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

Our new schools of war
1
United States Army (Education), Mechanics (Persons)
Knife-edged streamliner hits 100-mile speed
6
Locomotives
Keeping 'em flying
8
Flags, American flag
Flying ferry for tanks: Lockheed's Constellation transport plane
12
Airplanes, Military transport
Keep the patient comfortable
14
Nurses and nursing
It's raining soldiers
19
United States Army (Parachute troops)
Set 'er down in your back yard
28
Igor Sikorsky, Helicopters
Mystery of the common cold
34
Cold (Disease), Medical research
Backyard flock will solve your meat problem
40
Poultry
Sailors of the air fly barrage balloons
46
Balloons, Military

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