First issued in 1872, POPULAR SCIENCE is still being published today, and you can click here to subscribe. Their website is well worth looking at. You can buy your own historical issues of the magazine: Search eBay for issues of POPULAR SCIENCE.
What can we say about this magazine that isn't obvious just from looking at the covers? It started out as a dry, technical magazine for the popular academic audience. By late 1915, with declining circulation, the publisher sold the title, and a new, popularized version came out (what had been WORLD'S ADVANCE now continued under the POPULAR SCIENCE name). The original magazine continued under the name of SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY, lasting until 1958 when it was merged into SCIENCE. This was confusing then, and it is confusing now; thanks to Michael Holley for extricating the publishing history of these magazines.
To illustrate the change, we include two 1915/16 issues even though they are not of our usual minimum quality; they are the best we have. The last items in this album are the covers of WORLD'S ADVANCE from just before the change (again, sorry about the poor quality, but it's all we have), and the cover of the new magazine SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY, for reference; note the similarity to early issues of POPULAR SCIENCE.
- Popular Science 1885-01 3600 visits
- Popular Science 1915-09 2777 visits
- Popular Science 1915-11 2254 visits
- Popular Science 1916-04 2530 visits
- Popular Science 1916-08 2347 visits
- Popular Science 1917-03 3154 visits
- Popular Science 1917-05 2368 visits
- Popular Science 1919-02 2851 visits
- Popular Science 1919-05 2838 visits
- Popular Science 1920-07 2776 visits
- Popular Science 1920-09 2944 visits
- Popular Science 1921-06 2615 visits
- Popular Science 1921-10 2985 visits
- Popular Science 1921-11 1526 visits
- Popular Science 1922-01 2382 visits
- Popular Science 1922-03 3312 visits
- Popular Science 1922-05 1229 visits
- Popular Science 1922-06 1940 visits
- Popular Science 1922-09 2588 visits
- Popular Science 1922-11 1501 visits
- Popular Science 1923-01 2356 visits
- Popular Science 1923-06 1793 visits
- Popular Science 1924-02 1973 visits
- Popular Science 1924-03 2114 visits
- Popular Science 1924-06 1893 visits
- Popular Science 1924-08 1180 visits
- Popular Science 1924-10 1313 visits
- Popular Science 1925-01 2165 visits
- Popular Science 1925-02 2344 visits
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- Popular Science 1925-10 1129 visits
- Popular Science 1926-01 1901 visits
- Popular Science 1926-03 1680 visits
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- Popular Science 1926-11 1543 visits
- Popular Science 1927-01 1598 visits
- Popular Science 1927-02 1430 visits
- Popular Science 1927-05 2170 visits
- Popular Science 1927-07 2069 visits
- Popular Science 1927-08 1466 visits
- Popular Science 1928-01 1609 visits
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- Popular Science 1928-06 1544 visits
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- Popular Science 1929-10 1600 visits
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- Popular Science 1930-11 1427 visits
- Popular Science 1931-01 1570 visits
- Popular Science 1931-04 2184 visits
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- Popular Science 1932-06 925 visits
- Popular Science 1932-09 1335 visits
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- Popular Science 1932-12 1535 visits
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- Popular Science 1933-07 921 visits
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- Popular Science 1934-11 1871 visits