Harmsworth Popular Science

Cover of the final issue

Harmsworth Popular Science was a fortnightly (14 days) series of magazine publications forming an encyclopaedic series of science and technology articles published in the early years of the 20th century, and completed about 1913.

It was humanist and modernist in tone, and supported the then-fashionable ideas of eugenics and free market economics. Britain (especially Birmingham) was then considered by the British people to be "the workshop of the world" and the magazine duly celebrated British technical and cultural innovation from Charles Darwin to Guglielmo Marconi.

Editions

Spine of Harmsworth Popular Science Volume, c.1913

There may have been several bound editions of Harmsworth Popular Science, (probably containing edited reprints of magazine articles) and one of them (undated), is in red cloth and leather completed in seven volumes. The edition was edited by Arthur Mee and published in London by the Educational Book Company.

Volume One contained a foreword entitled "The Story of This Book" which outlines the various groups:

Editors

As well as Arthur Mee, the other editors included:

Gallery

References

  1. W Beach Thomas from Spartacus Educational, retrieved 17 January 2015
  2. John Derry from The National Archives (United Kingdom), retrieved 17 January 2015
  3. Pictures by Wireless from New York Times, retrieved 17 January 2015
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