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

Our busy inventors
90
Products, New
New landmark for Brussels, the Atomium
99
Exposition Universelle et Internationale (1958: Brussels, Belgium)
Thin tube foretells wall tv and sky view for air pilot
104
Television receivers (Picture tubes)
PM tests the 1958 Chevrolet, Ford, Plymouth
109
Automobiles
Chemical bomber for SAC.
123
Airplanes, Military
Build your own tel-amp
179
Telephone amplifiers
Binding tape is versatile
183
Adhesive tape
Dream darkroom takes little space
186
Photography (Studios and darkrooms)
Enameled nameplates
190
Nameplates
ABC of stains
192
Stain removal

Italy's first supersonic fighter, the Sagittario
124
Airplanes, Military (Italy)
Tv trickery
127
Television production and direction, Tricks
I led the Thunderbirds
131
United States Air Force, Aviation (Stunt flying)
Forecast: a sky full of satellites
138
Artificial satellites
Army adopts a new rifle
146
United States Army, Rifles
Circular hospital eliminates dead-end corridors
151
Hospitals
This pipeline delivers fuel by remote control
153
Pipelines
Battle of Donner pass
155
Roads (California), Snow and ice removal, Donner Summit (Calif.)
How the navy measures an ocean wave
161
Waves
White Alice starts talking
162
Radar defense networks, Radio broadcasting
Cabana home
168
Automobile trailers
How to build physical fitness
171
Exercise
Egg assembly line separates yolks from whites
177
Eggs
Four hundred tons of church go for ride, San Mateo, Calif
178
Moving of structures, etc

Common terms and phrases