Scientific American Magazine, Vintage issues, 1901 thru' 1919. Sold per issue.

Description: Scientific American Magazine, Vintage issues, 1856 thru' 1899. Sold per issue. All issues are complete. Earliest issues contained only 8 pages, but most issues contain 16 pages, and a few issues contain more. These are large-format 11x15.5 inches, with only a few issues made smaller.Each issue ends with 1 or more pages of advertising, which can be charming. Price: $13. one issue; $23. two issues; $30. three issues.Shipping: Flat rate $3. for one or more. Condition:Most issues are Good+ to Very Good Condition. These issues were all previously bound together in a hard cover, so well-protected. Few or none show any wrinkling. All show small tears or chips on left edge where separated from a sewn binding. A minority show some small (typically less than 1 inch) edge tears...most taped up. A few show additional edge tears and/or some edge chipping...(as noted below).None show any marks, stains, sun-tanning, water-marks, or soiling....all are clean. Most show a fold line across the center from being read before they were bound, but fold line is faint to nearly invisible. Typical Content in each issue: (Full details of content for each issue can be found at the Scientific American Archives site on internet.--SOLD-- Scientific American: 1901, July 20: Newest Battleships: Duncan of British Navy and Peresviet, Oslabya & Pobieda of Russia., New Phonographone & a photographic sound-record, New Typesetting machine, Marconi's military auto for wireless telegraphy, First passenger turbine steamer: Edward VII, Seri: the most primitive American savages (2 pp), Results of West Virginia Flood.--SOLD-- Scientific American: 1901, Nov 16: Work on the Simplan tunnel, Moving lightship on roller ways will hawling tackle, New French battleship Charlemagne, 70 ton crane for Brooklyn Bridge, Dirigib le air ship balloons, At Auto show: 35 HP gasmobile, Steam driven Victoria, Power racer, 9 HP Surrey, Foster steam carriage, Wheel within a wheel, Work of the Teredo worm.Scientific American: 1901, Jan 12: Turning granite columns for Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New Vickers-Maxim rapid fire gun, Irrigation in Hawaiian Islands, Zodel flexible coupling, Machine to make bearings, Building 300 feet chimneys, Boiler explosion effects, Dredges for 40 ft. channels in NY harbor, Ball bearing worm gear, Thurston metal beater.Scientific American: 1901, March 16: Evolution of Adobe in house building, photo printing frame for bromide paper, Dock equipment for rapid transport of coal, Trade with Russia., Automobilism in agriculture: locomotive plows, etc.; Leaning towers, Excavations at Carthage (16 pp)--SOLD-- Scientific American: 1902, Sept 20: Damming of the Nile at Assouan: Navigation Locks, Excavations at Corinth, Semi-automatic piano player: bellows & rolls., Improved electric drying oven, A single-phase railway, The steam yacht Arrow—fastest in world., Velox—fastest destroyer afloat with speed 33 knots., the Nile Irrigation Works, Improved Knife, New form of Water Cooler, Adjustible stall for horses & cattle. (several small tears and wear on left binding edge...repair taping)--SOLD-- Scientific American: 1903, Sep. 26: Bessemer Copper process, Novel spiral bridge, Revolving lantern in lighthouses, Automobile News: Germans using cars in Army, Dangers of auto racing at 60 mph,j The hyposcope for low hidden shooting, Wireless telegraphy to communicate with trains, New Piedras Negras prehistoric site in Guatemala, Callitype...new way to use a typewriter.Scientific American: 1904, Jan 23: Design for Manhattan E. River bridge, Mammoth tooth, New electric sleeping car NJ to Ohio, New Japanese armored cruisers, On island of Jolo, Philippines and the Peace Treaty. (edge-chipping and tears)--SOLD-- Scientific American: 1904, April 30: Polishing 25 inch glass bowl, Soaring flight—learning from birds, German high-speed locomotive, Wolvin..largest freshwater steamship..USA, Home-made wireless telegraph, Manufacture of cut glass (2 pp), Monte Carlo auto/car/boat races: huge 100 hp racing engines.--SOLD-- Scientific American: 1905, Sept 30: 180-ton shear leggs in British Dockyard at Chatham, An early typewriter of 1876, Pie-making by machinery, Winners of power races on the Hudson, High speed steam yacht & power-boat races., Evolution of clam-shell dredgers in Calif., Making of a felt hat, Combined back & adhesion locomotive for South Africa, Littlefield and supposed artificial creation of life, New method of identifying criminals, Automobile maneuvers in the Army, New automatic electric circuit breaker, New method for preventing autos skidding, New projection system for lectures.Scientific American: 1905, March 4: Prospecting in the Rockies & Loading ore sacks, Compact marine producter – gas engine, California Railway steam boat, Meteorites, Mining in Nevada, Fire proof military barracks, Military cadet training, Motor ice-boat, Heat on an air-ship, 42 to 250 HP engine for boats, Curious fish of the deep.