A Saucepan Holder for Campers Don’t burn your fingers any more when lifting a can of boiling liquid from the camp fire. Cut a fork of the shape shown in the illustration from a bush or tree. Note the notch indicated by the arrow. When you want to lift a can from the fire and pour out its contents, slip …

A Comfortable Seat for Campers Nobody expects camp-life to be as comfortable as things are at home; but we have often felt, when camping, that a nice springy seat would be a pleasant change to the hard unyielding ground. If you want to fit up a comfortable camp seat, take three stout poules. Scouts will, of course, use their poles-place …

The Realistic Snake Most people do not like snakes, though the majority of them are quite harmless, and all are scrupulously clean. If you would like to make one that nobody will object to, go out in the autumn and collect from under the oak-tress a handful of acorn cups. When you have brought them home, grade them according to …

A Feather Glider Some boys are never so happy as when they are devising gliders and flying them. A good many ingenious patterns have been thought out, and the one described here is as good as any we have seen. Take a piece of cane about eight inches long and to each end fit a cork, holding it in position …

We all use computers. If you use Windows on your machine, like me, you will have a small button at the the bottom of your screen called ‘Start’. Every machine in the world which has the Windows software installed has to have that button. However, we can have different screen colours, different text sizes, wallpapers etc. Similarly our bodies are …

In London a moment of historic pageantry was celebrated on this day-the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. It was also the day when London heard the news of the conquest of Mount Everest’s 9,608 m by Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, and Tensing, the famous Sherpa porter from Nepal. The London Times wrote: ‘Seldom since Francis Drake brought the Golden …

The principle of the thermocouple was first described by Seebeck in 1821. Seebeck discovered that when wires of two dissimilar metals were joined together to form a circuit of at least two junctions, a current would flow when the junctions were at different temperatures. This phenomenon, called the Seebeck Effect, is the basis upon which thermocouples are designed.

Making A Camp Stool Camp stools are useful not only in camps but in the garden, in queues and in dozens of other places. You can make one in an afternoon, and it will not cost you much. For the job, the following strips of wood are required: 4 lengths, each 20 inches long and one inch in section. 2 …

The great stones stand gaunt against the sky in the countryside of Wiltshire, England. What is their origin? There are many theories. One of the earliest recorders of this stone system was Henry of Huntingdon, who died in 1154. But the stones are older than that. Some people thought that Boadicea, a queen of the ancient Britons was buried there. …

You get into an elevator (or a lift, as we sometimes call it) and for a second or two, just as the elevator moves down, we feel weightless. On the other hand, if we go up in an elevator, we suddenly feel heavier just as the elevator lurches upwards. To understand this feeling of weightlessness, we need to understand a …