Harmsworth Popular Science
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[citation needed], 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.
[citation needed] 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.
[citation needed] Volume One contained a foreword entitled "The Story of This Book" which outlines the various groups: As well as Arthur Mee, the editors included:
