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Wren birdhouse plans – Wrens raise two broods each year, and for each brood an apartment is required because wrens do not use the same nest twice. In fact, the...

How to Make a Self-Setting Rabbit Trap Secure a good-sized box, say, 1 ft. high, 1-1/2 ft. wide, and 3 ft. long; and to the bottom, about 10 in. from...

How to Build a Canoe – Wood and Canvas Canoe Plans – excerpt from the book “The Scientific American Boy” by A. Russell Bond A strip of spruce 1 inch...

The baby in the picture hasn’t been born yet. It is still lying inside its mother’s womb.How could a photograph like this have been taken? The photograph was taken using...

More energy reaches earth from the sun than could be converted by millions of power stations. The sun’s energy costs nothing, but how can we use it?We can use the...

Many amateur mechanics who require small metal castings in their work would like to make their own castings. This can easily be done at home without going to any great...

What are Tires Made out of? Think of all the different things that can be made from rubber.There are gloves, rubber bands, boots and shoes, fan belts for cars, inflatable...

Paddle Wheel Boat Plans – How to Build a Paddle-Wheel Boat By P. A. Baumeister The paddle-wheel boat, illustrated herewith, was built in the spare time I had on rainy...

A good serviceable rabbit trap can be made by sinking a common dry goods box in the ground to within 6 in. of its top. A hole 6 or 7...

How does a light bulb work – for kids? Have you ever looked closely at an ordinary electric light bulb? Hold it carefully while you do so. Inside, you may...

How to Make an Anemometer for a Science Project – An Electric Anemometer By Wm. H. Dettman The construction of this instrument is so simple that any amateur can make...

Invention of Collodion Process in 5.32 min video created by George Eastman House. Introduced in 1851, by Frederick Scott Archer, the wet collodion process was a fairly simple, if somewhat...