Popular Mechanics
October 1920: a dockside crane picking an entire railway carriage up into the air as though it were nothing at all. Inside, several hundred small facts and a workshop section that assumes you own a vice.
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Popular Mechanics
“Written so you can understand it” — the promise sits on the cover of every issue and they absolutely meant it. September 1926 leads with the tailless airplane and then tells you how to make about forty other things.
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August 1927, and the cover is a boy marching in a parade playing a horn built entirely out of kitchen utensils. “A Kitchen Kabinet Band”, page 235 — written so you can understand it.
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April 1928: a streamlined launch throwing spray across the cover, and inside on page 655, how to build an all-electric set — a radio that ran off the house current instead of a shelf of batteries.
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“Neptune’s Battering Rams”, page 620 — October 1928 opens with a liner taking a sea clean over the bow, and then quietly explains about forty other things.
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March 1929: a low, long car running a measured mile down hard wet sand with the spray coming off its wheels, and a note at the bottom of the cover to see page 370.
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September 1929, page 368 — a biplane crossing above two lit-up liners, in the magazine whose whole promise was printed under its own name: written so you can understand it.
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