[yodon]

I'm not able to find a copy online but the 1933 book this article discusses is truly amazing. Full of techniques for fabricating all sorts of things. If you consider yourself a maker you want to read the book.

[webnrrd2k]

If you like making things by hand, the old Machinist's Handbooks are also really good to have, with lots of old but still fascinating, and even occasionally useful stuff in 'em.

[OldGuyInTheClub]

I love these, old books on engineering design, and historical technical drawings. The cost of errors must have been astronomical before CAD and Ctrl-Z. I can only imagine how much focus was required to do the complex shadings and exploded diagrams we now take for granted.

[bramblerose]

There is a link to a scan at the bottom of the article (although it currently doesn't load for me)

[cshimmin]

What's the title of the book?

[wolfgang42]

Working backwards from the header in the linked PDF, I found “University studies, Cambridge, 1933”: https://www.worldcat.org/title/1197571

(Contents: Introduction, by Harold Wright; Philosophy, by R.B. Braithwaite; Mathematics, by M.H.A. Newman; The craft of experimental physics, by P.M.S. Blackett; Chemistry, by C.P. Snow; Physiological research, by R.K. Matthews; Biology, by C.H. Waddington; History, by R.E. Balfour; The study of the classics at Cambridge, by B.L. Hallward; English literature, by F.L. Lucas)

[yodon]

From the second sentence of the article, The Craft of Experimental Physics, by P.M.S. Blackett.

[gtsnexp]

That seems to be the title of the essay, not the book in which it was printed