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

American engineers look at foreign cars
8
Automobiles (Design)
Those fabulous flying Fords
65
William Bushnell Stout; 1880-1956, Airplanes, Light
Ten-minute service for a streamliner
72
Railroads (Maintenance and repair, Trains)
Commander Sigleer's private fleet
78
Ship and boat models
German kangaroo rescue ship
81
Ships
Mobile power plants serve emergency needs
139
Mobile electric plants
Tools for your lawn and garden
140
Garden equipment
Telescoping trailer cabin
145
Automobiles (Camping equipment)
College for plumbers, Los Angeles
146
Plumbers
Inventors hit television jackpot
148
Inventions, Television program reviews

Frontier lives again in Frontier Town
82
Arthur L. BENSON, Frontier Town (N.Y.)
Now they're hunting oil with atomic guns
87
Nuclear counters, Petroleum prospecting
What's happening in tv around the world
93
Television
Chicago builds a three-story underground garage
100
Garages
NBC's $62,000 Cadillac
102
Television equipment, Television cameras
Robots sort the mail
106
Mail handling, Sorting equipment
Sports car evolves from Indianapolis racer
108
Automobiles
Portable electric clothes drier has a variety of uses
117
Clothes dryers
Owners report on the '53 Buick
118
Floyd Clymer; d. 1970, Automobiles
Will America win at Le Mans?
126
Automobile racing
Robot records trains
131
Railroads (Automatic train control)
Sweden works underground
132
Underground factories, Underground structures
Lumber from toothpicks
134
Lumbering, Pine
Panel your home with plywood
150
Paneling, Plywood
Cart for your outboard motor
167
Outboard motors (Transportation)
Plan of the month: porch swing
168
Swings
Beating wood rot to the punch
172
Pentachlorophenol, Wood (Preservation and preservatives)
Make your own surf rod
177
Fishing tackle
Lightweight tent for hikers
182
Tents
Twelve ways to save gas
187
Automobile engines (Energy usage)
35-mm. carrying case
192
Camera bags, cases, etc
Rolling shop cabinet
195
Tool boxes, racks, etc
Special-purpose planes and scrapers
197
Planes and planing
Vacuum-cleaner motor drives flexible-shaft tool
203
Shafting
Tv signal booster features golden grid tube
212
Television equipment

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