--SOLD-- Scientific American: 1906, July 21: Japanese battleships Katori & Kishima, Reclaiming marshlands in South USA, Auto racing in France & USA, Steam engine advances, Improved storage battery, Enlarging Erie Canal, Recent earthquake in California, Rapid firing gun Babette, New methods of Gold extraction, Tribes fighting Dutch in South Africa: Kafirs, Zulus (2 pp).Scientific American: 1908, Aug 22: Launching ships, Semi-arid 'dry farming' and machines, making dried milk, Recent French airplanes, 2 new dirigible models, Why do roots grow down and shoots grow up?Scientific American: 1908, Oct 17: microscope photos, ice-making machine, fossil discovery, new bicycle ambulance, cutting enormous diamond.Scientific American: 1908, Jan 18: freeing grounded ship, the Bleriot airplane, new types of dirigibles, airplane engines, Huichol Indians of Mexico, measuring speed of light, hydraulic placer mining.--SOLD-- Scientific American: 1908, Nov. 28: Passing of the whale, Rebuilding Paris Telegraph system, German auto-vending machine for postage stamps, Can precious stones be manufactured?, Cat-gut for surgery, Ascent of sap in plants, Quartz & mercury vapor lamp, 325 H.P. , Direct production of copper materials, Motion of solar system through space.--SOLD-- Scientific American (taped edge tears): 1908, March 14: US Military at West Point (4 pp), Motor ice-boat, Chester fastest Navy Cruiser, Recording voice onto smoked cylinder, Hospital for small animals, Chloroform before operations, Gurdan engraving machine, Big Index of Inventions.--SOLD-- Scientific American: Supplement: 1908, May 9: New German Battleship Wrsatz-Bayern, Modern Niter beds for Nitrates for gun powder, Best kind of coal for factories, A simple AC motor, Starting gasoline engines, New idea for internal combustion engine, Protecting vines & fruit trees, Migration of Norwegian Lemmings, Hydraulic mining in Calif., Mining: formation of mineral veins.Scientific American: 1909, Great waves made in the London Hippodrome, 2.5 oz. Apparatus for taking 8 pictures, Carrier pigeon with 2-lens camera, Moving pictures that sing and talk, Miniature railroads for country transport, Spring doors, Improved hinge, Whip socket, etc.Scientific American: 1910, March 26: Rapid Transit by Belt Conveyor, Briefs for new discovers in Aeronautics, Electricity, Science; Historical Trip report from Lowes largest dirigible, Vertical photography, Internal combustion water pump, New telephoto camera, Why are we right-handed?, Thermal treatment of steel ingots, Eggs of curious forms, Power attachment for bicycles, Portable bottle-capping machine.--SOLD-- Scientific American: 1910, Dec. 3: Deep sea fishing sounding devices, Latest news in Aeronautics & Electricity, Electric Hot Water supply system, Motor driven plow & Cultivator, Deep sea life, Scientific breeding of animals and plants, Noiseless typewriters, Heavens in December, Electrical Projection of images, New Farming inventions.Scientific American: 1910, Dec 3: Noiseless typewriter, Deep sea sounding devices, Mason's suspended platforms, Safety scaffolding, Electric Hot water supply, Motor driven plow and cultivator, Deep sea marine biology, Scientific breeding of plants and animals, Heavens in December, Electrical photo projection, Spectroscope for spark discharge, Experiments with carbolic acid gas.Scientific American: 1912, June 22: German battle-cruiser Moltke (2 pp), Comparative cost of electric truck vs horse-drawn, How Germans utilize waste, Mattullath & Wright aeroplanes compared, The Montessori teaching method (2 pp), Invention to auto-turn car headlights.--SOLD-- Scientific American: 1914, Aug 8: 40 ton lift in one scoop, How racing yachts are measured, Engineering & automobile inventions/ news, Sperry Gyroscope stabilizer, Graphic prediction of solar eclipses, Recent solar research, Kodak invention for writing notes on photos, Huge Tesla apparatus gives 7-foot spark, Wheel-less tractor, Raising a wrecked bridge.Scientific American: 1915, April 24: Art treasures from pyramid at Lahun (3 pp), Structure of typical automobile, Buying second hand autos, Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition II (Paraguay's primitive Indians), Wireless transmission of energy,Scientific American: 1916, Sept 2: Suspension bridge building in New Zealand, Light spectrum extend beyond Schuman region (2 pp), Monochrom. Photos of Jupiter & Saturn, Goldsmith work in Dark Ages, Bridge building in New Zealand, Spinning & weaving in early times, Gas & Oil exhausts, Giant Salamanders of Japan, Photogenic substance in Firefly, Fluxes for Oxy/Acet. Welding (2 pp).--SOLD-- Scientific American: Supplement: 1916, Feb 26: Notable Zoological parks (3 pp), Aerial torpedoes revived for present War, School-spread contagious diseases, Explosives: history & nature, Temperature inversions related to Frost, Metals in ancient Peruvian bronze,--SOLD-- Scientific American: Supplement: 1916, Sept 23: Royal Porcelain Factory at Berlin, Movements of the Moon, New method of repairing injured nerves, Modern service trucks for Elec., Telephone, Railways, Diving Spectacles, Under-water telescope, Ancient botany of Zuni Indians, Electrolytic Iron (2 pp), Weight and HP in motor vehicles, Metabolism of Insects, Proper use of Chemicals in the Laundry, Machine Guns (2 pp), Story of the Grinding Wheel.--SOLD-- Scientific American: 1919, May 17: Twisting Century plant fiber for twine, Chemical properties of rubber, Structure of sea shells, Growing Hops in Calif., Heating of air by volcanic gases, Direct current and the engine, German mining in Serbia during the war, Influence of Aluminum Ions on seed germination.

Price: 13 USD

Location: Rancho Cordova, California

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Shipping Cost: 3 USD