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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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Navy explores the air waves
89
Radio research, UNITED STATESNavy electronics laboratory
Playing tag with lobsters
96
Lobsters
Trimmer slices a canal
99
Excavating machinery
Tips from the camp cook
100
Outdoor cooking
They must land safely
104
Airports (Lighting), Fog control, Los Angeles (Calif.) (Airports)
They hunt wood
169
Wilbur F. OPDYKE, Wood
Science hits the bull's-eye
174
Clarence Nicholas HICKMAN, Archery
Hammer 'em in copper
182
Trays
Get on with your spring plowing
197
Toys
Use cleaning fluids safely
198
Cleaning

Pilotless target plane flies 220 m.p.h
111
Remotely piloted vehicles
Scoot chases poachers on ice and water
112
Ice boats and ice boating
Where fishing is rugged
114
Fisheries (Canada), Fishing, Winter, Great Slave Lake (N.W.T.)
Timesavers for the blind
124
Blind (Equipment)
Clock regulated by vibrations of molecules
125
Atomic clocks
Ben Franklin, junior
126
Jimmie SUTHERLAND
Dash-controlled car sander
129
Automobiles (Safety measures)
Want to buy some rain?
130
Rain and rainfall, Weather control
Cameras to fight heart disease
134
Recording equipment
Photocells take census of trees
136
Forests and forestry (Canada), PLANIMETERS.
Small cars for Britons
138
Compact cars
Prehistoric crop
141
Giant sequoia
Beauty shop in a bucket
148
Horses
Backstage miracle makers
152
St. Louis Municipal Opera, Opera (Stage setting and scenery)
Brains that click
162
Computers
It's easy to make your own window screens
201
SCREENS, Wire
Leathercraft
203
Leather work
Permanent solar awnings
207
Awnings
Trinket chest
208
Chests
Low-cost spotlight for cabin cruiser
209
Floodlighting
Make your rowboat shipshape
210
Boats and boating
Aluminum humidor holds king-size cigarettes
213
Humidors
Hollow concrete blocks form strawberry wall
215
Strawberries
Let the shot light itself
216
Photography (Light and lighting), Machinery (Photographs)
Lathe sanders
221
Sanding and sanding equipment
Farm push truck
225
Trucks
Two farm sprayers
226
Spraying equipment
Bracket increases usefulness of portable drill
234
Drills
1949 little giant trf dual-purpose set for experimenters
238
Radio receivers
More tubes in less space
240
Vacuum tubes

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