Popular Mechanics

Front Cover
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.
 

Browse all issues

Contents

Automatic Bicycle Transmission
16
Bicycles (Transmission), Cyclecomputers
Sports Cars You Build Yourself
23
Automobiles, Home-built (Rating), Sports cars (Rating)
Range War
31
Cordless telephone (Rating)
New-age Dentistry
35
Dentistry
40 Something
39
Automobiles, Foreign (Rating), Automobile engines (Energy usage), Sports cars (Rating), Diesel engines, Automotive (Rating)
Boating '91
65
Boats and boating
Nobody Does it Better
68
Motor boats (Design)
Year of the Outboard
72
Outboard motors
Future Computing
84
Multimedia
In the Beginning
88
Universe, Cosmic Background Explorer (Artificial satellite), Big bang theory

Bowl Making
45
Bowls
Tool Up
50
Tools
Wiring a Doorbell Extension
55
Doorbells, chimes, etc
Painting Walls and Ceilings
59
House painting
Log Homes
96
Log cabins, houses, etc
A Stuttgart Hot Road
102
Automobiles, Foreign (Rating)
Replacing Your Catalytic Converter
109
Automobiles (Catalytic converters)
Demystifying Ethanol
113
Ethanol as fuel, Motor boat engines (Fuel)

Common terms and phrases