Mechanics' Magazine
| Mechanics' Magazine | |
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| description | Science journal |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Knight & Lacey ( England ) |
| First edition | August 30, 1823 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| editor | Joseph Clinton Robertson (1787-1852) |
Mechanics' Magazine was a weekly science magazine published by Knight & Lacey, 24 Paternoster Row, London, since August 30, 1823.
history
The initiator of the magazine, publisher and editor was Joseph Clinton Robertson , who used an exception to the stamp duty for weekly publications that did not contain daily news during production and distribution and, in an early form of crowdsourcing, regularly printed letters to the editor as continuation articles without paying the authors. In this way it was possible for the first time to offer a really inexpensive weekly scientific publication for three pence . As early as 1824 it had a print run of 16,000 copies. The magazine experienced a successful development until 1850, after which it lost contact with its readers. In the 1860s the magazine had different owners and disappeared from the market in late 1872. The resulting supply gap was closed by the English Mechanics magazine, which has been published since March 31, 1865 .
literature
- DJ Smith: A History of “English Mechanics” . In: English Mechanics . January 18, 1924 ( englishmechanic.com (PDF) [accessed July 11, 2015]).
Web links
- Annual overview of the digitized editions available on ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online
- Mechanics Magazine anthology 2, numbers 27 to 56 (February 1824 to September 1824)
- Mechanics Magazine anthology 8, numbers 204 to 231 (July 1827 to January 1828)
- Mechanics Magazine anthology 97, numbers 2499 through 2517 (July 1872 through December 1872)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laurel Brake, Marysa Demoor (ed.): Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism . The British Library, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-7123-5039-6 , pp. 405 ff . ( books.google.de [accessed on July 14, 2015]).