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

Rust meets its worst enemy
81
Alfred Arthur GRAHAME-CHAPMAN, Corrosion and anticorrosives
Electric fishing
96
Fishing nets
Mother of the minesweepers
97
Landing craft, Minesweepers
Miniature revolution
110
Robert L. ROWE, Electric motors
Superpier almost floats
114
Docks, wharves, etc
Sidewalk play car
174
Toy automobiles
Tinkling centerpiece
179
Metalwork (Projects)
Plan of the month
184
Chairs
Kiddie combination padlock
187
Toys
Care and repair of mortised door locks
188
Locks and keys

So that the blind can work and play
117
Blind (Equipment)
Career school for jet mechanics
122
Air bases, Airplane mechanics (Persons) (Training)
Atomic furnace for use in industrial research
129
Nuclear reactors
In battle, there's always one more river to cross
134
Military bridges, Bridges, Portable
Sun-gazer's telescope
140
Coronagraph
Curved locks open by rotating on pivot at Saint Malo, France
142
Locks (Hydraulic engineering)
Revolution on the farm, 1902-1952
143
Agriculture, Farm mechanization
Library of plants
150
John Henry CHRIST, Plants (Collection and preservation)
Daniel Boone keeps up a tradition
154
Daniel BOONE; 6th, Metalwork
Private life of a snowflake
158
Meteorology, Snow
Fused-enamel finishes
165
Enamels and enameling
"Tooled leather" tops for your furniture
168
Veneers and veneering, Woodworking (Projects)
Make a paper menagerie
192
Paper work (Art)
Versatile knitting table
195
Tables
Restring that old tennis racket
196
Tennis rackets
Know your car's nervous system
201
Automobiles (Electric equipment)
Chair-ladder
205
Ladders
Correcting flash-gun parallax
207
Photography, Flashlight
35-mm. slide projector
208
Projectors
Easy-to-store horses and scaffolds
211
Sawhorses, Scaffolding
Color tv for theaters
227
Color television
Versatile amplifier
228
Amplifiers
Tv-booster hints
231
Television receivers
Modernize your old radio-phonograph combination
232
Radio receivers (Phonograph combination)

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