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I remember reading Popular Mechanics magazine 65 or more years ago. They ran ads fairly often for someone's new invention that would let automobiles get 100 or more miles per gallon. I stopped reading that magazine long ago, so I don't know when they stopped publishing those ads, if ever, or even if the magazine still exists.

I had to check, and found out that Popular Mechanics is still being published 122 years after its first issue in 1902. I also read Popular Science (still going strong), Science Digest (it died in 1988), and Scientific American (still alive after its birth in 1845).

I remember wondering when I saw those adds for 100 mpg. auto mileage in Popular Mechanics why they were being publicized in a magazine instead of on the auto showroom floors. And now I know.

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