Popular Mechanics: 11 books

**“. . . readers will count on Popular Mechanics’ advice.” —Booklist (starred review) For any home repair, big or small, homeowners can turn to this practical and portable reference.   Got a squeaky floor or a rattling door? Is your grout a color you don’t recognize anymore? From...

**From the trustworthy experts at Popular Mechanics comes the definitive guide to hand tools and how to use them. “The expert and enthusiastic editors at Popular Mechanics have created a ‘definitive guide’ to the baffling world of tools. . . . [an] exceptionally instructive and upbeat...

Popular Mechanics**' ultimate survival manual will teach you the essential skills to protect your family, save yourself, and conquer any possible danger.** In an emergency, would you know how to survive—to purify water, jump-start a car, escape a flood or fire, forage for firewood, protect...

An absorbing and enlightening inside look at sports secrets—now in an updated and expanded edition! What makes an athlete successful? Why do some players excel? In this new, expanded edition, the experts at Popular Mechanics, along with top athletes, coaches, and sports journalists, explore the...

These vintage craftwork projects date from a simpler time, when people were more likely to make their own amusements rather than buy them. Drawn from Popular Mechanics magazines of the 1940s, The Boy Mechanic features a tremendous variety of well-illustrated projects. They range from the practical...

From creating artificial pearls to building a steam boiler, these vintage projects for indoors and outdoors offer a tremendous range of possibilities. Over 250 classic plans and instructions explain how to make model airplanes, greeting cards, a motion-picture camera, a radiophone, a cipher code,...

A decade after the World Trade Center disaster, rampant speculation abounds on what actually happened. Wild talk flourishes on the Internet, TV, and radio. Was the Pentagon really struck by a missile? Was the untimely death of Barry Jennings, who witnessed the collapse of Tower 7 and thought he heard...

The projects in Handy Projects for Boys first appeared in a major collection arranged by the editors of Popular Mechanics Press in 1913. During this time period, the methods and techniques used to create these items were just as important to the boys and men building them as the final projects themselves....

The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 by Popular Mechanics Company.Many projects are of contemporary interest—magic, kites and boomerangs for example. Try a "Querl" for starters.There are many projects of purely historical interest, such as chemical photography, phonographs, and devices for coal furnaces.

Popular 1911 manual offers complete designs and instructions for making 18 authentic Mission lighting fixtures: chandeliers, reading lamps, droplights, desk lamps, dome fixtures, more. Complete, easy-to-follow instructions with measurements, illustrated with over 75 working drawings, diagrams and figures. No elaborate tools required. Minimal outlay for materials and equipment.

How to construct wireless outfits, boats, camp equipment, aerial gliders, kites, self-propelled vehicles engines, motors, electrical apparatus, cameras and hundreds of other things which delight every boy.