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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

Meet lithium: the stuff of h-bombs and milady's powder
57
Lithium
Editor reports from Canaveral
63
Proving grounds
Countdown!
65
Guided missiles (Launching)
They learn to dive before they swim
70
Jerry DOYLE, Diving
They're off to the (model plane) races
76
Airplane models (Competitions)
Crate for cattle
132
Cattle (Transportation)
Karlson acoustic transducer for hi-fi and music
133
Loudspeakers, Transducers
Utilizing all trailer space
137
Automobile trailers
Sportsman's cab for pickup truck
142
Trucks (Equipment)
Frame it with your camera
145
Composition (Photography)

You can walk on water in a General Electric engineer's plastic bubble
80
Balls
Small car, which shape is best?
84
Automobiles (Design)
History comes to life in plastic
89
Wax figures
Moving day for a hangar
94
Moving of structures, etc
Detecting bootleg nuclear tests
102
Jay OREAR, Nuclear weapons (Testing, Manufacture)
Want a jet plane?
108
Robert V. KAMENSKY, Airplanes, Jet
Lincoln owners rate styling its best feature
110
Automobiles
Engineer's analysis
112
Automobiles (Testing)
Ski jump for divers
118
Diving
Navy's smallest aircraft carrier
120
Aircraft carriers
Robot bricklayer builds cavity wall
121
Bricklaying
Our first guided missileaires
122
Guided missile bases (Crews)
You can catch more bass
126
Bass fishing
Landscape your walls
152
Photographic murals
Spatter-spray it!
155
Decoration and ornament, Paint spraying and sprayers
Tips for outdoor cooking
158
Outdoor cooking
Simple sandbox of rugged construction
161
Sandboxes
Automobile-sized refrigerator
162
Automobiles (Equipment)
Making fresh-water fishing plugs
166
Fishing lures, flies, etc
Boards for surf and sail
168
Surfboards
Child's storage chest
173
Chests
Eight types of mortar joints and how to make them
176
Brick construction
Radio-controlled garage doors
180
Doors, Mechanically operated
Hand honing has many shop uses
185
Honing
Midget circular saw
189
Saws and sawing

Common terms and phrases