The book of wonders, Volume 2

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Contents

1. Who Made the First Felt Hat?
2. What Is the Hottest Spot on Earth?
3. Where Do We Get Ivory?
4. How Did Trial by Jury Originate?
5. Can Animals Foretell the Weather?
6. Nearest Approach Ever Made to Perpetual Motion in Mechanics
7. Do Plants Breathe?
8. What Depth of Snow Is Equivalent to an Inch of Rain?
9. How Are the Stars Counted?
10. How Is the Volume of Sound Measured?
11. At What Rate Does Thought Travel?
12. What Is the Largest Tree In the World?
13. Where Did the Term Yankees Originate?
14. How Far Does the Air Extend?
15. What Makes Us Feel Hungry?
16. What Makes Us Thirsty?
17. What Is Pain and Why Does It Hurt?
18. What Is the Horizon?
19. How Far Away Is the Horizon?
20. Why Can We See Farther When We Are Up High?
21. What Makes Lobsters Turn Red?
22. Why Do We Have to Die?
23. Making Plate Glass
24. Why Is the Sky Blue?
25. What Makes the Colors of the Sunset?
26. Are There Two Sides to the Rainbow?
27. Do the Ends of the Rainbow Rest on Land?
28. What Causes the Different Colors of the Rainbow?
29. What Makes the Hills Look Blue Sometimes?
30. Do the Stars Really Shoot Down?
31. Will the Sky Ever Fall Down?
32. What Is the Milky Way?
33. Why Do They Call It the Milky Way?
34. Why Don’t the Stars Shine in the Day-time?
35. How Far Does Space Reach?
36. What Does Horse Power Mean?
37. The Story in a Lump of Coal
38. What Is a Metal?
39. What Is the Most Valuable Metal?
40. Why Is Gold Called Precious?
41. What Do We Mean By 18-Carat Fine?
42. Why Does Silver Tarnish?
43. Why Do We Use Copper Telegraph Wires?
44. Why Is Lead So Heavy?
45. Why Are Cooking Utensils Made of Tin?
46. What Is Gravitation?
47. What Is Specific Gravity?
48. Why Do We See Stars When Hit On the Eye?
49. The Story in a Submarine Boat
50. Where Do Sponges Come From?
51. How Do Sponges Grow?
52. How Do Sponges Eat?
53. How Are Sponges Caught?
54. Why Does Yeast Make Bread Rise?
55. What Is Yeast?
56. Is a Moth Attracted By a Light?
57. How Man Discovered Fire
58. Are Matches Poisonous?
59. Did Candles Come Before Lamps?
60. What Were the Earliest Lamps?
61. What Were the Lamps of the Wise and Foolish Maidens Made Of?
62. When Were Street Lamps First Used?
63. When Were Candles Introduced?
64. Where Did the Word “Gas” Originate?
65. How the Light Gets Into the Electric Light Bulb
66. How Does an Arc Light Burn?
67. What Are X-Rays?
68. How Man Learned to Fight Fire
69. How Did Man Learn to Cook His Food?
70. Why Does a Sponge Hold Water?
71. Why Is the Right Hand Stronger Than the Left?
72. Why Do My Muscles Get Sore When I Play Ball In the Spring?
73. Why Does a Barber’s Pole Have Stripes?
74. How Was the Flag Made?
75. Why Are Some Guns Called Gatling Guns?
76. How Did Hobson’s Choice Originate?
77. Why Do They Call It a Honeymoon?
78. Why Is a Horseshoe Said to Bring Good Luck?
79. Some Wonders of the Human Body
80. Where Did the Expression “Kick the Bucket” Originate?
81. How Did the Word “News” Originate?
82. Who Made the First Umbrella?
83. The Story in a Time Piece
84. Where Does the Day Begin?
85. How Much of the Earth Does the Sun Shine on at One Time?
86. Where Is the Hour Changed?
87. Where Does the Day Change?
88. Why Do We Cook the Things We Eat?
89. The Story in a Magnet
90. What Is a Lodestone?
91. What Is Electricity?
92. What Is a Leyden Jar?
93. Who Discovered Electricity?
94. What Is an Electric Current?
95. Why Does a Bee Have a Sting?
96. How Does a Honey Bee Live?
97. The Beginning of a Steamship
98. What Is Water Made Of?
99. What Is a Molecule?
100. How Do We Know a Thing Is Solid, Liquid or Gas?
101. How Big Is a Molecule?
102. What Is an Element?
103. What Is Hydrogen Gas?
104. What Is Oxygen?
105. What Is Nitrogen?
106. Why Are Some Things Transparent and Others Not?
107. Why Is the Sea Water Salt?
108. Why Does Salt Make Me Thirsty?
