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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
 

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Ten buses grow into a train
81
Railroads (Trains)
They're planning your home in the sun
88
Orientation (Architecture)
Jet planes head for the melting point
92
Aerodynamic heating, Airplanes (Materials), Airplanes, Jet (Design)
Operation ditch
98
Aviation (Safety measures)
If I were a student today
103
Nuclear physics, Scientists
He builds windproof tv masts
146
John RAZIEN, Television antennas
Cowboys lasso a rhino
152
Rhinoceros hunting
Battery-operated intercom
158
Communication
Coloring with stain
161
Furniture, Painted, Stains and staining
Wrought-iron telephone table
165
Stands (Furniture), Wrought iron

Britain's atom-age carrier
109
Aircraft carriers
Blackout racing clock shows time and trips starting cannon
116
Timing devices
Rope scope
117
Narinder Kapany, Fiberscopes
Owners report: Packard owners like torsionbar ride
118
Automobiles
Clymer tests the Clipper Custom
118
Floyd Clymer; d. 1970, Automobiles (Testing)
Mylar, the new synthetic film
124
Wallace Hume Carothers, Mylar
Teen-agers learn to hunt safely
126
Hunting (Study and teaching), Shooting
Portrait of a highway
131
Highway engineering, Photography, Aerial
They pry into the lives of fish
132
California Dept. of Fish and Game, Fisheries (Research)
Motorcycles invade the wilds
138
Motorcycling
Mile of paper in two minutes
142
Paper making equipment
Auto stylist styles his own car
145
William FLAJOLE, Automobiles (Design)
Building block set
169
Toys
How to make incredible pictures
174
Photography, Trick
Half-moon wall plaque
181
Plaques
Patterncraft
182
Beds
Stop rust in your home
186
Corrosion and anticorrosives
Wagon seat serving tray
191
Trays
How to patch plaster
192
Plaster and plastering, Repairing
Winterize your car's electrical system
197
Automobiles (Maintenance and repair, Electric equipment)
Make your own aluminum storm sash
201
Windows
Make your own router
205
Routing machines
Check up on saw alignment
208
Saws and sawing
Plain tapered turnings
214
Turning (Machine work)

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