SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS 



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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS 



Reading suggestions 



Bond, With the Men Who Do Things (Scientific Am. 



Pub.) 



Parkman, Conquests of Invention (Century) 

 Talbot, All About Aircraft of Today (Funk) 

 U. S. Bureau of Education, Bulletin No. 38, Alain- 

 streets of the Nation 

 Homans, Automobile Handbook (Sully) 

 Darrows, Boys' Own Book of Great Inventions (Mac- 



millan) 



Moffett, Careers of Dangers and Daring (Century) 

 Reed, Railway Engines of the World (Oxford) 

 Bryan, Aerial Transportation (Anderson Press) 

 Collins, Aviation and All About It (Appleton) 

 Garber, Building and Flying Model Aircraft (Ron- 

 ald) 



Hawks, Romance of Transport (Crowell) 

 Jackson, The Book of the Locomotive (Longmans) 

 Jackson, The Romance of the Railway (McClelland 



& Stewart) 



Kneen, Everyman's Book of Flying (Stokes) 

 Klemin, // You Want to Fly (Coward-McCann) 

 Van Metre, Trains, Tracks, and Travel (Simmons- 

 Boardman) 



Reports which may be prepared 



1. The lives and works of the Wright brothers 



2. The life and work of Robert Fulton 



3. The life and work of Henry Ford 



4. A survey of the transportation facilities of your 

 own locality 



5. The history of aviation 



6. The invention and development of steam en- 

 gines 



7. The history of the development of ships since the 

 time of Columbus 



8. The development of submarines 



9. The development of aviation in the United 

 States 



10. Historic dirigibles 



11. The history of the dirigibles 



12. The dirigible airlines of the world 



13. The history of the compass 



14. How direction and position are told at sea 



15. Flying blind 



16. The development of safety devices for air travel 



17. The automatic pilot used on airplanes 



18. The development of the streamlined train 



19. The streamlined automobile. 



Great scientists and inventors you should know about 



1 . James Watt 



2. Robert Fulton 



3. Wright brothers 



4. Henry Ford 



5. Archimedes 



Investigations and things to do 



1. Set up an electric motor and demonstrate how it 

 works. 



2. Make a toy model airplane and demonstrate it. 



3. Make a small sailboat. 



4. Make toy water wheels to demonstrate the dif- 

 ferent types. 



5. Examine a toy electric train. Study the construc- 

 tion of the engine. 



