Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics Magazine (until the n° 667 of July 1959) then Popular Mechanics then until today, is an American magazine devoted to the Science and the Technologie. It was published for the first time the January 11th 1902 per H.H. Windsor, and is held since the Fifties by Hearst Corporation. There was a Latin-American version which was published during decades, a French version and recently a South-African version.

The American version was published by the son of H.H. Windsor and the chief technical officer was R.M. Grant. It was recorded with Chicago, Illinois.

French edition

The monthly French version bore the name of popular Mécanique and was diffused for the French-speaking world of the time (France and colonies, Belgium and Belgian Congo, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine) after the Second world war.

This review contained a first general practitioner part at the technical level and a part “For the handyman” including/understanding of the plans of achievements of domestic applications and leisures.

The articles were abundantly equipped with photographs, drawn illustrations and plans for the projects to realize or the articles of technical and scientific speculation (aviation on vertical takeoff).

In addition to the monthly numbers, pluieurs time left per annum the special issues known as out of the ordinary dedicated to a kind like the photograph, the car, the workshop of the handyman, the sailing ships, the camp-site,…

Synopsis drawn from the n° 43 of December 1949 (Vol.7 - N°6)

In this number:

the pioneers of the atomic era
Alice poses: “With the country of the Pilot wonders”
of rockets
a ship which is carried by the air
a diving to 1350 m of depth
Lecture, writing and aviation
Objets d'art in wire
time on order
Emballages out of rubber

For the handyman:

For Christmas, innovations musical for children
Build a boat on ice
the furnishing of your dining room (2nd part)
to extract the maximum of your heating appliances
an enlarger with a camera
portable Remonte-pente
Petit course from arc cutting
Radio-récepteur super-miniature

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • Official site
  • All covers of the American version

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