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

Tv's little brother
81
Business and television, TELEVISIONMilitary use
Sun operates window louvers of Will Rogers elementary school, Ventura, Calif
86
Louvers
I'm building the Popular mechanics plywood ranch house
88
Building
On permanent alert
91
Aviation, Military, Airplanes, Military
Road-sign language
96
Traffic signs and signals
War in the white pines
162
Pine (Diseases and pests), Pine blister rusts
Give Santa a hand
166
Toys, Woodworking (Projects)
Trail knives
179
Knives
How to tie a Gaucho knot
182
Leather work, Neckties
Combination storage-control box for model trains
185
Model railroads

Rockets on a timetable
97
Rockets
1951 Mercury
105
Automobiles
This business is next to nothing
108
Vacuum equipment
Sky-riding bus up the slopes of Mount Hood
114
Cable railroads, Mount Hood (Or.)
Island commuter
118
Motor boats
Pumice roof
120
Roofs and roofing
Small homes of pumice block, in Pullman
121
Houses (Washington (State)), Building, Blocks (Building materials)
Floating tv theater in Chicago tribune's structure
126
Television studios
Tortillas meet the machine age
129
Cooking, Mexican
Navy's chamber of horrors
133
Military supplies (Testing), Naval ordnance, UNITED STATESNaval ordnance laboratory, White Oak (Md.)
Skyroads to everywhere
144
Airways, Radio in aviation
Russian tanks
150
Tanks, Military
Tailor-made for bull's-eyes
153
Joe PFEIFER, Rifles

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