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

Fish shocker picks its victims
130
Fish (Control)
Keeping up with the atom
133
RADIOACTIVITY (Safety measures)
Keynote of the farm gadget show. I just built it because I needed it
136
Agricultural equipment, Fairs
Electronic mixer for home recorders
141
Tape recorders and recording, Sound equipment
Decorate with paper transparencies
145
Photocopying

Right behind the firemen come the salvage squads
82
Fire prevention
Big tree digger
87
Excavating machinery, Tree planting
Latest from Paris: an all-plastic house
88
Plastic houses
Helicopter engines power this dragster of Arfons brothers, Akron
91
Automobiles, Racing
Science probes the secrets of the virus
92
Tobacco mosaic virus, Viruses
Air conditioning for the chicken house
97
Poultry houses (Heating and ventilation)
Driverless tractor stunts for safety
105
Tractors
Privates and generals study a-bomb
110
Nuclear weapons, United States (Armed Forces)
Playground with an imagination
114
F. Leland ELAM, Playgrounds (Equipment), Oakland (Calif.) (Parks)
Sun earns his living for him
120
Cole R. CARYL, Sunlight, Testing
Chevy V8 is hot, say owners
122
Automobiles
Floyd Clymer tests the Chevrolet
123
Floyd Clymer; d. 1970, Automobiles (Testing)
Engineer analyzes the Chevrolet
124
Automobiles (Testing)
Electronic amplifier magnifies light 40,000 times
129
Optical amplifiers

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