Popular Mechanics

Front Cover
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.
 

Browse all issues

Contents

Video Tumor Fighter Close to Human Trial
29
Magnetic resonance imaging (Medical use), Brain (Cancer, Surgery)
America's Enforcer
39
F-14 (Jet fighter plane)
Blind Taste Test
43
Automobiles (Rating), Automobiles, Foreign (Rating)
New Gas: Hype Or Hope?
48
Reformulated gasoline
Stealth Speakers
51
Loudspeakers (Rating)
Stripmining the Sea
106
Marine animals, Fishing nets, Fisheries (East Asia), Poaching
Home Broadcasting
118
Videotape recorders and recording (Equipment), Video equipment, Television transmission
Editing Your Home Videos Gets Easy
120
Videotapes (Editing), Videotape recorders and recording (Equipment)
The Restoration Bookshelf
122
Historic houses, sites, etc (Bibliography), Houses, Restored (Bibliography)
Curing Driveline Vibrations
127
Automobiles (Vibration, Power trains)

Long-term Test Cars
56
Automobiles (Rating), Automobiles, Foreign (Rating), Four wheel drive vehicles (Rating), Vans (Rating)
Coastal Run
60
Cruising (Atlantic Coast (U.S.)), Motor boats (Rating), Intracoastal Waterway
Dictionary of Woodworking Tools
65
Woodworking tools
Autobahn Burner with Style
102
Automobiles, Foreign (Rating)
TV from Space Made Easy
131
Communications satellites (Television broadcasting industry use), Direct broadcast satellite services (Equipment), Earth stations (Satellite communication)
The Plane that Wrote History
132
Airplanes, Military (Great Britain), Spitfire (Fighter plane)
GM Saturn Revisited
136
Saturn Corporation, Automobiles (Rating)

Common terms and phrases