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A nearly complete archive of Popular Mechanics issues from 1905 through 2005 is available [45] [46] through Google Books. Popular Mechanics' cover art is the subject of Tom Burns' 2015 Texas Tech PhD dissertation, titled Useful fictions: How Popular Mechanics builds technological literacy through magazine cover illustration. [47]
Popular Mechanics called it a "labor of love" and said it was "the sort of thing that not everyone can digest, but is utterly fascinating to those that can". [ 3 ] Since its release, the film has been cited by multiple academic works on the topic of computing history and internet culture.
Henry Haven Windsor (November 13, 1859 – May 11, 1924), American writer, magazine editor, and publisher, was the founder and first editor of Popular Mechanics.He was succeeded as editor by his son, Henry Haven Windsor, Jr (1898–1965).
Benjamin Chertoff is a journalist, photographer and video producer. He is most known for his work on the Popular Mechanics article 9/11: Debunking The Myths.He also created the Popular Mechanics Show, the weekly podcast of Popular Mechanics magazine. [1]
Popular Mechanics for Kids (sometimes abbreviated to PMK) is a Canadian educational television program based on the Popular Mechanics magazine. [ 1 ] The program aired on Global TV from 1997 until 2000, with re-runs airing on BBC Kids Canada until its closure in 2018.
On many of his earlier road tests, his wife Cynthia would accompany him as his photographer and almost always his black Labrador Retriever, "Boji". [citation needed] His later assistant was professional driver and photographer Jim McMichael who was photographed sitting—or lying—in the trunk of so many test cars McCahill eventually began calling him the " official trunk tester".
The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics had the Altair computer on the cover and this launched the home computer revolution. (However, Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs incorrectly identified the magazine that ran the article as Popular Mechanics.) The magazine was digest size (6.5 in × 9 in) for the first 20 years.
The Internet Archive is an American non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. [2] [3] [4] It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials.