Science and Technology Nauka i Tehnika #51 1925

Original vintage Soviet constructivist magazine Science and Technology Nauka i Tehnika #51 December 1931. Nauka i Tehnika was a monthly magazine on scientific and technical breakthroughs in the USSR. The cover features a new lighting method in the US using electric lighting production. The issue includes articles about a new way to treat infertility; a century of photography with portraits of Nicephore Niepce, a French inventor, usually credited as the inventor of photography and a pioneer in that field, and Louis Mande Daguerre, a French artist, and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography; flying boats; air transport of the future; a new star in the constellation of the Pictor; modern explosives and their applications; a new rectifier; the 150th anniversary of the Leningrad Mining Institute; the study of Lake Imandra, a lake in the south-western part of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast, Russia; the volcanoes of Hawaii Island, and other scientific news, accompanied by illustrations and schemes. Published by Leningradsky Gublit, 24 pages. Poor condition, the spine and some pages are loose, tears on the spine, browning.