Description: (Science) Modern Mechanix & Inventions Magazine: Modern Mechanix & Inventions Magazine: Magazine. Mechanix Illustrated, Louisville, KY. 1934. B&W Illustrations: Good This is a slightly larger than trade paperback magazine. The magazine is in Good only condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The magazine covers have edge wear, tears, nicks, and smallish chips. The spine ends of the magazine have chunks missing. Articles include: How a Skyscraper Window Washer Faces Death by Fred A. Belt, Undersea Pipe Line Loads Oil Tanker, FBuilding Speed Planes for World's Greated Air Race by WIlliam Jennings, Uncle Sam's W-A-R Rules Nation's Radio Network by RObert W. Gordon, The Amazing Story of Boulder Dam by Mel Wharton, ROy Chapman Andrews - Hunter of Stone Age Mammoths by Alfred Albelli, and more. "From its debut in 1928, it went through a number of permutations over the years, being called at various points in its life, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, Modern Mechanix and Inventions, Modern Mechanix, Mechanix Illustrated, Home Mechanix, and, in its final incarnation, Today's Homeowner. Although it featured many how-to articles, the most eagerly awaited and read features were Tom McCahill's monthly automobile tests which ran from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. McCahill's feisty opinions were delivered in a prose laced with similes that are still quoted today among car enthusiasts: "As anyone brighter than a rusty spike must know..." ; flooring the accelerator pedal on a certain car is "...like stepping on a wet sponge"; the clock/tachometer combination on another car is "...about as useful as feathers on a moose." McCahill died in 1974, and three years later CBS bought Fawcett Publications, the company which published MI, and continued publishing the magazine, renaming it Home Mechanix starting in January 1985. In August, 1996, it was again renamed as Today's Homeowner, and ceased publication with the March/April issue in 2001, being merged into sister publication This Old House. " (From Wikipedia) 2 132 #42064 $20
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Author: Modern Mechanix & Inventions Magazine
Book Title: Modern Mechanix & Inventions Magazine
Cover: Magazine
Language: English
Publisher: Mechanix Illustrated
Publication Year: 1934
Place Published: Louisville, KY
Pages: 154p.
Topic: Science
Format: Magazine
Book Condition: Good
Defects: This is a slightly larger than trade paperback magazine. The, magazine is in Good only condition and was issued without a, dust jacket. The magazine covers have edge wear, tears, nicks,, and smallish chips. The spine ends of the magazine have chunks, missing. Articles include: How a Skyscraper Window Washer Faces, Death by Fred A. Belt, Undersea Pipe Line Loads Oil Tanker,, FBuilding Speed Planes for World's Greated Air Race by WIlliam, Jennings, Uncle Sam's W-A-R Rules Nation's Radio Network by, RObert W. Gordon, The Amazing Story of Boulder Dam by Mel, Wharton, ROy Chapman Andrews - Hunter of Stone Age Mammoths by, Alfred Albelli, and more. "From its debut in 1928, it went, through a number of permutations over the years, being called, at various points in its life, Modern Mechanics and Inventions,, Modern Mechanix and Inventions, Modern Mechanix, Mechanix, Illustrated, Home Mechanix, and, in its final incarnation,, Today's Homeowner. Although it featured many how-to articles,, the most eagerly awaited and read features were Tom McCahill's, monthly automobile tests which ran from the late 1940s to the, early 1970s. McCahill's feisty opinions were delivered in a, prose laced with similes that are still quoted today among car, enthusiasts: "As anyone brighter than a rusty spike must, know..." ; flooring the accelerator pedal on a certain car is, "...like stepping on a wet sponge"; the clock/tachometer, combination on another car is "...about as useful as feathers, on a moose." McCahill died in 1974, and three years later CBS, bought Fawcett Publications, the company which published MI,, and continued publishing the magazine, renaming it Home, Mechanix starting in January 1985. In August, 1996, it was, again renamed as Today's Homeowner, and ceased publication with, the March/April issue in 2001, being merged into sister
Illustration Type: B&W Illustrations
Binding: Magazine
Subject: Science
Place of Publication: Louisville, KY
Year Printed: 1934
