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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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