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The Modern Publishing Company had purchased ''[[Electrician and Mechanic]]'' magazine in 1914 and over the next two years merged several magazines together into a science magazine for a general audience. The magazine had a series of name changes: ''Modern Electrics and Mechanics'', ''Popular Electricity and Modern Mechanics'', ''Modern Mechanics'' and finally ''World's Advance''. The publishers were still looking for a new name so they purchased ''Popular Science Monthly''. The October 1915 issue was titled ''Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance''. The volume number (Vol. 87, No. 4) was that of ''Popular Science'' but the content was that of ''World's Advance''. The new editor was [[Waldemar Kaempffert]], a former editor of ''Scientific American''.<ref name = 'NYTimes Aug 29 1915'> {{cite news | title = September's Harvest Of Important Books | work = The New York Times | page = BR312 | language = | date = August 29, 1915}} 'The Popular Science Monthly has been bought by the Modern Publishing Company of New York City…'</ref><ref name = 'ALA 1918'>{{cite book | last = Walter | first = Frank Keller | title = Periodicals for the Small Library | publisher = American Library Association | date = 1918 | pages =p. 24 |edition= 2nd edition | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=07tCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA24}} The new ''Popular Science Monthly'' is continued from ''World's Advance'', old version in now ''Scientific Monthly''.</ref> | The Modern Publishing Company had purchased ''[[Electrician and Mechanic]]'' magazine in 1914 and over the next two years merged several magazines together into a science magazine for a general audience. The magazine had a series of name changes: ''Modern Electrics and Mechanics'', ''Popular Electricity and Modern Mechanics'', ''Modern Mechanics'' and finally ''World's Advance''. The publishers were still looking for a new name so they purchased ''Popular Science Monthly''. The October 1915 issue was titled ''Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance''. The volume number (Vol. 87, No. 4) was that of ''Popular Science'' but the content was that of ''World's Advance''. The new editor was [[Waldemar Kaempffert]], a former editor of ''Scientific American''.<ref name = 'NYTimes Aug 29 1915'> {{cite news | title = September's Harvest Of Important Books | work = The New York Times | page = BR312 | language = | date = August 29, 1915}} 'The Popular Science Monthly has been bought by the Modern Publishing Company of New York City…'</ref><ref name = 'ALA 1918'>{{cite book | last = Walter | first = Frank Keller | title = Periodicals for the Small Library | publisher = American Library Association | date = 1918 | pages =p. 24 |edition= 2nd edition | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=07tCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA24}} The new ''Popular Science Monthly'' is continued from ''World's Advance'', old version in now ''Scientific Monthly''.</ref> | ||
| - | The change in ''Popular Science Monthly'' was dramatic. The old version was scholarly journal that had eight to ten articles in a 100 page issue. There would be ten to twenty photographs or illustrations. The new version had hundreds of short, easy to read articles with hundreds of illustrations. Editor Kaembffert was writing for 'the home craftsman and hobbyist who wanted to know something about the world of science.' The circulation doubled in the first year.<ref name = 'Mass Market'/> | + | The change in ''Popular Science Monthly'' was dramatic. The old version was a scholarly journal that had eight to ten articles in a 100 page issue. There would be ten to twenty photographs or illustrations. The new version had hundreds of short, easy to read articles with hundreds of illustrations. Editor Kaembffert was writing for 'the home craftsman and hobbyist who wanted to know something about the world of science.' The circulation doubled in the first year.<ref name = 'Mass Market'/> |
==[[Popular Science Predictions Exchange|PPX]]== | ==[[Popular Science Predictions Exchange|PPX]]== | ||
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