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

College in the tall timber
34
IDAHO, UniversitySchool of forestry
Popcorn bowl racers
73
Automobiles, Racing
Heap big wooden Indian
80
Thayne ROBERTSON, Cigar store Indians
Platinum cat makes engine purr
88
Gasoline (Manufacture)
Navajos hunt big game, uranium
89
Navajo Indians, Uranium mines and mining
Spray bomb and a-bomb
146
Fluorine, Spraying equipment
Have fun in a boat, but don't drown
154
Boats and boating
Ridding fast planes of their barnacles
157
Airplanes (Radio equipment)
Bring on your inventions!
158
Frank S. MILBURN, Inventions
Factory without walls in Corpus Christi, Tex
161
Factories (Architecture)

Detroit listening post
93
Automobile industry
Glass doughnut in lens ends fuzzy photographs
94
Lenses, Photographic
Little America in Japan
96
Fairs
Prefabricated floor forms
98
Concrete floors
Send me a five-room house
100
Building, Houses, Prefabricated
Cabin for your boat
106
Boats and boating
They jump for other men's lives
110
Parachutes (Testing)
Jackknife oil derrick rolls to work
116
Cranes, derricks, etc
Workshops for GI Joe
121
United States Army (Recreation), Workshops
Prairie oil boom
125
Petroleum (Canada)
Blowing distortion out of Palomar's eye
134
California Institute of Technology Astrophysical Observatory
High-speed splinter
136
Boats and boating, Rowing
Whittling barber
142
Johnny Mercer; 1909-1976, Wood carving
Enough bread for an army
162
United States Quartermaster Corps, Bread
Covered-wagon ferry restored in Wyoming
164
Ferries
Beachward ho!
165
Beach equipment
Border blocks for your garden
178
Concrete blocks
Built-in wastebasket
181
Wastebaskets
Stop those water leaks!
183
Plumbing
Make your boat safe
189
Boats and boating (Maintenance and repair)
Bilge pump
193
Pumps
Basement golf
194
Miniature golf
Titles that spark interest
200
Motion pictures (Titling)
Sawing metal on your band saw
211
Saws and sawing
Make your own printed circuits
221
Printed circuits
Portable knockabout super built in a lunch box
222
Portable radio receivers

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