Excerpt from Electric Toy Making for Amateurs: Including Batteries, Magnets, Motors, Miscellaneous Toys and Dynamo Construction Electric toy making is a very comprehensive title, one which may be made to embrace far more ground than this work pretends to cover. In the realms of amateur work of all kinds - mechanics, natural science, and even legerdemain or natural magic - electricity can be made to play an important part. The methods of applying it to simple constructions, within the reach and scope of amateurs, constitute the theme of this book. The effort has been to present the reader with a suggestive line of experimentation and construction, and to open a field within which his own ideas can have indefinite scope and extent. It is believed that little in the way of actual toy making can be done outside of the general limits here defined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.