For sale is a December 1932 edition of POPULAR SCIENCE MAGAZINE, Volume 121, no 6. Cover features a futuristic Air Drive Automobile that reaches the unheard of speed of 80 mph. A cool science and technology focused magazine with articles on “Find Mysterious Error in Speed of Light”; “How One Man Built a $50,000 Home”; “Blast of Giant Atom Created Our Universe; and others. How about a bike that you can ride on land or water? Magazine has interesting adverts for Camel Cigarettes, How to be a Detective, and Body Building. Magazine is complete with all 112 pages but has some soiling and edge wear consistent with age. Overall good condition for magazine older than 75 years. Magazine measures 8 1/2 inches by 11 1/2 inches and would frame well. A great ephemera collectible.
The Popular Science Monthly was founded in May 1872 by Edward L. Youmans to disseminate scientific knowledge to the educated layman. The journal became an outlet for writings and ideas of Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Louis Pasteur, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and Thomas Edison.
