Foundry work -- Smiths' work -- Surfacing metals -- Polishing metals: the machines and processes -- Annealing, hardening, and tempering -- Drilling and boring -- Taps, screw-plates, and dies -- Soldering, brazing, and riveting -- Forging iron and steel -- Working sheet metal -- Repoussé work -- Oriental decorative brasswork -- Finishing, lacquering, and colouring brass -- Lathes and lathework -- Spinning metals on the lathe -- Tools for measuring and testing metalwork -- Building a 4 1/2-in. centre lathe -- Gold and silver working -- Making a skeleton clock -- Building a small horizontal steam engine -- Making a 1/4-h.p. vertical steam engine -- Boiler making -- Building a petrol motor -- Making water motors -- Building a dynamo and electric motor -- Electro-plating -- Wire working -- Electric bell making -- Making a microscope and a telescope.