Indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1888)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, author · London : Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row, 65 St. Paul's Churchyard and 164 Piccadilly · leaf 441
wire straightened. Into the inside of each leg, and one foot from the top, screw one of Fig. 7. the brass stair-screws. Now get a piece of wood, circular, three inches diameter and one and a half inches thick (a ribbon roller will do very well), and bore a hole right through the centre, one and a… … hard. Before drawing out the roller, cut the ends off quite square with a sharp knife, leaving the tube thirty-seven and a half inches long. Now draw out the roller without breaking the tube. We must next fix the object-glass. Cut a strip of cardboard half an inch wide, and long enough to go all…
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