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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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Skyscrapers of the future
177
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago, Ill.), Building, Building materials
Six miles per minute seen by master driver
181
Automobile racing
Beware the motor oil gyp!
186
Lubrication and lubricants
Man who bet on his dreams
194
Walter Percy Chrysler; 1875-1940
Fortunes for new garden flowers
202
Plants (Breeding)
Big city animal trapping
258
Wildlife conservation
Liner built like city has own Main street
267
Ocean liners
Secrets of the master spies
274
Spies
Coffee by pipe line
283
Coffee, Pipelines
Utility cabinet for short wave listeners
291
Radio receivers (Cabinets)

Riding on lazy air with new super-balloon tires
210
Tires, Automobile
On the bridge in a storm
219
Navigation, Storms
Portrait
226
Karl Taylor Compton; 1887-1954
Machines, masters or slaves?
226
Machinery
Portrait
226
William Green; 1870-1952
Portrait
227
James Henry Breasted (American Egyptologist and historian.); 1865-1935
Portrait
227
Arthur Dehon Little
Portrait
227
Willis Rodney Whitney (American chemist.); 1868-1958
Mystery of the singing sands
235
Singing sands
Portrait
235
Bertram THOMAS
His hobby is collecting of animal tracks
239
Charles A. URNER, Animal tracks and trails
X boats war on smugglers
242
United States Coast Guard, Smuggling
World's largest theater in Rockefeller Center will seat six thousand persons
252
Radio City Music Hall (New York, N.Y.), Theater buildings
Five-tube midget uses high-gain tubes
296
Radio receivers
Installing receiver switch at remote speaker
298
Radio receivers
Spin a diabolo for fun
299
Diabolo (Game)
There's real sport in canoe sailing
303
Boatbuilding, Canoes and canoeing
Big fish takes the air
309
Kites
Simple styles in awnings
312
Awnings
Suggestions on making better pictures
323
Photography
Gardens that bloom in the night
328
Gardens and gardening (Lighting)
Homemade saw table is adjustable
333
Saws and sawing
Small immersion heaters for the laboratory
335
Electrochemical equipment
Tricks of soldering
337
Solder and soldering
Small greenhouse for all-year gardening
341
Greenhouses
Equipping the home workshop
344
Workbenches, Workshops

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