109. What Are Diamonds Made Of?
110. What Causes Dimples?
111. Why Does the Dark Cause Fear?
112. The Story in a Coil of Rope
113. Why Do We Go to Sleep?
114. Why Do We Wake Up in the Morning?
115. Where Are We When Asleep?
116. Why Does It Seem When We Have Slept All Night That We Have Been Asleep Only a Minute?
117. Why Should We Not Sleep With the Moon Shining On Us?
118. What Makes Us Dream?
119. Why Do We Know We Have Dreamed When We Wake Up?
120. What Causes Nightmare?
121. What Are Ghosts?
122. Why Do Girls Like Dolls?
123. What Makes the Works of a Watch Go?
124. What Makes a Hot Box?
125. The Story in a Moving Picture
126. The Story in a Ball of Rubber
127. The Story in a Stick of Chocolate
128. Does Air Weigh Anything?
129. Why Does the Scenery Appear to Move When We Are Riding in a Train?
130. Why Don’t the Scenery Appear to Move When I am in a Street Car?
131. Why Does the Moon Travel With Us When We Walk or Ride?
132. Is There a Man in the Moon?
133. Does the Air Surrounding the Earth Move With It?
134. Why Does Oiling the Axle Make the Wheel Turn More Easily?
135. What Made the Mountains?
136. What Makes the Sea Roar?
137. Why Is Fire Hot?
138. When I Throw a Ball Into the Air While Walking, Why Does It Follow Me?
139. What Good Are the Lines On the Palms of Our Hands?
140. What Makes Things Whirl Round When I Am Dizzy?
141. Why Are the Complexions of Some People Light and Others Dark?
142. What Makes Me Tired?
143. Why Are Most People Right-Handed?
144. Why Are Some Faculties Stronger Than Others?
145. The Story in a Cup and Saucer
146. How Do Birds Find Their Way?
147. How Does a Captain Steer His Ship Across the Ocean?
148. Why the Birds Come Back in Spring?
149. Why Do Birds Go South in Winter?
150. Why Don’t the Birds Stay South?
151. How Do They Find the Old Home?
152. Why Do Birds Sing?
153. What Causes an Arrow to Fly?
154. Why Do Children Like Candy?
155. Why Does Eating Candy Make Some People Fat?
156. What Makes Snowflakes White?
157. What Makes the White Caps on the Waves White?
158. What Good Can Come of a Toothache?
159. How Can Microbes Spread Through the Body?
160. What Causes Toothache?
161. Of What Use Are Pains and Aches?
162. What Causes Earache?
163. What Is Soap Made Of?
164. The Story in a Telegram
165. The Story in an Ocean Cable
166. The Story in a Railway Locomotive
167. The Story in the Wireless
168. How Does a Fly Walk Upside Down?
169. What Is Money?
170. Why Do We Need Money?
171. Who Originated Money?
172. Metallic Forms of Money
173. Why Do We Use Gold and Silver as Money Principally?
174. Who Made the First Cent?
175. How Did the Name Uncle Sam Originate?
176. The Story in a Loaf of Bread
177. The Story in a Lead Pencil
178. The Story in a Bale of Cotton
179. The Story in a Piano
180. How Sounds Are Produced
181. What Is Sound?
182. How Fast Does Sound Travel?
183. What Are the Properties of Sound?
184. Why Can You Hear More Easily Through a Speaking Tube?
185. What Is Meant By the Length of Sound Waves?
186. Musical Instruments
187. Talking Machines
188. Why Does Red Make a Bull Angry?
189. Where Does Salt Come From?
190. Where Do All the Little Round Stones Come From?
191. What Is Clay?
192. Where Do School Slates Come From?
193. What Causes Shadows?
194. The Foundation of a Sky Scraper
195. The Story in a Glass of Water
196. What is Carbonic Acid?
197. Is It a Fact that the Sun Revolves On Its Axis?
198. What Is the Most Usefully Valuable Metal?
199. The Story in a Pipe and Cigar
200. The Story in a Finger Print
201. The Story in a Honey Bee
202. Why Are Some Races White, and Others Black, Yellow and Brown?
203. The Story in a Piece of Leather
204. The Story in a Pair of Shoes
205. How Shoes Are Made by Machinery
206. How the Paper in this Book is Made
207. How Is Photo Engraving Done?
208. Acknowledgment

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