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

These roving tv men
65
Television cameras, Television transmission
Photography, then and now
72
Photography (History)
Tractor hitch grabs implements
81
Tractors
Owners report on the '52 Mercury
84
Floyd Clymer; d. 1970, Automobiles (Testing)
I rode the first jet liner
90
Airplanes, Jet
Cut-flower arrangement
145
Flower arrangement
Put your jigsaw to work
150
Woodworking (Projects)
Building a playhouse
154
Playhouses
Outboard-motor carrier
159
Outboard motors
Plan of the month: suitcase picnic bench
164
Picnic baskets

Fish from a seagoing couch
95
Boats and boating
Steel buys groceries
96
Steel metallurgy
Giant B-60 jet longer and taller than B-36
98
Airplanes, Military
Pack up for camp
100
Camping (Equipment)
Locomotive junk piles
105
Scrap metal
They put the home town on skids
106
Manitoba SHERRIDON, Moving of structures, etc
Thousand-mile target range
109
Guided missiles (Testing), Proving grounds
Making of an organ
124
Organ
X-ray movies help doctors
128
Radiography
Trillion-dollar mile of brains, along the Charles river
129
Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Scientific research
Cathode-ray-tube machine writes book in one minute
136
Cathode ray tubes, Recording equipment
Beachcomber's hobby in Guam becomes a business in Ohio
138
Sam E. LONG, Arts and crafts
Salt-water farmers
141
Kelp
Growing garden umbrella
167
Umbrellas
Animal tracks in plaster
168
Animal tracks and trails, Plaques
Outdoor kitchens
171
Fireplaces, Outdoor
Catch 'em with live baits
176
Bait
Know your car's nervous system
181
Automobile engines (Ignition)
Build this 35-mm. tin-can projector
186
Projectors
Knurling on your lathe
191
Knurling
Polishing-head lathe
195
Lathes
Roll 'em up! with a slip roll
196
Metalwork (Projects)
Radius gauge
201
Gages
Detectors of harmful atomic radiation
207
Radioactivity (Measurement)
Versatile preamplifier modernizes phono-radio combinations
208
Amplifiers, Radio receivers (Phonograph combination)
Small metal dollies for radio service bench
210
Radio repair shops

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