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

New tape equipment
20
Tape recorders and recording
Carry your tools in this sawhorse
34
Sawhorses, Tool boxes, racks, etc
8-track goes hi-fi at last
41
Tape recorders and recording
GFCIs: is circuit breaker or receptacle better for you
49
Electric circuit breakers
Latest in loudspeakers
50
Loudspeakers
Aquapolis: city in the sea
77
Expo 75 (Okinawa Island, Japan)
Now it's easy to make color prints at home
78
Photography (Processing)
How to create the illusion of a sunken tub
80
Bathtubs
Case for the modular home
88
Houses, Prefabricated
Case for the mobile home
90
Mobile homes

Apollo-Soyuz
53
Space flight (Apollo-Soyuz flight, 1975)
257 close-to-home vacationlands--ready and waiting
56
National parks and reserves
Transform your yard into a night-blooming beauty
58
Outdoor lighting
Miles per gallon game
62
In the Shell marathon competition, the current record is 376.59 mpg!
Miles per gallon game
63
This owner boosted the mileage of his family Pinto to 44.5 mpg
How to solder when there's no place to plug in
64
Solder and soldering (Equipment)
PM owners report
66
General motors compacts
Transatlantic balloon jinx: who'll be first to beat it?
70
Balloon ascensions
New engine can save old Betsy
74
Automobile engines

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