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

A Real Smart Road
15
Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems
Asia Spy Report
34
Automobiles, Foreign (Design)
Think It's New? Think Again!
36
Toothbrushes (History)
Hot Sounds
40
Cold fusion, Sonoluminescence, Bubbles
Mood Lighting
46
Lighting (Control)
Ford F-Series
64
Pickup trucks (History)
City at Sea
69
Norm Nixon (American engineering executive.), Freedom (Ship), Floating cities
The People Place
76
Automotive Hall of Fame
Beauty and the Beasts
79
Boats and boating, Motor boats, Motor boat engines
For Videophiles Only
87
Digital videotape recorders and recording (Rating)

Hinge Benefits
52
Speed skating (Competitions), Skates
Web Vs. Net
55
PCTV., Network computers
Ultimate High
58
Airplanes, Military (Eastern Europe, Collectors and collecting), Airplanes (Private ownership), Airplanes, Used (Purchasing), Surplus military property
Full Service Without a Smile
62
Shell Oil Company, Automobile service stations (Automation)
Learn the Ropes
91
Rope
Air Compressor
94
Air compressors
Bringing Power to an Outbuilding
96
Electric outlets, Electric wire and wiring
Replacing Headlights
112
Automobiles (Lighting)

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