Popular Mechanics

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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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Contents

Air support is the G.I.'s Sunday punch
81
Airplanes, Military, Korean War, 1950-1953 (Aerial operations)
Convertible boat has a floating centerboard
88
Motor boats, Sailboats
New West still fights rustlers
92
Cattle branding, Cattle (Theft)
Our eyes aloft spy out the enemy
97
Korean War, 1950-1953 (Photographs), Photography, Aerial
Owners report on the '51 Oldsmobile
104
Floyd Clymer; d. 1970, Automobiles (Testing)

Electric heater provides hot water and cool air
110
Water heaters
Back-yard bomb shelter
112
Bomb shelters
French electric car
114
Automobiles, Electric
House of steel
116
Steel houses
Plant models help Canada fight pests
118
Albert A. WOOD, Plants (Diseases and pests), Plants, Artificial
Push pull called best method
122
Respiration, Artificial
Slingshooting huntsmen
122
Slingshots and slingshooting
Jet-propelled flying boat
124
Airplanes, Military, Seaplanes
Around the test track in a Walker Bulldog
128
Tanks, Military
Packaged ranch-style homes
132
Houses, Prefabricated
Elevating floor converts night club to theater
133
Floors
Ocean-bottom filling station
136
Loading and unloading, Tankers
Reviving the ancient Andean arts
140
Arts and crafts (Peru)
They fool you every night
144
Television production and direction
Atom fed animals test radioactivity
151
RADIOACTIVITY (Safety measures)
Enlarger makes 1500 prints hourly
155
Photography (Enlargers and enlarging)
Tile your walls and floors
166
Tile laying
Trio in hammered metal
174
Metalwork (Projects)
Shop drawing board
181
Drawing boards, tables, etc
How to patch plaster
182
Plaster and plastering
Sewing-machine console
193
Cabinets (Furniture)
Remember the birds the year 'round
198
Birdhouses, Birds (Food and feeding)
Ruffled fruit dish
201
Bowls
100-power microscope
202
Microscopes
Double-print frame
205
Photography (Equipment)
Handy photoflood kit
206
Photography (Light and lighting)
Tailstock turret attachment
211
Lathes
Turn yourself a hammer
214
Hammers
Three ways of loosening a frozen nut
217
Bolts and nuts
Sawing on the milling machine
218
Metal cutting, Milling machines
Ultra-high-frequency tv stations due in 1952
228
Television stations
Low-cost cw transmitter for the new novice ham band
231
Shortwave radio (Equipment)

Common terms and phrases