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, 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. 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: