# Armchair Science

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right|thumb|''Armchair Science'', first issue April 1929.
right|thumb|''Armchair Science'', August 1940

'''''Armchair Science''''' was a [British](/source/UK) monthly [journal](/source/Magazine) of topical and [popular science](/source/popular_science) articles published from 1929 to 1940; it ceased publication because of wartime paper shortages.  The first editor was A. Percy Bradley, a [mechanical engineer](/source/mechanical_engineer) associated with [Brooklands](/source/Brooklands), then [Professor A. M. Low](/source/Archibald_Low).   Issue one included: “Wonders of the Night Sky”; “How Flowers Breed and How they Fade”; “We Eat Bad Cheese, and why not Bad Meat?”; and “What is Noise?”.  It cost one shilling, later reduced to sixpence.  The publisher was [Gale & Polden](/source/Gale_%26_Polden) Ltd, [London](/source/London).

It reported the splitting of the [atom](/source/atom), the chemical identification of [Vitamin C](/source/Vitamin_C), the finishing of the [Dutch](/source/Netherlands) dam around the [Zuyder Zee](/source/Zuyder_Zee) and developments in [television](/source/television).  Looking to the future it asked “Are [Whale](/source/Whale)s Doomed?”, discussed the possibility of [stereoscopic](/source/Stereoscopy) [cinema](/source/film), and reported [biofuels](/source/biofuels) and power from the sea.

Its editor in 1940, [Stuart Macrae](/source/Stuart_Macrae_(inventor)), went on to produce weapons for the war effort as part of [MD1](/source/MD1), known also as "Churchill's Toyshop".

==References==
* ''Armchair Science'' various issues
* Peter J. Bowler (2006) ''British Journal for the History of Science'' vol 39 no 2 pages 159–187, June 2006. "Experts and publishers: writing popular science in early twentieth-century Britain, writing popular history of science now"

Category:Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Category:Science and technology magazines published in the United Kingdom
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Category:Magazines disestablished in 1940
Category:Defunct popular science magazines

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