Popular Mechanics - USA (2020-11 & 2020-12)

“phantom tube” used for optical illusions, and a foam-core model of the magic table he created for Disney’s latest stage renditi ...

tional rope-a-dope magicians use, suggesting one thing—See these rings? Solid metal, right?—before doing another. I ask where hi ...

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naturally—he needed to be on his own. Today, running his own business requires an aston- ishingly disparate set of skills. Some ...

“Irma,” the ghost operating the grand piano, and she nails my softball request (“Hotel California”). The energy ramps up once th ...

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BY ROB KEMP PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATE PETERS ◀ The tunnels consist of two portions—a larger upper level, where growing and processing ...

in a complex of bomb shelters left abandoned since World War II, something is growing. Thousands of green sprouts burst from the ...

▼ Workers check the progress of crops in the growing tunnel. November/December 2020 47 ...

size produce such as carrots or bok choy could be grown here, but they take too long to grow to make them profitable. However, m ...

The result is a compact, intensely f lavored product grown in a short time in conditions that not only suit the plant but meet t ...

ventional field farming,” says Moseley. The night before a harvest, workers put the plants on carts in the middle of the farm, w ...

members of the public shown around on Saturday after- noons. “We’ve had farmers from Scotland, mainland Europe, and as far as Am ...

How Hollywood Set Designers Hid America’s WWII Aircraft Factories BY CORY GRAFF 52 November/December 2020 ...

November/December 2020 53 ◀ In the Army’s greatest cover-up, Boeing’s Plant 2 disappeared under a 26-acre suburb of burlap, chic ...

54 November/December 2020 A AS THE SUN ROSE OVER THE HORIZON, a Japanese aviator worked to get his bearings above enemy territor ...

November/December 2020 55 planes and guns their chance. In the bookkeeping of war, that possibility is worth any cost.” Ohmer’s ...

56 November/December 2020 NORTH AMERICAN: INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA 16,447 Including 9,949 P-51 Mustang fighters, 3,208 B-25 bombers ...

November/December 2020 57 speed, cost, and the rarity of wartime materials, many of the rooftop houses were only about 6 feet ta ...

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