Popular Science Publishing Company. Publisher: A. L. Cole. Editor: Raymond J. Brown.
Cover Art: Edgar Franklin Wittmack
This 8.5 by 11.5 inch (21.6 by 29.2 cm) magazine has 112 pages.
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 title was shortened to Popular Science in 1948 and the magazine is still published today (2008).
Works copyrighted before 1964 had to have the copyright renewed sometime in the 28th year. If the copyright was not renewed the work is in the public domain. It is best to search 6 months before and after the required year. Some magazines are published the month before the cover date and some registrations may be delayed for a few months.
This 1936 issue of Popular Science Monthly would have to be renewed in 1963. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/
The search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1962 through 1966 shows no renewal entries for Popular Science Monthly. The copyright on the magazine was not renewed and it is in the public domain.
(Note: The copyrights of The Popular, Popular Detective, Popular Educator, Popular Love, Popular Mechanics, Popular Romances, Popular Sports Magazine and Popular Western were renewed but not Popular Science Monthly.)
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The author died in 1956, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or fewer.
This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963 and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed.