Popular Science Publishing Company. Publisher: Godfrey Hammond. Editor: Robert P. Crossley
The cover shows a "ground effect machine" designed and flown by Dr. William R. Bertelsen. [1] The cover story is "Here Come Cars Without Wheels" by a Popular Science editor, Martin Man, with photos by Robert Borst. The cover illustration is based on the photos by Borst.
Popular Science Monthly was founded in 1872 and published as a scientific journal until September 1915. The title was sold to the Modern Publishing Company of New York and their Electrician and Mechanic / World's Advance magazine assumed the title in October 1915. The magazine is still published today (2008).
Source
Source: The source was not provided when the image was uploaded but it appears to be from Dr. William R. Bertelsen paper "50 Years of Aeronautical Research by Aeromobile Inc." [2] The 1959 issues of Popular Science are readily available on online auction sites.
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This 1959 issue of Popular Science Monthly would have to be renewed in 1986. These records are in the online catalog found here: http://www.copyright.gov/records . Search the catalog for the title Popular Science. The renewal records have a Copyright Number that starts with RE. There is one for a single article from the February 1958 issue (RE0000302010) but no others for the 1950s.
The copyright on the magazine was not renewed and it is in the public domain.
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