I LOVE Project Gutenberg and just going out to see what’s there to read:
Today I turned up a great find:
The Boy Mechanic: volume 1 by Popular Mechanics:
Among the truly awsome projects for boys to make:
A shower for under $1
A Canon
How to make a three way cock for small model work
And I haven’t even made it halfway through the book!
COOL!
Thanks for the heads-up!
I’m gonna download it right now.
Waaaay cool!
Except for the part where it’s only for BOYS.
…myra
A three way cock?
I may have to change my user name.
I love how it start right off encouraging children to build gliders out of scrap lumber and leap from high cliffs over rushing rivers and fly headlong into oncoming trains.
And it’s not just for boys! It’s also got handy gadgets you can make for the girls to help them do their cooking and cleaning.
Oh, you know you want to say it:
Band Name!
Hey, that sounds pretty cool. Got nothin’ else to do. 
I think my favorite so far is encouraging kids to mix cyanide in with other dangerous chemicals for home use.
Woo! Anybody top that one?
Dunno. Depends if you shoot your sister or not.
How about this one? “The snow house of the Eskimo is probably the unhealthiest of buildings made by any savage to live in.”