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

Decorate your yard and home with Walt Disney's Christmas mobile
69
Christmas decorations, Outdoor, Mobiles (Sculpture)
Where even Santa gets ideas
76
George SILVESTRI, Christmas decorations, Toys
How to get a good man down
80
Space vehicles (Landing and recovery, Safety measures)
So you don't remember Pearl Harbor?
84
War (Ethical aspects), United States (Defenses)
High explosives on the highways
88
Explosives (Transportation), Fire prevention
Poor man's back-yard whirlybird
132
B. J. SCHRAMM, Helicopters
Two rooms from one
137
Children's rooms, Furniture, Built in, Walls
Three pull-apart pull toys
143
Toys
How to take better Christmas pictures
146
Children (Photographs)
Nailing tips to lengthen life of your new redwood siding
153
Nails

Brain surgery by computer
94
Lars LEKSELL, Brain (Surgery), Medicine (Computer use), Paralysis
Expert's blueprint for successful inventing
102
Inventions
British skybikers take to the air
106
Flying machines
Giant stage that shifts for itself
110
Metropolitan Opera House (New York, N.Y.), Opera (Stage machinery)
Look what they're doing with magnets
116
Magnets
ABCs of carburetion
120
Carburetors
Ski parallel in one day
126
Clif TAYLOR, Skiing (Study and teaching)

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