Science and Technology Nauka i Tehnika #23 1937

Original vintage Soviet constructivist magazine Science and Technology Nauka i Tehnika #23 December 1937. Nauka i Tehnika was a monthly magazine on scientific and technical breakthroughs in the USSR. The cover features a drawing of The Short Mayo Composite, a piggy-back long-range seaplane/flying boat combination produced by Short Brothers to provide a reliable long-range air transport service to North America and, potentially, to other distant places in the British Empire and the Commonwealth with planes Short S.21 Maia and Short S.20 Mercury. The issue includes articles about flooding of western Turkmenistan; modern artillery; lacquer wood, and its use; synthetic rubber; production of ammonium and sulphur sulphate; rocket technology; fog and smoke control using ultrasound; single-bladed propeller; construction of the Lincoln Tunnel, an approximately 1.5-mile-long tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey, to the west with Midtown Manhattan in New York City to the east, constructed in 1937. Published by Lenoblgorlit, 15 pages. Good condition, browning, stain, pencil marks.