[maire]

If you like this, then you will love this 1913 Boy Mechanic series.

The Boy Mechanic Volume I: 700 Things For Boys To Do https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12655

The Boy Mechanic, Book 2: 1000 Things for Boys to Do https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44585

One of the transcriber said: Another class of projects illustrate the caviler attitude toward environment and health in 1913. These projects involve items such as asbestos, gunpowder, acetylene, hydrogen, lead, mercury, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, cadmium, potassium sulfate, potassium cyanide, potassium ferrocyanide, copper sulfate, and hydrochloric acid. Many references to these have been highlighted in red.

Projects requiring extra skill and care that involve high voltage, melting metals, or other hazards, have the title highlighted.

[jdougan]

There was also The Boy Electrician https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63207

My elementary school (1975) library had a copy I devoured.

[samizdis]

Wow. Just sublime. Insanely ambitious projects mixed with the insightfully practical and leavened with, er, just so many ways to die. Have downloaded both and will relish reading them thoroughly. Many thanks.

[jonjacky]

I recall seeing a book once called Science Experiments You Can Do At Home -- But Probably Shouldn't