# Modern Mechanix v17n05 \[1937-03\]

Modern Mechanix v17n05 \[1937-03\]. This was a monthly scientific publication which covered hobbies and inventions of the day. This issue contains a number of interesting stories such as: Edison's Famous Insomnia Squad; a Guest Editorial by J. Edgar Hoover on the value of fingerprint identification; Major Alexander P. de Seversky, Flying Inventor; Sound Engineers of NBC Radio studios; preparing for the 1939 New York World's Fair; model aircraft building; plus much more. Well illustrated throughout and containing many period advertisements.

- Kind: Magazine
- Series: Modern Mechanix
- Year: 1937
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/mm.3703)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can read it: Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says)

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