Long before that fateful November day, the television landscape was crowded with inventors competing for the title to the as-yet unproven but promising medium. Despite his eventual defeat, Baird ...

The cover of Popular Science‘s November 1936 issue featuring breakthrough inventions and early DIY tips. Some text has been edited to match contemporary standards and style.

In the July 1931 issue of Popular Science, writer George H. Waltz described television as “the miracle field of sending pictures through the air.”Nearly a century later, television ...

In yet another sign of its decline, Popular Science has stopped publishing its online magazine, three years after it shut its storied print edition, which began in 1872.