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A hundred pages a month of people cheerfully trying things.
The Special Aviation Issue for March 1929: planes for private flying, the builders of the aviation industry, and — thirty-five cents, no other qualification required — how to build a glider.
⬇ FREE PDF · 41.7 MB — at archive.org ↗Founded 1872, twenty-five cents, July 1929 — a man dwarfed by an aeroplane propeller, and a hundred and fifty pages of aviation, radio, automobiles, home building and the home workshop.
⬇ FREE PDF · 93.4 MB — at archive.org ↗November 1929 — “New Ideas in Aviation, Radio, Automobiles, Home Building, Engineering, Exploration and The Home Workshop”, which is this entire shelf listed on one cover for twenty-five cents.
⬇ FREE PDF · 21.5 MBOctober 1923, offering $12,000 in prizes for photographs of interesting things. A magazine whose whole editorial position was: go and look at something, then tell us.
⬇ FREE PDF · 16.6 MBA locomotive being craned along a work train in orange and green, February 1928 — and inside, “What Doctors Don’t Know About Diet” plus every new discovery and invention they could get to fit.
⬇ FREE PDF · 23.5 MBFebruary 1923, in full colour: a spear-fisherman and something very large meeting underwater, and along the bottom “Amazing Beauty of the First Successful Color Movies”. Two hundred and ninety-five pages of the future arriving.
⬇ FREE PDF · 38.2 MBHugo Gernsback’s other magazine, the one about the real world: a mountain valley strung with wire on the cover, “Harnessing Nature’s Electricity”, and a hundred pages of people cheerfully trying things.
⬇ FREE PDF · 20.1 MB📭 Nothing on this shelf yet — Popular Science is a space we have swept and labelled and not filled. Something will lean up against it soon; in the meantime there are 6 other categories on the 🔧 Useful shelf. ☕
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