Is a New Shortest Road 345
Track Insulation Stops the Trains in This Auto- matic Control System 350
Shipping Eggs Without Breakage 381
Unclogging the Railroads 382
Between Stokes, He Knits for the Red Cross Un- ashamed 409
Saving Man Power in Loading Freight Cars 426
Railroad Kills Many Food Animals 511
Our Annual Coal Drama 530
Focusing the Locomotive Headlight with a New
Adjusting Device 579
Like a Trip to the North Pole Is Railroading in a
BliEzard 595
It's Raining, but the Glass Umbrella Keeps the
Record Book Dry 598
Swinging "Stop" Signal Attracts Your Eye 668
High- Water Street Cars 702
Teaching Railroad Work to Women 709
A Giant Coal Car 716
Have You Use for an Abandoned Locomotive?. . . 752
An Ideal Industrial Locomotive 851
A Tunnel Is Coming. On with the Fresh-Air Mask 863
Chinese Women Working on Railroads 870
Railways That Run Under Water 890
Does a Locomotive Wheel Travel Slower or Faster
Than the Train> 902
Solving the Railroad Problem 904
Turning a Bicycle Into a Railway Hand Car 914
SHIPS AND SHIP BUILDING
A Small Concrete Boat 54
Releasing Life-Boats Safely 59
A Ship of Stone 72
How Can the Distance of a Ship from a Shore
Station Be Estimated ? 193
Lifting a Rowboat Out of the Water 268
Raising a Sunken Ship 392
Launching Concrete Boats Bottom Up 401
Living in a Life-Buoy 422
Corrugated Hull Increases Ship's Speed 429
The "Goofa " Is Now a Modern Side-Wheel Ferry- boat 485
Hiding Ships from Submarines 514
Lack of Safe Harbors on Our Pacific Coast 664
Watertight Compartments to Protect Ships 667
British Dummy Battleships 689
Rolling Down a Ship's Side to Safety 695
Raising a Sunken Ship with Cork 803
How the Boilers of the "Bear ' Were Salved 873
Nothing Troubles This Drydock 902
A Four-Hundred-Foot Ship in a Three-Hundred- Foot Dock 915
SPORTS AND PASTIMES
The Human Torch 3
Houdini Escapes from a Strait-Jacket 61
What Is It? A Naval Architectural Puzzle 116
Shoot Your Streamer with a Gun and Save Your
Arm 119
How to Shoot Birds on the Wing 143
Riding a Moose in the Waters of Rainy Lake 196
Practicing Golf at Home 233
You Don't Spear Eels in Winter — You Hook 'Em . 249
We Fish for the Clam with Dynamite 263
Two Hundred- Yard Drives in Your Parlor 277
Fish Bowl with Folding Stand for the Magician. . 281
Protective Helmet for Children 324
The Human Polar Bears 369
Sailing on a Macadam Road 380
Hobby Horse Racing 380
Motorcycling Without a Sidecar Wheel 381
Twentieth Century Marionettes 396
Canned Music for the Hindus 421
The Nasal Flute 42 1
Your Outdoor Shooting 438
Listen to the Nose Flute of the Filipino 487
A Bazooka Is a Musical Wimwam 521
They Carried Stoves in Their Arms and Kept from
Freezing 559
The Aerautomotricycle 561
A Phonograph for Lazy People 574
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Here s the Honest Deal Dice Box 574
Novel Application of the Service Flag idea on a
Girl's Belt
"Let's Build a Bicycle Track" — And TheyJDid An Industrious Whittltr Made This Endless Chain
Out of a Board
Making a Coaster from Roller Skates
They Hung Little Jessie on the Clothesline to Dry 674 Learning Languages v ith F laying-cards . . 674
The Weight of This-Duml: bell Can Be Changed '. '. '. 679
Swimming Harness for Kiddies 594
A Camp Kitchenette . 694
A Help in Studying Geometry 59^
A Toy Tank ^qq
Shooting Hawks from a Motorcycle \ , 704
■■■^"•iking Believe" to Learn History 730
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��The College-Trained Elephant ] ' ^ 734
Using Watch as a Compass ' 734
Bath-Tub Submarines Tid
Catching Fish Without the Use of Hook or Net . ' 738
Place-Finding on Maps by New Device 744
Here's the Way to Acquire Pickford Curls. ....... 749
Mercury Fishing Line 755
Tree-House in Massachusetts 757
Cut the String, Blindfolded, and Win Tobacco . . . . 824
Modern Camp Comforts 826-27
Aquaplane Racing Full of Genuine Thrills 831
A Giant Strawberry Shortcake 832
Combining Two Favorite Sports — Croquet and
Pool g34
Teams of Motor-Cycles Have a Tug-of-War 836
Ornamental Concrete Pools Take Place of Old
Swimming Hole 339
This Tobacco Pipe Is Built! Like a Cornet, but Isn't
Musical 847
A Baseball Base Which Moves When It Is Hit . '. 847 Deep-Sea Fishing with ja Little Submarine. ...... 857
Handless — And Yet a Chalmpion Billiardist 868
Practicing the Head-Hold with a Wooden-Headed
Adversary 879
Railways That Run Under Water 890
Spitball Myths '.'.'.'.'.... 900
Giant Kite for the Crown Prince of Sunny Japan. 903
New Underwater Bicycle 909
A Garden Barbecue 925
Open Canoe Cruising 927
Wing Attachments on Shoes to Aid the Swimmer 930 Combination Camp Kitchen Cabinet and "Table. . 934
MISCELLANY
The Smallest Fountain Pen in the World
Fireproof Leggings for the Foundry Worker
Lengthening the Period of Usefulness of the Comb Little Sweat Band Makes Big Leather Leak
A Phonograph Cover
Ex-Garden Hose Now Dulls Los Angeles Truck
Thuds
No Passing Traffic Can Interfere with This Police-
n^an's View
How to Tie a Steel Cable in a "Jug-Handle" Knot
A Portable Fire Escape
A Stock for Traitors
The World's Largest Check
A Street Pulpit
Busying Men in Winter _ '
Visible Typewriting Made Invisible
The Stormy Weather Hat
Mr. Chinaman Must Have His 'Melican Cigarette Concrete Flower Boxes to Protect Exposed Tree
Roots
Mooring the Rotted Telephone Pole to Prolong Its
Usefulness
This Purse Will Teach Your Boy to Save
Banana Fiber for Bags
A Rescue Ladder for Treacheious Ice
If There Is a Shortage of Coal This Winter. Burn
Wood
The Wigs of the Future May Be Made of Glass . A Sausage Dealer Out-Pigs the Pig in Hungry Berlin There Has Been a Shortage of Coal in Italy I- ver
Since 1913
A Shirt Worth Two Thousand Dollars. .
An t-ight-Day Watch
A Clock with Works Encased in a Huge Log.
Guns of Ice That Fired Real Powder . .
At Last the Egg Has Broken into Art
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