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If not at your dealer’s, write us. SIMMONS HARDWARE COMPANY (Ine.), St. Louis and New York, U. S. A. Please Mention Popular MechanicsEEE EES EE Se H. H. WINDSOR, Editor 225 Washingtor St., CHICAGO, U.S.A. righted, 1909, by HH, Windsor. Exchange Editors are at liberty to quote from these Copyrighted, y srpes beets ae ry to qi pages by giving CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1909 Germany Prepares to Fight Airships 303 Gets Doctor's Ald by Wireless. Iceboats Tow utomobiles. Training Men for Rescue Werk in Mine House with Tree= DUsASLers ee ec eencensenaneetennnnnses 420 ind Modeling on California America’s First Raliroad” ‘Track Built 100 That Is Not Vears Ago... geass 450 Vactinating New York's Municipal Lodgers 430 ‘Types of Army” Observation Devices... a8t Ant inge Steam Propelied’ Tee Auto. enfous Teapot Russian_Motor-Sieigh .. us a The Healing Powerot Radia = Nature Provides Largest Fountain Lineman's Protective Shield for High-Ten- Country a testes pote sion. Circuits i 399 Baseboarda Unnecessary with Cem r 499 Electric Rammer for Big Guns. A Ter Residence Section of Messina 100 The Color of arships......... &-Pyram arrels.. +48 Seoteh Pipe-Line Bulle by Germany Train Dispatching by ‘Telephone... we Dahorning of Cattle--. lat Deposit Box for Every Theatre Goer.. 403 Great Gun on hig New Ide jalling Tubs secces. 704 © Curious Locom bain_Cross-Cut Saw... .......... 436 Fyyenty: Foot, Hands tor Tower, Cloaks: <<1-. 43g Snakes Capture Ship Intact After Sei Buifeting... 437 Athletes — Breathin: Grinding Corozo Nuts for Valuable Oils Time-Signaling Attachment for Whistles ..ctcs cess ze Night-Signaling Auto Device. : he Future of Aerial Navigation. ni land ofo Hal Have Automobile Militia....... 409 Spraying Water_for ‘Turbine Plant. Beastie Banale: 409 Concrete Lamp Posts for Washington. 40 G: An Itallan ‘Torpedo Gost Destroyer: t:...-s#10 Searchit Cignt “Alcohol Fuel Locomotive............. 410 Flesttle” Apparatus oe Horse Made of Cavalry Equipmentsc..0 04 regen fer Brazing. eee Fish that Ie Nearly All Mouth... Electricity Used to Capture Head Hunters. 444 Belling Bg tices In Oregon essa River-Be _Brogpeeting in Call allfornias.cs22. 448 PurNauscMiror Scheme Tor ApeeseAt ae Electric Ships for Atlantic “te New" Lake Steamer Has-Many ‘Novel: Fea: Mechanical Section of Navy Electrical School 416 tures paiscatasacieida ag Shureh Bulle rom Ite Clay_Exeavatlon.... 418 kings and” Aviators... christen Al Combination Baggage Car and Snow Plow.. 438 First Ty = 8. Submarini Whale. 2408 line Passenger Car ....... és In Naval Warfare: \pparatus q German _Dirigibles Equipped with Guns.... 449 How to Make and Finish a Magazine Stand a j 482 Instrument Makes Record of Automobile’s ‘Speed reuse : 2 camel Corps. of indian Holla: jagazine for ti sae Shackleton Atmost Reaches. South Paid: Zeppelin's Greatest Flight 420 Gr First_Non-Magnetic Ship Ever Constructed 421 Train Wrecked 1 I Srafveseneceiic Sed Great Concrete Tank Built in Mexico...... 423 Hats_fr Cutting a Ship Channel Through Rock River im’a Noteele Sultan of Turkey to Wireless Room of U.S, S. “Gresham’. 436 arta erates fuelling Fire in Budapest Theatre...-°. 420 The"Gencrete Boat ridge Fwo -Glant-Fish Caught with Light Tackle mee ears Seldiers’ "to" Administer “their ‘Own “An: estroying Fog Fixtures for High Candiepower Electric Lamps. os Issued Monthly SUBSCRIPTION: In United States, and Its possessions, and Mexico, r, postpaid 1.00 To Canada and ail countrics in the Postal Union’ pet yout. posteald > S80 AU subscriptions are discontinued at expitation. Please examine the date printed on your wrapper. tared an Second Claas Mattor Sept. 15 1903. af the Bostofiea at Chicaen, Tiinnia, under Act of March i o ‘Published monehiy by BOBULAR MECHANIOS GOL "40" Act of March Sed. 1670 The attention of prospective advertisers Is called to the policy of this magazine In accord: ance with which the publisher walv laim for "payment of any “advert jsement appearing In Sny Issue where the number of copies actually printed and circulated ie less than the number printed on the front cover page. Single Copy 10 Cents