The Boy Mechanic, Vol. 2: 1000 Things for Boys to Do (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Boy Mechanic, Vol. 2: 1000 Things for Boys to Do; How to Construct Devices for Winter Sports, Motion-Picture Camera, Indoor Games, Reed Furniture, Electrical Novelties, Boats, Fishing Rods, Camps and Camp Appliances, Kites and Gliders, Pushmobiles, Roller Coaster, Ferris Wheel

Surveying and map making have always been two of the most interest ing things a civil engineer has had to do. And, like George Washington, many of the men we look up to today as successes in different lines worked as surveyors in their younger days. Surveying takes one out of doors, and is apt to lead him into the unknown and unexplored byways of the earth.

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