The Boy's Book of New Inventions

When, with engine throbbing, propellers whirling, and every wire vibrating, the first successful aeroplane shot forward into the teeth of a biting December gale and sailed stead...

Not only the schools but the colleges also have taken up aviation, and nearly every college has its glider club, and the students work many hours making the gliders with which t...

So interested in aviation had our young friend become that he forgot all other inventions in his enthusiasm for flying. He never missed a chance to go to the aviation field, and...

Every effort of the aeroplane inventors these days is bent toward making the power flier useful--a faithful servant to man in his day-to-day life--and to this end greater carryi...

OUR FRIENDS INVESTIGATE NIKOLA TESLA'S INVENTION FOR THE WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF POWER, BY WHICH HE HOPES TO ENCIRCLE THE EARTH WITH LIMITLESS ELECTRICAL POWER, MAKE OCEAN AND...

MACHINES THAT MAKE SIXTEEN TINY PICTURES PER SECOND AND SHOW THEM AT THE SAME RATE MAGNIFIED SEVERAL THOUSAND TIMES--MOTION PICTURES IN SCHOOL--OUR BOY FRIEND SEES THE WHOLE PRO...

With a clear understanding of the mechanism of the various motion-picture machines in mind, we are free to go on with the scientist and our young friend to the exciting times ex...

"That is not very hot now, but we could increase the temperature to about 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit if we tried hard enough," answered the man who, outside of his work, enjoyed b...

"How would you like to have an engine for your motor boat that you could almost cover with a man's derby hat and yet which would give 110 horsepower?" asked the scientist of his...

THE ONE-PIECE HOUSE OF THOMAS A. EDISON, AND OTHER USES OF THE NEWEST AND YET THE OLDEST BUILDING MATERIAL OF CIVILIZED PEOPLES SEEN BY THE BOY AND HIS SCIENTIFIC FRIEND

While we are following the conversations of the scientist and his young friend about new inventions, we must not overlook some of their most interesting times in keeping abreast...

While the inspiring stories of Jack Binns of the steamship _Republic_, and of J. G. Phillips and Harold S. Bride of the ill-fated _Titanic_ are fresh in our minds, it is not nec...

Before we leave our good friend the scientist and his young companion, let us go over a few more of the things about which they talked. To take up all of them would be to prolon...