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

We're not a gadget shop says the Patent office
12
United States Patent Office
Boston sees the stars in hi-fi
18
Museum of science (Boston, Mass.), Planetariums
These rocketeers play safe
73
Rocket clubs, Rockets (Amateur experiments)
Vauxhall owners praise handling and economy
82
Automobiles, Foreign
Engineer's analysis
84
Automobiles (Testing)
Improve your wing shooting
146
Shooting
Exciting new phonograph records initiate the big switch to stereo
152
Phonograph records, Sound (Recording and reproducing)
Coat and boot rack for your hall
157
Clothes racks
Merrymaker snowmobile
160
Motor sleds
Dustproof wall cabinet
165
Cabinets (Furniture)

Treasure hunt in Navajo land
89
Indians of North America (Reservations), Navajo Indians, Petroleum (Southwestern States)
Push-button camp wagon
93
Automobiles (Camping equipment)
1901 Olds is booming
94
Automobiles
Dentist turns sculptor
98
Jacob Ralph SCHWARTZ, Ivories
Everybody is an inventor
102
National Inventors Council, Inventions
Festival of the iron men
105
Threshing machines
Mower becomes hedge trimmer
111
Hedge trimmers
Trailers for work and play
114
Automobile trailers
Apalachicola, birthplace of mechanical refrigeration
122
John Gorrie; 1803-1855, Ice (Manufacture), Apalachicola (Fla.)
Flying hero of the Alps
124
Hermann GEIGER, Aviation (Mountain flying)
Grand prix of the lawn-mower racers
130
Automobile racing
How we'll steer in space
137
Space flight
Photocopying the easy way
166
Photography (Copying)
Photolight standards
173
Photography (Light and lighting)
How to shape trees
174
Fruit trees
Shooting tips
178
Shooting
Repair tips you should know
180
Repairing
Circular saws
183
Saws and sawing
Lamps, interior and exterior
189
Electric lamps
Low-cost storm shutter awning
192
Awnings
Work saving livestock feeders
196
Cattle feeders
Grinding with sound
201
Grinding, Ultrasonic waves (Industrial use)
Make this bending brake for your shop
206
Bending machines

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