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

Movie magic in the making
801
Motion pictures (Setting and scenery)
Sherlock Holmes returns
809
B. C. FARRER, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Charles Lindbergh (Jr.) (Kidnapping), Identification
How fast can you stop?
813
Automobiles (Safety measures), Brakes, Automobile
Dare-devil water bug riders
818
Motor boat racing
Mysteries of epidemics attacked by science
824
Epidemics, Poliomyelitis, Medical research

Millionth part of an inch
830
Carl Edward JOHANSSON, Measurement
Animal and bird figures made from gourds
833
Gourds
Radio tube racket exposed
834
Racketeering, Radio tubes
New television system uses magnetic lens
838
Television
They have not died in vain
840
SAFETY at sea, Shipwrecks
Gun-train guards ends of Panama canal
844
Panama Canal
Uncle Sam backs home building
850
United States Federal Housing Administration, Loans
They shoot 'em anyways!
856
Photography, Journalistic
Fort of four nations
867
Fort Niagara (N.Y.)
Theater on wheels brings play to audience
870
Touring theater
Sound sleuths battle noise
874
Noise

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