Weiss, Harvey

Describes the development and design refinements of submarines, the different types, and their uses in such activities as deep sea exploration and treasure hunting. Also discusses life aboard a submarine.

Discusses different types of inventors and their creations and gives advice on becoming an inventor.

Lists the necessary equipment and gives instructions for making such items as a weather vane, sunbeam alarm clock, hand-held sail, and other useful and useless gadgets.

Introduces the tools, materials, and techniques for creating a variety of model trucks.

Instructions for making a variety of model airplanes out of cardboard or wood including simple methods of powering them.

Examines different ways that separate parts can be held together to make larger, stronger, or more complicated structures.

Includes basic instructions on how to choose, measure, and saw wood, hammer in nails, drill holes, and finish wood surfaces.

Describes a number of shelters constructed from different types of materials and suitable to varying climates, including tepees, yurts, log cabins, stone houses, and igloos.

Basic instructions for making a book accompany suggestions for special types of book making projects--travel journals, diaries, photo albums, scrapbooks, comic books, and others.

Discusses the many kinds of cartoons--funny ones, political and editorial ones, caricatures, comic strips and books, gag panels, animated movie cartoons--and gives hints to the budding cartoonist.