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

Items from all outdoors
34
Game preserves
Highly skilled specialists needed for today's cars
48
Automobile mechanics (Persons)
Detroit would hardly know 'em
82
Automobiles
Crash need not be fatal
97
Airplanes (Safety measures), Aviation (Accidents)
Eye on space
102
Communications satellites
PM's eight all-time great classic cars
160
Automobiles
Automobiles of 1961
169
Automobiles
Imported cars, 1961
179
Automobiles, Foreign
That beautiful stuff called snow
186
Automobile driving
Show-off utensil rack
193
Kitchen utensils and appliances (Storage)

We discover a phantom coast
105
Antarctic regions
Upside down world
114
Vision
At home to wild animals
117
Carl O. Jr MARTY, Animals (Training)
Is our atomic stockpile dangerous?
124
Nuclear weapons (Accidents)
Trumpet alley, no place for a fat man
130
Amsterdam (Netherlands) (Streets)
My most exciting moment
133
Computers
Space age hospital
134
Hospital equipment, Long Beach (Calif.) (Hospitals)
What you should know about your car battery
138
Storage batteries
PM's ninth annual auto section '61
145
Automobiles
Comparing the new '61 compacts
147
Automobiles
Engineer analyzes the 1961 cars
152
Automobiles (Design)
Engines
155
Automobile engines
Transmissions
157
Automobiles (Transmission)
It goes with your fireplace
196
Fireplaces (Equipment)
Portable photo backdrop
202
Photography (Equipment)
Keep live baits lively
204
Fishing (Equipment)
Shake hands with a paint mitt
206
Painting, Industrial and practical
From East to West
208
Screens (Furniture)
Fire bellows
211
Bellows
One good turn
212
Lazy Susans
Docking lights mean safer boating
214
Boats and boating (Lighting)
Easy pickin's
217
Bird feeders
Shop uses for rigid plastic
218
Plastics
How-to with twist drills
222
Drills
Reducing noise in your car radio
228
Radio interference

Common terms and phrases