# How to become an inventor

Author: Warford, Aaron A.

Genre: Category: Science - Physics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72892

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=How+to+become+an+inventor+Warford&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Nothing is more useful to a youth than to be able to do a little carpentering. To be handy with a chisel and saw, a nail and a hammer, saves many a dollar in the course of the year. If you call in a carpenter for a little work he is sure to spin out a “regular job.” I remember once buying some oak saplings, which cost me fifteen cents a stick; and wanting to build a summer-house, I required eight of them to be sawn through, so I applied to a carpenter, and the sticks were cut, but, to my astonishment, four dollars was charged for this little “job,” although the wood cost me only one dollar and thirty cents. I found out afterwards that the proper price for sawing would have amounted to abo...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-become-an-inventor-72892/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-become-an-inventor-72892/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-become-an-inventor-72892/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-become-an-inventor-72892/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-become-an-inventor-72892/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-become-an-inventor-72892/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-to-become-an-inventor-72892/chapters/7/index.md)