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

Shop here for Christmas
106
Christmas gifts
Fighting the fire ant
112
Ants
House full of built-ins
113
Furniture, Built in
Stern-wheelers ply the Congo
118
Zaire River
Salt-water battery
124
Ewart Thomas, pseud STIMSON, Storage batteries
Underground missile base at Vandenberg air force base
128
Guided missile bases, Guided missiles (Equipment), Underground structures
Alaska, big land of contrasts
132
Alaska (Description and travel)
Road block ahead!
138
United States Interstate Commerce Commission, Trucks (Inspection)
Look who's coming in by plane!
146
Animals (Transportation)

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