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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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