A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond

Born in 1876, A. Russell Bond, also published as Alexander Russell Bond, was an American writer whose books brought technology and mechanics to general readers, especially boys eager to build, experiment, and understand how things worked. Public-domain records of his work connect him with titles including The Scientific American Boy, Handy Man's Workshop and Laboratory, The American Boys' Engineering Book, On the Battle Front of Engineering, and Inventions of the Great War.

Bond also wrote for Scientific American, where surviving article listings show him covering factories, machinery, transportation, safety, and large engineering projects in the 1910s. Some library and public-domain sources describe him as an editor of scientific magazines, and later reference sites identify him as a patent attorney as well, though the strongest easy-to-confirm record here is his long association with science and technology publishing.

He appears to have died in 1937. Today, his books still appeal to listeners and readers who enjoy early popular science writing: clear, energetic, and full of curiosity about invention in everyday life.