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

P separates the ranchers from the cowboys
90
Station wagons
How you look to a truck driver
93
Automobile drivers, Truck drivers
Those fast, new trains in U.S. and Canada, they'd never make it in Japan!
98
High speed trains, Railroads (Train speed)
PM owners report
102
Buick Le Sabre
Build this new four-place cabin plane for $3500
112
Jim Bede, Airplane industry
They're awful mean to those little tractors!
142
Tractors (Rating)
Simple checker for semiconductors
146
Semiconductors (Rating)
Dry-mount your favorite photos for display
148
Photographs (Trimming, mounting, etc)
How to check distributor vacuum advance
152
Automobile engines (Ignition)
Handsome garden paths and walkways
162
Garden walks (Paths), Pavements

How to build a whale
118
ZOOLOGICAL models
Mechanics of medicine: new tools for mending hearts
120
Heart, Artificial
PM tests
124
Rugged new camper, a controversial new park
From Florida to Cape Cod without moving
128
Jacques Ernest Piccard; 1922-., Oceanographic submersibles, Gulf Stream
Will the Eagles scream again?
132
Automobiles, Racing
New camp rigs for '69
138
Campers, Truck

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