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

Navy's watch on the Rhine
1
United States Navy, Landing craft, World War, 1939-1945 (Campaigns and battles, Western), Rhine River
Steerable-wing plane
8
George Spratt, Airplanes (Control, Design)
When we build roads again
11
Highway engineering, Road machinery
Turbine locomotives challenge Diesel power
17
Locomotives
Train that follows the fleet
18
United States Navy
Wings for the family?
33
Airplanes (Private ownership)
Railroading under the blitz
40
Railroads (Great Britain)
Blackout in the sky
44
Solar eclipses, Sunspots, Moon
Zero in the kitchen
51
Frozen foods
Deepest well explores three miles of inner earth
56
Oil wells

At home in the jungle
27
United States Army (Equipment), Jungles

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