A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond

An American writer and editor, A. Russell Bond published as Alexander Russell Bond and built his reputation on explaining science and technology in plain, engaging language. His work is closely tied to Scientific American, and records of his books show a long interest in invention, mechanics, and hands-on experimentation.

Bond wrote both instructional and narrative nonfiction, including The Scientific American Boy, Handy Man's Workshop and Laboratory, With the Men Who Do Things, Inventions of the Great War, and Mechanics: The Science of Machinery. These books suggest a writer who wanted readers not just to admire technology from a distance, but to understand how things worked and how new ideas changed everyday life.

Library and public-domain sources also describe him as a patent attorney and an editor of scientific magazines. Taken together, they portray a practical popularizer of science—someone who helped bring technical subjects within reach of curious readers in the early 1900s.