Dave Dashaway and His Giant Airship


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Dave Dashaway is an adventurous young aviator in the earliest days of flying.







Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane


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Dave Dashaway is an adventurous young aviator in the earliest days of flying.







Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars


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Joe Matson moves to a new town and longs to pitch for the local nine, though the presence of a near-psychotically jealous ace pitcher slows his trajectory toward baseball stardom.




Baseball Joe on the School Nine


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Joe Matson overcomes the jealousy of lesser lights among Excelsior's twirlers, and pitches his school to the Blue Banner.




The Khaki Boys at the Front


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Boys' Books, Boys' Dreams, and the Mystique of Flight


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Setting the stage : technology and the series book -- Birdmen and boys, 1905-1915 -- Aces and combat : World War I and after, 1915-1935 -- Interlude : Charles A. Lindbergh and Atlantic flight, 1927-1929 -- The golden age, I : the Lindbergh progeny, 1927-1939 -- The golden age, II : the air-minded society, 1930-1939 -- World War II and modern aviation, 1939-1945 -- Aftermath : a-bombs, rockets, and space flight, 1945-1950.




Motors


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The following book is a treatise on electric motors written by J. S. Zerbe, intended for an audience of young boys. The opening chapters, which treat the fundamentals, lay a foundation for the work we shall be called upon to perform, when we treat the structures of the different parts and devices in the various types of motors. The object of this book in general is to explain power in its various phases, how derived, and the manner in which advantage is taken of the elements, and substances with which we are brought into contact.




Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck, Or, Working to Clear His Name


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One of a series of children's adventure stories by Allen Chapman - the house pseudonym used for a number of books for young people published since 1905.